Green IT: Becoming more energy efficient

Solutions for small and medium businesses

Solutions for medium business

Recently, IT discussions of cost savings have evolved to concerns over energy efficiency. Faced with the issue of an energy efficient data center, businesses are looking for ways to optimize their computing environments to the benefit of their bottom line and our planet. IBM believes the two efforts are highly complementary.

The advantage

IBM and IBM Business Partners have solutions that can help make your IT infrastructure energy efficient.

Our solutions will help you meet the following challenges:

Continued rise of overall energy costs and demand
Cost of air conditioning to cool data centers or computer rooms
Concern over power surges and shortages affecting business
Government-imposed levies on carbon production and regulations on power consumption and waste
Increasing drive towards centralized data centers
Too many servers that are partially used or not used to capacity
Need for an environmentally safe way to dispose of old software or hardware

Our energy efficient solutions are based on proven technologies utilized by IBM and its customers to realize immediate, tangible return on investments through implementation of more efficient IT practices. By focusing on energy efficiency within your IT department or organization, you can lower your overall energy expenses and optimize your existing server capacities to free up budget for business-critical solutions. And you get to do your part in preserving resources for the greater good.

Benefits

Through the adoption of energy efficient and “green” practices, you can:

Reduce energy costs
Regain power and cooling capacity
Reach additional server capacity
Recapture resiliency
Recycle end-of-life equipment

Next steps

Learn more about the broad range of our energy efficient solutions by contacting an IBM Business Solution Specialist to discuss which solution best matches your business needs. Or, click on one of the links below.

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