TheBusiness Performance Management (BPM) Forumhas launched the Lean & Green initiative to
promotegreen datacentresamong
CIOs.
The Lean & Green programme is designed to "create a body of
intellectual capital around the issues and opportunities presented
by green computing, along with ways to address the accelerating
energy demands and rampant waste of the datacentre, and methods to
increase IT yield and data productivity", said the BPM Forum.
Donovan Neale-May, executive director of the BPM Forum, said,
"Lean & Green will examine all facets of this critical issue of
environmental computing, foster communication, and disseminate
reliable information that executives need to make a positive impact
on their companies and on the environment."
Underpinning the initiative is a white paper that offers a
discussion of current challenges and the resources available to
address them: Lean & Green-Taming the Data Center Colossus: How
to Achieve Dramatic Environmental and Business Benefits.
This
brief
reveals the datacentre's rapidly expanding power consumption and
its potential consequences if unchecked.
The paper presents a number of computing alternatives for
lowering power consumption even with current systems, along with
evaluating innovative power-sparing architectures and calculating
their business benefits.
The Lean & Green programme has also commissioned a
survey to question IT professionals over the way forward on
green datacentres.