Leading executives, managers, and experts from SMBs and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that small and midsize businesses face.
Every piece of equipment in your business presents an opportunity to save power and cut costs. Emerson's Jack Pouchet explains how a few simple ideas and policies can lower your electricity bills -- and help the environment.
Large data centers present big opportunities for large enterprises to cut costs by reducing power use. But small and midsize businesses also can save power and money by implementing a few simple and effective ideas. Jack Pouchet, director of energy initiatives at Emerson Network Power, claims passionately about the fact that, with a little bit of effort, smaller businesses can see real power savings -- that translates into a healthier bottom line, and a healthier planet. Pouchet's approach involves understanding what is consuming your business' power, establishing company-wide policies on conserving power, and upgrading to high-efficiency equipment whenever feasible. Ensuring that businesses dispose of equipment properly is next on his list, right before ensuring that everyone understands that even in sleep mode your machine is still consuming power.
bMighty: How can small and midsize organizations reduce their power consumption if they don't have large data centers?
Jack Pouchet: Small and midsize businesses often don't have data centers, or there is a little data center space but lots of business space. They might have an all-purpose area or a small computer room, but there are things they can do differently. Two thirds of energy consumption power resides outside of the data center and small and midsize businesses can start by buying high-efficiency equipment.
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