Leading executives, managers, and experts from small and midsize businesses and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that SMBs face.
Going green can be as simple as switching to energy-efficient light bulbs to virtualizing your hardware, networks, storage, and applications. But where to start? And will your company get something out of green IT, other than the satisfaction of helping preserve the planet? bMighty talked to Ron Bednar, the manager of strategic marketing in the Liebert products business of Emerson Network Power about his thoughts on green IT at small and midsize companies.
bMighty: What are some green IT practices that small and midsize companies can easily adopt?
Ron Bednar: There are quite a few. No. 1 is you can implement best practices within data centers and server rooms. You can optimize the air flow, you can use blanking panels -- which, if you have a rack of servers, you can use blanking panels in those racks where there aren't servers, and they help optimize the servers -- and you can look at hot aisles and cold aisles. [Cold aisle containment allows cooling units to run at reduced capacity to achieve ideal cooling conditions and save energy costs. This tactic is more efficient and effective than hot aisle containment systems and offers a better environment for data center personnel.]
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