Green IT

WHAT EXACTLY IS GREEN IT???

Green IT has nothing to do with your grass, the country of Ireland, or any leprochauns you may be privy too. We live in a world today where we are trying to be enviornmentally responsible as well as conscientous. Green IT is alot more than that. By practicing Green IT you can actually save yourself quite a bit of money in places where you did not suspect.

Green Chip

Green IT or green computing is the study and practice of using your computer resources with efficiency. Think of it in comparision to your electornics at home (which computing can fall under), your electronics run on electricity. They consume energy and if allowed can consume quite a bit.

Take away all the enviornmental jargon and the concept of green computing is clear. How do I take my computers, network equipment, printers, and everything that I own and make them operate so that they use less power and they are more efficient? There are two short web videos in the middle of page. Click on them to get a general idea of the different sides of Green computing and what it is, and how it can benefit you. SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY AND LOWER THAT BILL.

TOP REASONS TO GO GREEN

1. Money. It saves you money. That alone should be the most prominent and important reason. Change the way you use your IT investment and save money in the long-term.

2. Sustained growth requires sustained operation. The average pc consumes 588 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, and wasts almost 400 kWh of that by running at full power when not in use. As your company grows you need to get control over your equipment. Controlling the energy used is an important advantage.

3. Energy efficient IT is high performance. Your equipment can account for the majority of your power consumption. Consolidiating your older enviornment into a virtual enviorment and remote clients will make you more efficient in terms both energy and productivity.

4. Inspire others. When your colleagues see how you have strategically reduced your power consumption they will follow suit. Not only will you be looked upon as a savior of the enviornment but you will have made the CEO of your look utility company very sad.

5. By going green you change the basic strategy of how you operate. You are long held to the risks of your electric company failing. Setting up a virtual office, having your data off site, yet accessible. Power failures be dammned.

6. Its not expensive and you save money. See reason one.

GREEN IT SOLUTIONS

Green Help

What can 3Connected do for company to help me be green and save some money?

At 3Connected we excel in Green IT because we know the value of the dollar. We have built systems which adhere to strict green computing standards. This sounds all elaborate and all but it really isn't. What 3Connected can do is go to your site, evaluate what you have, and construct a solution to save you money on your electrical bill. Your equipment need not be new.

Maybe you have a fleet of older pcs, perhaps your not ready to upgrade. Just because your equipment is older does not mean you can't reap a huge savings from it. We can take what you have and reduce your energy costs while still mainting your efficiency and exploiting your current systems for everything you can do with it.

If it was only as simple as merely powering off all your equipment, however we can show you how to make it simple.One interesting thing that we can also try is virtualization. What is that you may ask? Lets say you have 4 old machines that are your servers, you can hear them down the block because the fans in the power unit just scream, they are so big and old. We can take those four machines and combine them into one saving you money and a headache.

Below is just an example of what can be done. Go to the contact page and schedule a consultation to see how we can help you save money yearly on your IT investment.

Take your current hardware and make it more energy efficient using its builtin software (BIOS).
Use power management on all devices, even on printers and the smallest of devices.
Use virtualization technology whenever possible
Have servers with multiple hard drives runnin all over the place. What about consolidating them into one storage unit.
Encourage telecomuting. The more virtual your office is the less real estate space you need. Visit our virtual office section to learn more.
Take all that paper and scan it, create your paperless office. Let us help you with a document management sytem.
Recycle that old equipment
Keep those monitors efficiently tune other wise you will have a very short life for them.

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