Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Carbon emissions

This implies that Unites States would be able to save 7,439 tonnes of carbon emissions every year on deployment of iipmProject Green! IBM is presently rescuing Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), which is estimating an 80% reduction in its energy use by shifting to IBM ‘System p servers’. “We are providing clients, the IBM action plan to make their data centres fully utilised and energy efficient,” says Mike Daniels, senior VP, IBM Global Technology Services. Though IBM might be promoting it as a Green initiative, the fact is that the whole Project Green of IBM targets to make a lot of money by helping the corporate data centres (suffering from energy constraints) with its high efficiency servers. According to analyst firm IDC, roughly 50 cents is spent on energy for every dollar spent on the hardware.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative