Green computing, simply defined, is the practice of efficient and eco-friendly computing resources with minimal or no impact to the environment and overall reduction of your companies carbon footprint. These practices include consideration in the implementation of energy efficient central processing units, servers and peripheral devices, such as printers and monitors.
NIC offers technical guidance that will allow your business to implement a plan to adopt green computing technologies. This process beings with an inspection of your existing computers. Many out of date computers utilize technology that consumes energy at alarming rates. Something as simple as updating your CRT (cathode-ray-tube) monitors to new LCD (liquid-crystal-display) monitors can dramatically lower your energy consumption and carbon foot print.
Green computing begins with changing the way you look at your office and adopting policies that will allow for compliance and success. NIC can help you implement green computing solutions by helping you develop a holistic plan of action for developing a environmentally sustainable architecture that leverages technologies, processes and straggles geared toward reduction of your business' carbon footprint.
This process includes:
We understand that getting everyone on board to creating a green computing environment will produce one-time win scenarios. However it is our sentiment to help you develop a continuous strategy of reducing energy consumption and reducing your GHG impact. One approach that we may consider in this process is Virtualization.
NIC's green computing specialists will design a virtualization maturity plan designed to move your onsite hardware, components and processes, when applicable, into a virtual environment. This process is defined by establishing levels of virtualization, which are defined as follows:
NIC's goal to help you redefine an increasingly scare and expensive resource, energy. The implementation of these strategies will redefine your business, your employees, reduce GHG and turn your energy consuming nightmare into a green computing dream.