For years, IT has been under intense pressure to implement an expanding number of new business services that are critical to the enterprise. To do so, IT staffs have typically added hundreds or even thousands of servers over the years, which has resulted in skyrocketing IT power consumption and energy costs. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Chris Rixon explains how companies can cut IT energy consumption and achieve other green IT objectives by using an approach based on business service management.
– Imagine
buying a case of soda for a party at your place Friday night. You
discover your refrigerator is full, so you buy another refrigerator and
put it in the garage to store the soda. Then you buy a few cases of
other drinks and another refrigerator. You buy some hors d’oeuvres and,
of course…