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Green ICT Case Study

Situation

  • Energy use accounts for 50% of Corporation operations costs in 8 million square feet of data center space worldwide

Solution: “Project Big Green”

  • Use virtualservers to make hardware
    do more without requiring additional energy

  • Use cooling only when needed

  • Optimize data center airflow with thermal engineering and 3-D modeling

Results

  • They will double its data center capacity by end of 2010, without increasing energy usage

  • Equivalent to saving 5 billion kilowatt-hours per year

Source: http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;67150847, 2007;
Cisco IBSG, 2008