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Environmentally Sustainable IT. Una Du Noyer 20 th February 2008. Agenda. The Drivers for Sustainable IT The challenges How to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption associated with building and running the IT estate? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Environmentally Sustainable IT
Una Du Noyer20th February 2008
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Agenda
The Drivers for Sustainable IT
The challenges • How to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption
associated with building and running the IT estate?• How to manage the ever-increasing demand for computer systems
and its impact on the natural resources required to create them and to dispose of them?
• How to use IT to minimise wastage of other assets and resources that are used within an organisation?
• How to support the enterprise (suppliers, partners, workforce and customers) in a globalised economy, to make more efficient use of their time, resources and expertise, while minimising the impact on the environment?
Summary
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Drivers for Sustainable IT
Environmental - ‘[sustainability]…relates to the protection of natural capital, including water, land, air, minerals and ecosystem services’
Encyclopaedia of Global Environmental Change, Robert Goodland, World Bank, “Sustainability: Human, Social, Economic and Environmental”, 2002
Financial – Data Centre costs spiralling year on year Broadgroup 2006: energy costs of running a corporate UK data centre is currently about
£5.3m a year, this figure is set to double to £11m over the next five years (2006)
Regulatory – EU and local government initiatives on climate change
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Climate Change Action Plans
Risk – Ability to Grow Data Centre Footprint at Current Rate while Maintaining Required Energy Levels
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1 Reducing Carbon Footprint and Energy Utilisation
Data Centre efficienciesGeography Locality to sustainable power, users,
commsResilience Active / Active sites, follow-the-sunCooling HVAC efficiency, air-flow tuning, sensorsPower PDU and PSU efficiencyRacking Layout, blanking, device density, PDUsTechnology Low-voltage, variable speed
Desktop Efficiencies• Thin client Solid-state thin-client devices to reduce
desktop power, cooling and maintenance requirements
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2 Managing the IT Lifecycle from Supply to Disposal
Maximising utilisation of IT Estate:• Virtualisation, consolidation,• Information lifecycle management
Procurement Policies• Technology and asset life-cycle• Extended life cycles – user devices from 3 > 4-5 years (dual core)• License implications on reuse / repurpose / disposal
Legislative compliance & sustainable supply chains• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Regulations
PVC and BFR strategy, and product content• Sustainable (fair and safe) supply-chains
Auditable ‘take-back’, remanufacture, recycling, charitable reuse• Disposal as last resort – hard-disk ‘scrubbing’ vs destruction (data protection)• Consumables – cartridges, paper-type, batteries, cables• Minimised packaging and removal
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3 Using IT to preserve other assets
Using RF-ID Tags and Real-time location systems to track assets e.g. pallets, containers, and reduce waste
Using remote monitoring, control and calibration systems e.g. monitoring vibration levels in oil tankers, condition of underground pipelines
Reducing paper consumption through collaboration systems, and scanning technologies
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4 Supporting globalisationwhile minimising travel
Telepresence: reducing travel through full size videoconferencing
Collaboration systems: document collaboration, “smart boards”, Web 2.0 and 3.0
Virtual worlds for collaboration
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Summary
A Sustainable IT strategy must be incorporated into a Corporate Social Responsibility programme and have board-level sponsorship
It should address a range of possibilities, not just carbon emissions, including:
• Energy consumption and Data Centre footprint• Managing the IT Lifecycle from Supply to Disposal• Using IT to effectively manage other assets• Supporting globalisation while minimising travel
Regulatory and financial drivers
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Lifecycle Stages
Resources Utilised
Lifecycle Stages
Supply Operate Retire
Energy Raw material extraction Manufacturing Transport to operations base
Power for equipment operations. Power for cooling
Transport to recycle or landfill centres Power for recycling equipment
Materials Raw material Toxic materials Rare materials Recycled & recyclable Sustainable materials
Consumables (e.g. printer cartridges, paper)
Equipment (servers, PCs, laptops) Buildings
Recycle Re-use Re-purpose Upgrade & scale not rip and replace.
People Manpower to produce Strategy development
FTE ratios Manpower to de-commission, re-use or re-cycle