Greener IT seeds...

Several IT companies including mine are taking up the initiatives towards Going Green. I have already written about some of it 3 weeks back. Here I present two Technologies which really will and are changing the way companies worked.
Virtualization: Gartner says the number of virtualized machines will be about four million by 2009, from just 540,000+ in year 2006. IT organizations have moved a foot towards initiatives to virtualize their enterprise infrastructures. It is an effort not only to reduce costs and improve efficiency but also reduce energy consumption. Server virtualization is and will be a significant part of “Green” IT initiative. It not only helps reduce server sprawl, but it also provides the ability to respond to the changing business .
All said but done, until the IT company thinks about changing to virtualization, it must completely understand and identify virtualization needs. It must look into the full life-cycle of virtualization applicable to data center, taking aspects of planning, look into configuration management to management of resources evaluating all virtual and physical server technologies available. To know more you can refer "Green Search" box with Keywords Wikipedia + Virtualization. Virtual infrastructure means lesser energy and more usability.
Optical Circuits + Fiber Transmission: One of the already available commercially viable solution to reduce electricity consumption in my view is Optical fibers. If one looks at todays networks in an organization, they are webs of traditional conductive wires sprawling around all the floors and rooms of the building. More the length of these wires more signal boosting is required and more the loss of energy. The servers which manage the networks are also power hungry and need to be fed at all instances 24x7x52. If we go by the amount of wires used by a Boeing aircraft to manage sophisticated systems, it would weigh 1/6 of the aircraft, but Optical fibers could reduce it by half the weight and reduce energy consumptions too. A traditional processor chip is the most energy hungry component of a computer and needs cooling devices which also gulp energy. The optical chips typically work at an ideal near zero wattage points. IBM had designed chips with Data capacity of 160gb, and others with Data rate of similar ranges. It is though in a research state but once done should transform the way devices works and uses energy. Traditionally no one has included using Optical circuits/ fibers as a part of Green Initiative, I do really believe it will be.
Hope we get our computing and networks done the optical way... or at-least get them Virtualized :)...

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