Most data center managers haven't noticed the steady rise in costs associated with cooling and power. Simultaneously, most organization are not aware of their carbon footprint and lack the know-how to source products and services designed to lower this footprint.

Green data centers don't just save energy; they also reduce the need for expensive infrastructure upgrades to deal with increased power and cooling demands. Organizations must start to take the next step and are looking at the entire data center from an environmental perspective.

As the IT industry reaches a new level of maturity, optimization with energy cost reduction becomes a priority. Yet, most organizations have very little guidance on how you can take action to control energy consumption in their data centers. More importantly, IT organizations lack the planning, sourcing, consolidation, and decommissioning guidelines drive a greener data center.

Our Green IT Roadmap provides you with the required foundation on which to build a greener data center. The roadmap includes Best Practices of data center operations such as:

• Sourcing sustainable Green IT products                                    
• Decommissioning and recycling best practices                        
• Virtualization and Consolidation across the Enterprise                        
• Resource Management                                                                                    
• Next-Generation Data Centers using Private Cloud                                                             
• Next-Generation Disaster Recovery for reduction of energy consumption