Cybernomics

Toronto, August 27, 2007 – Virtualization and other Green IT initiatives ensure that energy, resources, space and money are conserved, which means lowered costs for hardware and IT support time, more efficient application of IT to business and therefore decreased energy use and waste.

In 2006, Cybernomics began incorporating a new technology called virtualization into its standard practices to reduce the amount of resource and energy use in its datacenter and offices. 2007 has seen many of their clients incorporate the same technology to go green for 3 essential reasons:

• It saves money by decreasing hardware and overall IT support costs
• It increases uptime and improves business continuity
• It actually helps the environment by reducing energy, raw materials and waste

Green IT: Transforming the way we use technology
Green IT is transforming the way we use technology to cut down on wastes, eliminate unnecessary energy use and therefore help the environment. Green IT initiatives can span from simply nixing your screensaver to using Virtualization technology to make your servers run 4 times as efficiently.
As with any industry, Going Green in IT has to apply to the whole process… that means only when manufacturers, software companies, IT companies and users are all in sync, can we really start to make progress.

Here are some common Green IT goals:
1. Efficiently running datacenters with virtualized servers to lower energy consumption
2. Sending software electronically to cut down on packaging
3. The promotion of teleconferencing and telecommuting to cut down on transportation to work
4. Using natural light in the office when possible as opposed to indoor lighting
5. Cutting down on excess printing to stop the waste of paper
6. Using rechargeable batteries for computer and office peripherals
7. Pooling IT resources within your company instead of assigning laptops and peripherals to every single person
8. Accessing datacenter servers remotely so temperatures there remain stable and air conditioners aren’t overworked
Virtualization: The basis of Green IT
Virtualization enables numerous older computers to be replaced by a smaller amount of newer “virtual” computers. These “virtual” computers are able to operate as if they are 2 or more physically different computers; however they are housed in only one physical machine.
Simply put, virtualization works like this: imagine that a computer is an apple. In the old days, people would carry one apple in their hand, until someone invented the basket. A bunch of apples could be put into one basket. Those apples in the basket are still individual apples, but they are being carried in one container. This is the essence of virtualization.

Business Benefits
• Save on hardware: With virtualization, we’re able to reduce computers by a 4:1 ratio (although, we’re even able to go up to 8:1), which is a 75% reduction in physical machines

• Save on space: If you host servers at a datacenter or at your office, it can mean saving on space, and space is money

• Save on upkeep: Virtualized machines are easier to maintain and easier to support. If one fails, we can easily and virtually “move” the information, applications and data from that server to a new one – almost instantaneously

• Give “legacy” applications a new life: “Move” older operating systems and older applications with all configurations intact, to a new virtualized machine and escape the hardware cycle

• Redundancy without additional hardware: Have a dedicated redundant machine without having to buy another entire server, which can cost from $2,000 to $20,000 or more depending on your requirements

• Increase uptime: In the case of a hardware problem or failure, the virtual computers can be moved to any other suitable computer that is available and brought back on-line, mitigating business losses from being down
• Better backups = better disaster recovery: Virtualization makes it easier to backup an entire company’s infrastructure and store it off-site, and virtual computers can even be transmitted over the internet and be brought on-line in another office, city or even another country

Environmental Benefits
With the 4:1 ratio as a baseline, the environmental rewards include:
• 50% to 75% reduction in electricity requirements
• 75% reduction in metals such as aluminium, steel, gold, copper and tantalum
• 75% reduction in plastics, including toxic plastics like PVC
• 75% reduction in hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals used in the manufacturing process
• Reduction in heat output, which means a reduction in air-conditioner requirements and lowered electrical requirements
• 75% reduction in the volume of materials going into garbage dumps or recycling programs

Baudry Cybernomics Corporation is a Professional IT services firm based in Toronto that has specialized in IT outsourcing and out-tasking for 15 years. Our services comprise the following areas of excellence: Consulting, IT Management/Support, Infrastructure Services and Internet Publishing/Content Management.