Green IT
Green IT focuses on the acquisition of new green technology and ways to make legacy environments, particularly data centers, more environmentally palatable. Windward leverages:
- Extensive knowledge base of FAR and EPEAT Green IT regulations
- Green IT system design, implementation and support for networks and systems
- Greening Legacy Infrastructure through virtualization, data center consolidation and blade technologies
Virtualization is accomplished by allocating resources computing environments. This includes:
- Virtualization of Platforms, separates platform resources from operating systems
- Virtualization of Resources, specific system resources are virtualized, such as storage volumes
- Virtualization of Applications, applications are hosted on separate hardware/software
The Greening effect of virtualization is to reduce and consolidate physical hardware resources and software resources across the environment.
| “Under the Federal Acquisition Register (FAR), we must purchase 95% or higher EPEAT registered products. But the lack of standards causes us to be reluctant in compliance.” |
Through detailed analysis, Windward’s extensive experience with the EPEAT tool can identify and recommend proved established EPEAT registered products and services. |
| “We need to comply with the Green IT initiatives, but our current budget will not permit a total purchase of EPEAT registered products. We need alternatives.” |
Windward helps clients design custom services and configurations by analyzing the client’s current processes and defining blade technology and utilizing virtualization to achieve Green IT initiatives. |
| “Our datacenter is mushrooming out of control. We keep adding servers as new system applications are acquired.” |
Through detailed analysis, Windward’s experience virtualization application hosting can be distributed over existing infrastructure provides the client with a more efficient operation. |
| “Our datacenter energy costs are sky rocketing. This is partly due to rising energy costs, but there must be a way to economize our datacenter.” |
Datacenters require air conditioning 24X7. This can be a significant energy cost for any client. Windward, through virtualization initiatives, can consolidate datacenters and reduce energy costs. |