Innovative Approaches To Green It

摘要

Green IT comes in many different forms. Computer Weekly spoke to five companies that took different approaches to find how they helped to green their IT operations. Last year, IT services firm Elinia decided to move to a more efficient computing facility, and ended up powering its servers by burning wood chips. The firm, which provides hosted applications and other managed services for customers, teamed up with datacentre specialist Equinix to use its facility in Slough. Equinix's Slough-based datacentre is powered by a converted power plant that burns wood chips, paper cubes and rice husks, says James Carnie, technical architect at Elinia. "We put our name down and were lucky enough to be one of the first four to take space in the building." The firm, which moved into the facility last November, started serving customers in February. Not only does the clean power reduce Elinia's carbon emissions, but more sophisticated infrastructure in the facility means the firm can bill power back to customers individually. Previously, customers paid a flat fee for power.