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The Greening of IT
160 How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

Client Requirements

■ Centralized IT infrastructure to replace costly and inefficient decentral-
ized infrastructure that proved to be increasingly unable to scale to grow-
ing demands for IT services.
■ Consolidation of systems in an enterprise-class data center.

Solution

■ Implementation of a Scalable Modular Data Center solution with
advanced InfraStruXure architecture from APC.
■ Standardized blade servers for virtualized Microsoft Windows and Linux
systems.
■ Savings on power and cooling costs; ability to provision new virtual
servers in less than one day.

Benefits
ptg
■ Reduced physical servers from 75 to 40.
■ 40 percent to 50 percent reduction in floor space requirements.
■ Reduced carbon footprint and reduced power consumption/cooling.

Bryant University Modular Data Center Design Details
Rhode Island’s Bryant University sees its fair share of snow and cold
weather. All that cold outside air is perfect to chill the liquid that cools the
university’s new server room in the basement of the John H. Chafee Center
for International Business. It’s just one way that Bryant’s IT department is
saving 20 percent to 30 percent on power consumption compared with a year
ago.
Art Gloster, Bryant’s VP of IT for the last five years, stated that before a
massive overhaul completed in 2007, the university had four data centers
scattered across campus, including server racks stuffed into closets with little
concern for backup and no thought for efficiency. Now Bryant’s consolidated,
virtualized, reconfigured, blade-based, and heavily automated data center is
an early example of green data center initiatives.