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

Chapter Summary and Conclusions

From the preceding discussion on collaboration for green IT, the fol-
lowing conclusions can be reached:

■ IT vendors have started to offer a significant set of integrated hardware,
software, and services offerings to help customers improve their energy-
management initiatives.
■ Industry organizations are establishing efficiency metrics at the server
and data center level to integrate facilities and IT resources.
■ The EPA is establishing efficiency metrics at the server level as an exten-
sion to its ENERGY STAR workstation metrics.
■ Many IT companies are addressing the situation from end to end: at the
servers end through power management features, and at the data centers
end through integrated IT/facilities modular solutions.
■ The required collaboration for green IT is a part of the overall global col-
laboration required to solve the climate crisis.
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Success for global green IT depends on the continued collaboration
among groups within your company, among technology vendors, data
center design and build businesses, energy utilities, governments, and
organizations such as The Green Grid and the Uptime Institute. In short,
almost everyone can collaborate on green IT, because almost everyone is a
user of IT through PCs, the Internet, cell phones, and so on.