This month’s theme: Green IT

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It seems everything is turning green these days, and not only because it’s spring. In particular, the world of information and communications technology (ICT) has been inundated with green messages, but it’s been hard to get a handle on what’s for real, and what’s hot air. In this issue of Telemanagement we face the facts head on, lending a critical eye to greenwashing, while also giving kudos where kudos are due.

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One of the growing challenges for many campuses around the world is how to accommodate the power and cooling requirements of cyber-infrastructure facilities such as high performance computers (HPC) and storage facilities. Increasingly, the costs of the bricks and mortar, power and cooling to house these facilities significantly outweigh costs of the actual cyber-infrastructure equipment.

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As computing becomes pervasive, and the Internet becomes the platform of choice, data centres are handling heavier and heavier processing loads. As a result, power demands in data centres are increasing dramatically, and the rising cost of energy and increased environmental awareness have put pressure on companies to increase efficiencies. Server virtualization, a technology that dramatically increases utilization rates, does just that.

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Enterprises are being assaulted by a bewildering array of new and old IT products suddenly purporting to be green and good for the planet. "Many new green features are the same features that weren’t green before, so how come they’re green now?" says Drue Reeves, VP of research at the Burton Group, a Midvale, UT-based IT consultancy.

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It’s getting easier to be green. Take the problem of disposing of obsolete or unwanted phones and other telecommunications gear. A decade ago, few people thought much about it. Like outdated computers and other office equipment, it was junk. It went into a dumpster or someone hauled it away. Today that’s changing.

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In not so many words, Bell Canada has told its wholesale ISP customers that if they don’t like its "traffic management" policies, they can find other ways to provide Internet service to their retail customers.

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