CIO Eyes Only: One More Case for Green IT -- Part I

by Deborah Grove

Today, the skill set required to upgrade data center energy efficiency echoes the very same knowledge required to rapidly downsize IT operations during an energy emergency. As a data center manager, do you have that skill set? If you were tasked with developing a plan in a few weeks to lower IT power consumption by 50% as quickly as possible, could you write a plan while minimally affecting operations? What would you do first, second, and third?

In this Executive Update, the first of two in a series on green IT,1 I will discuss the need for being prepared for a looming crisis event in the data center of your company.