Recycle data centers, preaches Dell
Dell believes that customers do not necessarily need to build new data centers, and is now offering to show customers how to optimise their existing ones to extend their life span.
Dell says that its expertise in this area came about two years ago, when it discovered it had reached the capacity limits of its two data centers (DCs) in Austin Texas. Rather than going to the expense of simply building a new data centre, the company instead looked at whether it was possible to squeeze more life out of its existing DCs.
"Michael Dell looks at building new buildings in order to make money, and not making money in order to build buildings," explained Rick Becker, VP, Software and Solutions Enterprise Product Group at Dell.
Becker was one of the men charged with overseeing the redevelopment of Dell's data centre resources. Dell estimates that its own data centre optimisation has internally reduced costs by more than $29 million (£19.6 million).
"When we optimised our own data centers, we learnt a lot of lessons," Becker told Techworld. "And now we want to share these lessons with our customers," he added. To this end, Dell is offering customers a data centre optimisation service.
Alongside the service, Dell is offering some simple advice, in line with the company's established policy of simplifying IT. This includes the decommissioning old servers, consolidate existing equipment; virtualise as much as possible, and re-equipping with new kit in order to take advantage of much better energy efficient technology.
On the consolidation point, Dell points out that many companies have unnecessary servers running in their DCs, legacy of past projects, but which are not shut down because managers don't know what they are used for.
Becker said that with a 70 percent server volume reduction, coupled with an equipment refresh with energy efficient products, a typical data centre would see 50 to 70 percent less energy use.
Becker also makes it clear that he is also a big fan of virtualisation, and believes that this is one of the most important ways for companies to reduce their server sprawl and optimise their server resources. "At Dell in 2006, we only had 543 virtual machines. Now the number is over 5,000," he said.
"We will also ask customers to raise the temperature of their data centers," said Becker, pointing to the fact that most data centers are currently too cool.
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Recycle Data Centers
Computer Buyback and Recycling Programs attempt to reduce the amount of electronics in landfills by refurbishing for further use or by safely recycling it. Recycling and buyback programs offer customers a simple way to receive cash for their unwanted technology equipment or, if there is no value, recycle it.There are effective solutions that make it easy for customers to go green. A Computer Buyback and Recycling Program is an example of reducing environmental impact by providing a convenient way for customers to responsibly recycle data center equipment. Environmentally, RICOM is committed to offering products and services that are environmentally practical throughout their life cycles.
Remanufacture and reuse is only one component of the environmental lifecycle. A complete approach to the environment considers all aspects of a product's lifecycle and footprint of a product. Systems that can be upgraded using refurbished components extend the end date of their use. Refurbished components in new products and packaging are an alternative of cost savings.
Hardware asset recovery has value with used equipment Trade-in/trade-up, donation and off lease programs. Buying refurbished technology, established end of life recycling programs is green and good business. New virtualized data center solutions as well as energy star certified products cuts power costs, and consolidates data center real estate. Recycling computers rather than depositing them in landfills or shipping them off for other nations has risk of sensitive data. Disk data sanitation services offers a 3X overwrite process and is considered standard in the industry providing adequate protection against confidential information from being retrievable. According to IBM’s survey, 90% of healthcare service industry respondents perform sanitization of hard drives internally, and only 5% rely on a third party.
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