Green IT

The term ‘Green IT’ refers to a concept which gives idea to use the IT related equipment in an energy conservational and eco-friendly manner. The decreasing amount of resources and increasing cost has resulted in the evolution of this concept of ‘Green IT’ among the big organisation. World without IT can’t be imagined at present but our current practices of using IT equipment has resulted in some serious effects. Unnecessary energy consumption and more carbon production are the two major effects of our unmannered IT practices. According to the article, more energy is consumed when the offices are unoccupied as they are not switched off at the plug generally due to which it continuously draws electricity. This results to high electricity bill as well as decrement of life-span of the equipment. Moreover, when those equipments run they produce greenhouse gases which eventually affect the environment and aid the global warming. So, more the equipment are run more amount of green house gases are produced and the more green house gases are produced, more it’ll increases global warming. To reduce such problems we should implement the concepts of ‘Green IT’. The greatest Challenge of shrinking power consumption and yet still supports business scalability and performance is achieved through ‘Green IT’ concept. We can initiate the Green IT from our home too by switching off the pc at the plug while it is not used. Also we can use the gadgets approved by ‘energy star’.

The energy calculator helps us to calculate the total energy consumed throughout a year by the pc used by us. By knowing those facts, we can find the ways to save the power consumed and help to grow towards Green IT. By using the calculator we can find how much power is consumed by our pc while it is in on-mode, off-mode and sleep-mode.

I would reference the given article in following way:-

Anon, n.d. Green IT: keeping it simple, The Charted Institute for IT, [online]. Available at: http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/22412 [2012/03/05].

First week of second semester

          My first week was normal. In first week, I got to know about the modules which I am going to study during this, second, semester. There are four modules among which Personal Development for Computing is the module to which this blog is related. In first week, I studied about marking scheme for the module and also about the presentation which I will be giving during this semester which was of course a group presentation. I also got to know how to get notes for the module. In the workshop we were asked to give brief introduction about a skill among various skill listed.

         Among those seventeen skills I chose the thirteenth skill which was ‘the ability to deploy information retrieval skills’. In my view, this skill refers to one’s ability to fetch the relevant data and information from different databases, books, journals, surveys, etc for any kind of project using different techniques and tools. It is assumed to be a preliminary skill required for completion and success of any project as well as in all decision making even at home. Projects initiated by the team without this skill will mostly result to complete failure.

           As a computing student, I will be dealing with various projects, presentations, report writing, etc which makes me familiar to this skill. I will have to do research to obtain information and data required for any project from different sources by using different tools like search engines, books, etc, which may or may not be reliable. So while studying computing I will have to deal with such information gathering situation frequently which eventually will help me to develop my information retrieval skill. I also will also have developed the ability to analyze the gathered the information critically which is also the part of the skill ‘information retrieval skill’.

         For example, in an office a project is started by a team and a person without this skill got the task to gather all the information and data required for that project. In that case, the project’s outcome will not be the same as expected by the client and worst case the projects will fail. However, if the person had had the information retrieval skill, the result might have become better.

          In conclusion, this skill is a fundamental requirement for the success of a project, in decision making, in critical analysis of information and in selection of the right tools to fetch the relevant data from various sources.