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].