Profit from green computing

How can the financial services community not only benefit, but financially profit from it?

At the heart of Green Computing is reuse. IT refurbishment is the implementation of Green Computing in commercial practice. Now before you start thinking of dusty old servers that have fallen off the back of a lorry somewhere in the east end of London, think again. IT refurbishment is essentially ‘gently used’ hardware and communications technology that has been cleaned, tested, repackaged, and in some cases had parts replaced, to restore it to a quality condition. The standard of refurbishment is so high that in most cases, manufacturers will recertify it. In short, IT refurbishment enables you to literally increase the yield and useful life of your company’s IT investment and improve overall IT asset manageability. Fulfilment of legal requirements and corporate social responsibility, combined with recognition of asset value and bottom line revenue is fueling reuse and refurbishment.


Another method to profit is avoiding forced upgrades and extend the life of your existing systems.  Every manufacturer will update their operating system or hardware at one point or another, often pushing upgrades long before the equipment has reached the end of its life, and in many cases long before you, the customer, are ready to migrate. In some instances, manufacturers can’t or won’t supply the required equipment in your existing infrastructure.

For example, you may have six servers and require a seventh one, however, the manufacturer tells you it is only possible to get the latest version of that server with a new and different specification and a newer version of the operating system. This disrupts the homogeneity of your existing environment, forcing you to upgrade before you’re ready. Refurbished IT enables you to custom order quality refurbished equipment at price points that just aren’t available elsewhere, as well as sell (yes, sell for money) your outgoing existing equipment for profit.

On the buy side, this could be equipment you want to purchase that is designated for tasks which don’t require the very latest hardware, such as development, testing, maintenance, building resources such as a call centre or back up system, or simply to make an addition a n existing homogenized infrastructure. Just because the manufacturer no longer supports a particular platform doesn’t mean it’s old. You might have purchased it just six months ago. Being ‘lifecycle aware’ enables you to break the cycle of vendor lock in, yet still access the best brands with full assurance and reliability.

Likewise, companies simply do not need to buy the brand new latest 64 bit system optimised for the most up-to-date processes. There are only a handful of mission critical applications that will require the very latest specification. The vast majority of applications do not. These include: ‘Just in Case’ and Near Line storage, databases that need to be maintained for compliance purposes, software development and proof of concept testing, data centres, enterprise applications and essentially anywhere the business doesn’t require the absolute latest computing power.

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Green Computing from http://www.squidoo.com/green-pc


Clean up your computing http://www.squidoo.com/Green-Computing

Anuradha Shukla(December 1,2009) Going Green is Profitable from http://www.biztechreport.com/story/311-going-green-profitable