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All business energy use is now under scrutiny as the world moves towards greener, leaner living. The energy consumed by IT is fast becoming a real focus in the business community, representing an ethical issue for your key business decision makers and presenting a genuine opportunity to drive new IT business.

The datacentre in particular has been identified as the chief culprit in IT CO2 emissions, with an alarming set of statistics now surfacing about the energy consumed by large server and storage racks. With servers consuming up to 25 kilowatts of power per hour and even a small datacenter pumping out 44,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, the figures are compelling. Similarly, everyday IT devices such as networked printers, desktops and monitors are the fastest growing users of energy, accounting for 15% of office energy needs. These provide significant scope for IT end-user organisations to improve their green technology approach.

Of course a move towards simpler, leaner computing that makes better use of resources is not new. Cost and time pressures have been prodding IT strategy for some time now. With initiatives around consolidation, virtualisation and utilisation rates all paying into these business drivers and providing real scope to build new IT infrastructures that deliver adaptable, lowest-cost and ethically acceptable IT environments.

Bell Micro is investing in understanding the green IT debate. Not only to improve the way in which we conduct our business, but also to provide our partners with the business arguments
needed to leverage opportunity from the momentum surrounding environmentally friendly
technologies.

Please take some time to read our Green IT datasheet here, use this document to explore the issues and identify how you can build business around these issues.

For more information please contact the Partner Services Hotline on 01706 898 387 from the UK, 0160 15024 from Ireland or email partner.services@bellmicro.eu.