Ten Surprising Facts about Green IT

Green IT countsToday, IT equipment accounts for

around two to four percent of global

carbon emissions - similar to the

aviation industry. With increasing

consumption, IT could soon over-

take air travel as a polluter.

This is why Fujitsu Siemens

Computers has been focused on

environmental care

for the last 20 years. These

efforts brought to market the

world’s first green PC back in

1993 and have reduced the

energy needed to build a PC by

60 percent in the last seven

years.

No clue on powerHowever, less than one in three IT

departments actually know their

power consumption.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is

helping companies by offering

Green IT consulting services for

end-to-end data center optimi-

zation, enabling organizations to

first understand their power

consumption and then reduce it.

One example: the cataloguing of

energy flows or the analysis of

operating risks.

A weighty problemIt takes ten times the weight of a PC

in chemicals and fossil fuels to make

one.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is

setting the IT industry’s highest

standards with

its new Green IT label reflecting

the company's entire green

lifecycle approach - from

environmental conscious

development and production,

reduced energy consumption and

up to 99 percent recyclability at

end-of-life.

A load of junkAs much as one million tons

of electronic equipment becomes

obsolete each year.

Pioneering IT equipment recy-

cling, Fujitsu Siemens Computers

opened its own recycling center

some 20 years ago. Today these

facilities recycle 98 percent of

returned computer materials and

components, exceeding the legal

standards for disposal more than

10 fold.

Staying coolSpending on power and cooling has

almost trebled since 1996. Now, a

typical IT department spends around

50 cents of every dollar on power

and cooling and this keeps on

growing…

Placing a major focus on the

energy efficiency of its products,

Fujitsu Siemens Computers was

the first vendor to introduce a

server capable of handling more

than 1,000 operations per Watt,

and introduced

the world’s most energy-efficient server

, drawing 40 percent less power

than a standard server.

Powering costsBy 2009, the price of energy will be

the second-highest cost after equip-

ment in data center operating costs.

Focusing on Dynamic

Infrastruc-tures, Fujitsu Siemens

Computers is driving towards

reduced data center energy

consumption, crea-ting flexible,

shared pools of computing

resources.

Virtualization concepts result in

the use of fewer physical

systems, saving both operational

energy and new manufacturing

resources delivering energy

savings of more than 70 percent.

No power neededA single energy-efficient PC with

activated power-saving functions can

save up to half a ton of CO2 per

year.

Innovative technologies for mana-

ging IT equipment power usage

have been pioneered by Fujitsu

Siemens Computers: With inno-

vations such as the Eco-Button

reducing notebook system power

with power management enabled

by default – or the

Zero-Watt monitor and PC, which

need no power at all in stand-by-

mode.

Sleep on it85 percent of the electricity that

powers PCs goes to waste as they

lie idle.

Through standardized power-

saving features as default, pro-

ducts waste less power – when in

use and when idle. An increa-

singly-popular alternative is for

example the Virtual Workplace

solution from Fujitsu Siemens

Computers: Thin clients replace a

desktop with a terminal

connected to centralized

resources – and use 50 percent

less power.

Green pays offMost energy-saving programs in IT

will pay for themselves in the long

run.

A perfect example is the range

of energy-efficient PRIMERGY

industry-standard servers from

Fujitsu Siemens Computers.

Through reduced power con-

sumption, these energy-efficient

servers save around € 200 a year

in power consumption in compa-

rison to regular servers delivering

a return on investment in less

than two years.

Turn it offAlmost a third of servers are doing

almost nothing except consuming

energy.

Turning off unused IT equipment

such as servers is also an option.

Power control tools for servers

and clients from Fujitsu Siemens

Computers turn equipment off

when not required, and power

them up again ready for when

they are needed. This can

radically reduce power consump-

tion – by as much as 75 percent.