Saving Energy with Online Service and Software
Reduce your hardware costs
The Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model offers a two punch combination to carbon dioxide emission reductions. The first punch is purely from the economies of scale realized from centralized processing and a shared services model. Instead of thousands of customers individually operating thousands of servers and the power hungry facilities to support those servers, the SaaS multi-tenant model centralizes data center operations to use less equipment and a small fraction of the supporting facility costs. When you recognize that supporting facility costs outweigh the cost and emissions production of the servers and related computer equipment you get a handle on how material this savings really is.
Achieve Data Center Performance
The second punch to carbon dioxide emissions is born by the data center operator via thoughtful decision making and a desire for improved power consumption, cooling efficiency and equipment density.
RapidiOnline’s hosted services for businesses provide important steps in reducing business cost and contribute to a cleaner environment by using our central servers, helping the environment by using less power. Essentially we are eliminating the need for one data integration server at each customer location.
Reduce your paper with Web-Based Software Services
Web-Based Software services make turning paper-based business processes into fully automated data processes which are cost-effective, easy to use, sophisticated, and paperless technology without compromising data use, collection, or storage.
Online SaaS Solutions Make Sense
On demand Service at RapidiOnline offers a green IT perspective, to use less energy is efficient, environmentally thoughtful and economic. We would like to balance business requirements, reliable environment and energy ideas for improving your business processes.
Our Saas solutions are there to ensure your business data is equipped to make better business decisions using less paper, less waste and improved processes.
What can you do? ... to save energy and reduce carbon dioxide emission
- Perform your own internal investigation and demonstrate an explicit and vigorous management commitment.
- Solicit broad participation and encourage staff to identify and suggest practices that save energy.
- Create a plan backed with measurable goals for energy savings, power efficiency and carbon reduction.
- Update your procurement policies and practices to seek out and favor energy efficient vendors and solutions.
- Have IT management perform a baseline power utilization; be sure to measure power consumption for IT equipment and the data center infrastructure.
- If you don’t already, immediately begin routing the electric and utility bills to IT management and coordinate financial incentives among IT management, facilities management and possibly your CFO for future cost savings.
- Schedule periodic (I suggest quarterly) power consumption audits to verify monthly reporting and trend analysis.
- Create a program to recycle obsolete or discarded equipment and recycle technology-related consumables (e.g. paper and printer cartridges).
- Evaluate videoconferencing as a substitute for travel.
- Consider telecommuting where it makes sense.
- Consider replacing servers more than three years old with newer energy-efficient models. Also review the CPU performance-stepping technology which dynamically adjusts the processor energy consumption based on processor load.
- Minimize storage equipment by using SANs and other network attached storage hardware which consolidate storage space and save power.
- Push for multi-threaded software applications which take advantage of multicore-processor machines.
- Participate in an industry group or consortium in order to share knowledge and collaborate with other like minded professionals.
Green Ideas are good for the economy and your business
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