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MidTech Green IT Initiative
-“Saving the earth one bit at a time” Campaign
Going green is the way to do business. Today’s trend of energy crisis will soon require and enforce, when not optional, every organization to take mandatory actions to be compliant with green regulation. MidTech is moving a step forward to initiate a unique Green IT program that assists our clients and business partners emerging their landscape for optimizing efficiency of existing IT assets, reducing corporate energy consumption and becoming more environmentally responsible.
Under the Green IT Initiative program, MidTech’s technology experts will provide customers with the following services:
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Assess systems and infrastructure
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Recommend Green IT solution and planning
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Implement Green Initiatives for IT assets and processes
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Operate a green IT shop thru consolidation and virtualization of servers and peripherals
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Revamp architecture and infrastructure
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Design and deploy Greener IT Systems, such as paperless document management, consolidated business applications, and deduplication of database and content storages
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Revise processes and metrics to position you IT to enable Green Business Practices
We will help you to find and execute quick wins when minimize the risk of your business continuality.
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MidTech believes that IT consolidation is a success imperative. If you are at the point where your data center is physically running out of floor space, power, or cooling capacity, then you understand just how important it is. And if you haven’t reached that point yet, begin taking the necessary steps to prevent such a crisis now. In order for consolidation to be successful, every aspect of the enterprise, from finance to human resources, must understand the objective and be committed to its success. We have developed a series of practical thresholds and guidelines on how to prioritize your consolidation effort. What can you expect from a successful consolidation? After the consolidation, you can have lower energy usage, lower overall costs, and greater operational efficiencies.
Environmental responsibility has emerged as an important consideration for any size of corporations today. The IT sector is becoming aware of the environmental and financial impact of issues such as increased power consumption, data center cooling issues, quickly growing number of computer equipments, duplication of applications and data storages, and e-waste from IT operations. With MidTech’s “Saving the earth one bit at a time” campaign, we will optimize power consumption and cost structure for your IT organizations with limited resources. Technology enablers like Windows Server 2008 multi processor, Hyper-V virtualization, remote computing, MOSS, and SQL Server 2008, etc. eliminate requirements for dedicated physical assets for business applications and for physical proximity of users to those resources.
Since IT consolidation brings together (consolidates) many physical things (servers, data centers, and hardware), it incorporates many different subject areas. The major steps will include:
Capacity Planning
For a long time, capacity planning has been directly linked to the scarcity and cost of resources. In the mainframe era, it was considered a necessity. In the distributed system world, it faded when hardware resources became seemingly abundant and cheap. Capacity planning is a very important aspect of IT consolidation. If you are over capacity or are running out of resources, consolidation is a perfect solution so that you can still maintain a level of growth. MidTech views capacity planning as a solution to maintaining business service quality and avoiding the consequences of downtime and brownouts: It’s not just a way to maintain a minimum level of service at the lowest possible cost. As IT data centers struggle with server consolidation and server virtualization, capacity planning becomes the key to maintaining or improving service quality while containing costs.
Virtualization
Virtualization eliminates the requirement for a dedicated physical asset for each application and for physical proximity of users and resources. Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in IT infrastructure right now because it not only makes technology easier to use, its innovative nature produces more business value by ensuring a more change-ready and flexible foundation for your business.
Virtualization redefines an environment, be it with servers, storage, desktops, peripheral, or networks.
One-third of enterprises surveyed in 2007 are using server virtualization, and it’s estimated that by 2009 that statistic will reach three-fourths. Virtualization facilitates consolidation not only hardware but software, as well as business applications and databases.
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Green IT Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Green IT involves suppliers and their corporate customers changing the way computing assets are designed, manufactured, operated, implemented, used and disposed of to gain efficiency and cost savings while reducing environmentally harmful impacts. Concerned about the environmental footprint of their companies, enterprises are constantly consolidating their IT infrastructures, processes and applications.
For the enterprise, growth is synonymous with success. More growth equals more revenue generated, and often, a broader market presence. However, growth must come from within a budget with fat profit margins, and this is getting tougher to accomplish every day. And firms’ constraints aren’t just budgetary — IT must fit within the physical infrastructure and fit the people the firm employs.
Mismanaging these resources can hinder growth and future success. The solution is IT optimization, and the path to get there is often IT consolidation — and the sooner you start the better
The IT consolidation imperative is: out of space, out of power, and out of money. There are several approaches to IT consolidation. The right path depends on your starting point and most pressing limitation. You can replace aging equipment with newer and more efficient hardware. You can migrate business applications to a centralized platform. You can eliminate optional devices (such as fax machines and printers). You can increase the utilization of your servers through virtualization or your storage through a SAN implementation.
The approaches and methods to achieve a successful IT consolidation are endless, which is a positive thing, but it’s also quite overwhelming. What’s right for one company may not be for another. MidTech will offer you advice to get you on the right consolidation path. Some considerations include:
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Implement ERP instance consolidation
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Adopt the discipline of consolidation
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IT consolidation drives Active-Active data center configuration
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Fully utilize desktop power
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Remove legacy devices (e.g. fax machine and mail slip printer).
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New technology consists of built-in Green features (Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008).
Hyper-V provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. This virtualized environment can be used to address a variety of business goals aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs. For example, a virtualized server environment can help you:
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Reduce the costs of operating and maintaining physical servers by increasing your hardware utilization. You can reduce the amount of hardware needed to run your server workloads.
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Increase development and test efficiency by reducing the amount of time it takes to set up hardware and software and reproduce test environments.
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Improve server availability without using as many physical computers as you would need in a failover configuration that uses only physical computers.
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Increase or reduce server resources in response to changes in demand.
WSS is a document management and team collaboration tool from Microsoft. It can be used to replace paper use in a collaborating environment for any size of companies. WSS integrates with Office and devices such as fax machines, storage media and printers. MidTech specializes this technology to help customers to achieve paperless operation.
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