Today’s companies are concerned with the growing costs of energy to run and cool data centers. In some cases, the opportunity to realize significant energy savings involves either upgrading existing data centers with new components or building new ones.

A current alternative is to help to “greening” old data centers with a middleware “Green IT products” that  could create a high capacity virtualized server, than several lost cost dedicated servers. This reduces the number of servers or related IT hardware in the data center and leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs for the companies.

In conclusion Green IT can improve your technological advantages while saving money and improving the company’s reputation. The “The green data center for education” whitepaper from IBM discusses the business benefits of creating a green data centre, and suggests solutions and techniques available to support what can be a complex transition. Click here to download.

Our research group is contributing to this goal doing research that will contribute in a more sustainable era of global computation based in Green IT.