IBM Project Big Green

In May 2007, IBM unveiled Project Big Green -- a re-direction of $1 billion USD per year across its businesses to increase energy efficiency. New products and services are expected to reduce data center energy consumption and transform clients' technology infrastructure into “green” data centers, with energy savings of approximately 42 percent for an average data center. As part of Project Big Green, IBM is building an $86 million green data center expansion at its Boulder, Colorado location and will consolidate nearly 4,000 computer servers in six locations worldwide onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running the Linux operating system.

Project Big Green outlines a five-step approach for data centers that is designed to improve energy efficiency:

# Diagnose: evaluate existing facilities -- energy assessment, virtual 3-D power management and thermal analytics.
# Build: plan, build or update to an energy efficient data center.
# Virtualize: virtualize IT infrastructures and special purpose processors.
# Manage: seize control with power management software.
# Cool: exploit liquid cooling solutions -- inside and out of the data center.

By investing in systems that deliver better performance per watt, businesses can make significant long-term savings and reduce their carbon footprint. Project Big Green invests in delivering continual advances in power-performance for each new generation of its server and storage technologies, enabling clients to run the same business workload at lower cost and with reduced environmental impact.

See also

* Energy Star
* Green computing

External links

* [http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/utilities/doc/content/news/pressrelease/2515779119.html Press release for "Project Big Green"] - IBM.com
* [http://www.theraisedfloor.typepad.com/ The Raised Floor] - a group-authored weblog, discusses the energy efficient and eco-friendly solutions related to the greening of data centers worldwide.