Green technology

Become a more energy efficient business

IT professionals are continually faced with the mounting challenges. Rising energy costs, data centre complexity and mounting demands from business units can curtail an organisation's ability to grow. IBM can satisfy these business challenges with a comprehensive approach in helping customers develop energy efficient, environmentally responsible data centres. By addressing both the physical infrastructure and IT equipment, customers can realise 40% savings in energy costs. This benefits both the health of the company and the health of the environment. At IBM, we believe these can be complementary.

IBM portfolio of energy efficiency servers and technology

IBM can help. IBM's full line of servers are designed with energy efficiency in mind, from System z (US) mainframes, which can run at utilisation rates as high as 100% for extended periods of time, through our Systems x (US) servers, which are capable of up to 37% lower overall power consumption in high demand environments. And this efficiency extends to storage systems, where IBM is the leader in storage virtualisation (US), allowing customers to take advantage of virtualisation technology to leverage the investment in current storage devices. The result is an IT environment that is optimised for energy efficiency through the use of these technologies.

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While you can't go green overnight, IBM can help you work toward your goals in logical, manageable stages as well as position you to reach the vision of a new enterprise data centre. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centres through the design of the IT architecture. With experience garnered in building more than 30 million square feet of data centre space for clients worldwide, IBM can help you select and configure the technology necessary for you to create your own green data centre.

We provide offerings that can help sharply reduce energy consumption. These services and solutions are designed to address every aspect of your IT environment and support your power efficiency objectives.

IBM System z (US)
With rising pressures to curb energy consumption within the data centre, the capacity and power of System z can reign in high energy costs. Find out how mainframe servers can help businesses grow, deliver innovation, and meet new challenges.

IBM Power Systems (US)
POWER™ processor-based systems deliver leadership in performance per watt along with the ability to consolidate underutilised servers. With the ability to adjust energy management policies at the server level, POWER technology provides customers with energy efficient operation of their server environment.

IBM System x (US)
Energy efficiency is one of the most pressing issues facing the IT industry. IBM System x servers can help sharply reduce energy consumption by servers, racks and data centres to help companies transform the world's business infrastructures into "green" data centres. Find out how "Cool Blue" technologies can help your data centre operate in a safe and more efficient environment.

IBM virtualisation
Improve asset utilisation and reduce operating costs with IBM’s cross-platform virtualisation, automation and systems management solutions.

Active Energy Manager (US)
Remove the guesswork in budgeting energy cost savings using this IBM Systems Director plug-in that measures, monitors, and manages the energy components built into IBM systems. Available across the entire IBM server line, Active Energy Managment allows data centre managers to control the energy use down to the server level.