Energy Efficient ICT

Salix Technical Workshop

Professor Colin Pattinson & Roland Cross

Nottingham Trent University23rd September 2010

The Green University

Sustainable Policy

“Sustainability is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.”

“Leeds Metropolitan University recognises that in order to realise this definition we must look at our social, economic and environmental impacts and give each area equal weighting. As students will be our biggest impact in each of these areas we are committed to improving our sustainable development by a programme of continuous improvement.”

Sustainable ICT

or

Green ICT

The Green University Governance

The Green University GREEN IT STRATEGY

Green IT StrategyObjectives

• Reduce the costs of ICT within the University

• Reduce the carbon footprint of ICT within the University

• Contribute to the University’s carbon reduction objectives

• Support other areas with reducing their carbon reduction plans e.g. Estates, transport strategy etc.

The strategy

• Print & Copy– Integrated print/ copy strategy– Digital forms

• Procurement– Consider managed services– Include “green” in tender documents

• End user equipment– DTPM– Appliance consolidation

The strategy –cont’d

• Data centre– Server / Storage virtualisation– Desktop issues– Environmental control

• Legislation – Awareness raising

• Recycling & Disposal– Best practice

• Network services– UC / Video conferencing

Strategy Progress

Print/Copy Progress

KPI #1: Number of Devices

Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010Printers Purchased 247 245 131 39 10

Recycled 256 237 247 585 183

iPrint Leased 0 3 38 56 71

Size of fleet 1,934 1,945 1,867 1,377 1,275

Print/Copy Progress

KPI #2: Number of pages deleted

  No. Pages% of total pages

submitted2009    Total pages printed 5,247,437 78.2%Deleted by User 614,607 12.6%Deleted by System after 3 days 846,988 9.2%Total Pages Deleted for 2009 1,461,595 21.8%     2010    Total pages printed 6,452,725 81.3%Deleted by User 1,143,587 14.4%Deleted by System after 3 days 345,283 4.4%Total Pages Deleted for 2010 1,488,870 18.8%

Print/Copy Progress

Other KPIs

• Decreased toner and ink usage

• Decreased paper usage

• Decreased electricity consumption

End User Equipment Progress

KPI #1: Number of Devices Power Managed

Year 2008 2009 2010

Student PCs 0 245 1418

Staff PCs 0 0 0

Total 0 245 1418

The strategy has allowed us to do…

• MSc Green Computing• Research projects

– Thin client measurements– Energy costs of the cloud– Wake up on LAN– Software energy

• Student projects– Energy measurements– Low-cost, low-energy network– Environmental impact of a data server

Questions & Answers