From Power Hungry to Green

Hungry

Sean Whetstone
Head of I.T. Services
Reed Managed Services Plc

Email: sean.whetstone@reed.co.uk
 Our Green Credentials

Offset carbon emissions through The Carbon Neutral Company since

2005

Joined the “May Day Company” 1st May 2007 supported by

H.R.H Prince of Wales (Including Case Study)

Participation in a working party on House of Commons on Green I.T

with Alan Whitehead M.P, Wyse and Envirowise.

Green IT case study with Global Action Plan at the House of

Commons.

Winner of City of London Resource Conservation Award at the

sustainable City Awards 2008.

Short-listed by Computing for Green Project of the Year 2007

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 Green case study
Utilization is the key
 During 2006 & 2007 we rolled out new
infrastructure to reduce operating costs, secure
our corporate data and reduce our carbon footprint
at the same time.
 The new infrastructure consisted of 64 bit Citrix,
HP Blade servers with x64 Opetron processors.
 Each 64bit server supports a maximum of 100
users ensuring maximum utilisation.
 Our infrastructure supports offices globally
allowing “follow the sun” in opposite time zones
such as Australia.
 We deployed 18 Virtual Windows 2003 Servers
using VMWare to run our Citrix Infrastructure.
 On average we run 25 virtual servers per VMWARE
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server and have virtualized over 200 servers in
total.
 Green case study
Making the Desktop
green
 We have deployed over 5,000 Wyse V30 Thin Client Win
terminals which use 14.1 watts up to 10 hours per
business day compared to the 100-185 Watts used by
H.P PCs they replaced which were left on 24 x 7!

 The Thin Client devices are planned to last twice as long.

(eight years compared to four for a P.C)

 Replacing laptop fleet with Wyse X90 mobile thin clients

which consume 20 watts (5.6 watts with external
monitor) compared with 75 watts for current laptop
model.

 Replaced 1,600 hard disks on 500 servers running 24x7

and consolidated to a centralised replicated Netapp
storage system running just 462 hard disks allowing a
71% reduction in spinning disks. 4
 Green case study
It’s not just about CO2

 Less raw materials and CO2 emissions in

the production of Thin Clients when
compared with PC’s.

 Less weight and smaller packaging

reducing transport emissions.

 Removal of Manuals and non essential

items

 Packaging 99% recyclable.

 Reduced no. of transportation hops to end

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 The Green Data Centre

 Increased temperature from 18C to 24C

 Turned off air conditioning humidifiers

 Installed “Free Cooling” Air Conditioning

 Cold & Hot Isles, Effective use of air flow

 Intelligent Power Management

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 The Savings

 Significant reduction in the powering and cooling due to the

reduction of 200 less servers and increasing temperature in
our data centres, eliminating the need for additional planned
upgrades of air conditioning, power distrubution, un-
interupted power supply and generator backup.

 No need to invest in local infrastructure in each country we

operate in. All applications and services are hosted from the
UK in a “follow the sun” approach.

 The reduction of over 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions per

annum through reduction of 500 servers and 5,100 PC’s all
of which were powered 24x7. This equates to approx
5,500,000 kilowatt hours saved per annum which is a 26%
financial saving of our annual utility bills.
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 Thank You

Thank You for Listening

Email:Sean.whetstone@reed.co.uk

http://www.reed.co.uk