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Technology managers are facing governance challenges with their data centers due to increasing energy cost and unpredictable energy demand. Companies should adopt green data center initiatives as part of their IT GRC program to minimize high energy costs and support corporate social responsibility goals.
Key Benefits of MetricStream Green Data Center Solution
- Green Data Center Governance
- Define Data Center Efficiency Metrics (DCiE) and power usage effectiveness (PUE) metrics
- Manage energy consumption, efficiency assessment and rating information for data center zones and components such as hardware, cooling system, UPS, lighting etc.
- Develop corporate environmental policy and ensure compliance through process audits
- Develop and maintain certified environmental management system such as ISO 14001
- Develop plans for reductions in indirect CO2 emissions and process to accomplish it
- Create policies and processes to use renewable energy sources in data center operations
- Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management
- Adopt control based approach to measure and monitor energy consumption data
- Trigger risk and control assessment tasks for non-compliance of green data center policies
- Adopt compliance process for waste recycling and management
- Supports audits for standards and policies for ISO 14001, energy consumption, corporate social responsibility etc.
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