As the global market for Information Technology (IT) approaches $4 trillion (US) and more than 2 billion PCs will be in use by 2014, Green IT becomes ever more important as a means to control resource use, costs and emissions. AcclimateUs provides a variety of services centered around:

• Helping buyers find the most energy efficient ways to run their IT operations
• Guiding IT vendors to more resource conservative product options
• Connecting renewable energy generation or CleanTech solutions to traditional IT channels and vendors to accelerate self generation and smart grid adoption

Principals within the AcclimateUs team have worked in high tech for over 20 years. This experience is applied to a mix of expert professional services, research, positioning, market news and aMarketPlace^TM connections to help both IT and CleanTech vendors expand sales, market share and value within the greening global marketplace.

Green IT Resources

There are many tools available immediately to help you calculate how much energy, CO2 and operating costs your IT systems demand each year. Here are just a few:

Measure and Save

According to SEI:

1. Power saving equipment can shed 80% of the energy typically consumed a desktop computer/PC (that's cutting down from 120W-130W to 20W-30W)
2. Computer monitors use 60% of the total power and yet less than 10% of people actually turn off their monitors when they leave their desks for half an hour.
3. Even standby mode isn't great since 43% of computer power is still in use
4. Turning off your computer at night instead of leaving it on will save on average 25% of its annual energy bill.

Calculate your Green IT Baseline

Forrester Research recommends doing yourself and your business a favor by investing your time and capital wisely by first measuring your green IT baseline. Not only will this data offer a practical green IT starting point by exposing your most eco-taxing assets, but without it you cannot accurately quantify and report the benefits of your greening efforts to senior management.

Summarize the savings

The US Energy Star program has done a number of cost/benefit analyses about simple energy saving means for PCs and servers. Included is a summary savings when you follow the Energy Star Computer Specification.

Energy Saving Gadgets

Google's Energy Saver enables and optimizes your computer's power management settings to help save the world energy.

Measure the Carbon output of your IT operations

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) EZ Wizard (download here) optimizes power management settings for Windows 2000 and Windows XP monitors and computers. Also from the EPA, Download the EPA's Low Carbon IT Savings Calculator.

Rely on your favored Vendor Solution

• 1E's Online Energy Savings Calculator illustrates how $36 / £26 per PC per year can be saved using power management and power down capabilities.
• Special incentives from New Boundary Technologies can save you money on software as well as energy costs and carbon emissions.
• Logicalis offers a Carbon & Power Consumption calculator based on switching to virtualization.
• Verdiem offers Wake On WAN and Wake on Web illustrate a number of ways to manage and save