Few days back I attended the event which was organized by Al-Futtaim
Technologies Pakistan (formerly known as Alcatel-Lucent Pakistan) about
“Green IT” and recently I have come to know about IBM’s event “Paint
Your IT Green” organized in Lahore and Islamabad few days back. As
being the World’s Leading IT Innovator and Business Solutions Provider
IBM is providing Services to the Pakistani Organization from many
decades and IBM is uniquely capable of Integrating Industry and
Technology Expertise to help businesses meet their urgent energy,
environment and sustainability Challenges and also same goes with the
Al-Futtaim Technologies they are the leading Technology Solutions
Provider in UAE ………………………Both the event which were conducted was
primarily focused on the importance of Green IT ……

For those who don’t know what Green IT is? It means that

“How to use the computer resources in such an efficient way
by adapting the friendly environmental habits such as Power
Consumptions, Recycling, and Virtualization etc.”

Let me clarify what Green IT is in more detail ……By keeping in mind
that we want to implement Green IT in our organization we have to
follow some approaches about it. As I have mentioned in the above
definition that we have to adapt Friendly environmental habits such as
Power Consumptions, Recycling, Virtualization.

The approaches which I was talking about earlier in my point of view are as follows

1) Recycling

2) Virtualization

3) Power Management

4) Data Storage Systems

5) Telecommunication Techniques

The above said approaches in others mind might be different but this
is what I feel that we can follow in order to implement Green IT
infrastructure in our working Organization.Now what are those
approaches let me define them one by one in much broader terms

1) Recycling: As well know that all know
that Computers parts are being made from the materials such as of Lead
, Mercury , Gold and other related materials , so when we go for
recycle them we need such kind of facilities where we follow the
standards being followed to recycle any type of computer parts . As
currently we can see in our Country the prices of Desktop Computers
have fallen down so drastically have you ever think why it is all
because of the fact that we don’t have any kind of rules and
regulations in our country for maintain and taking care of our People’s
Health and Safety. Neither have we had the so called Recycling Facility
nor do we care about it or having some awareness about what recycling
is. We have to educate our people in this regard. Correct me if I am
wrong in relation with the activities and policies about RECYCLING.So
Importers of Personal Computers and Parts, in my point of view, are not
taking care of this point and they just keep one thing in their mind
that is making Profit. May be I am wrong but this is what I observed
and feel about it. Yes it’s good to have Personal Computers at each
home of Pakistan for the progress of IT Industry but at the cost of
this thing? Where our coming generation at the stake of getting ill by
using such kind of Products Usage which might be injurious to their
health….. Does it feel sensible to all of you? You might be against me
on this point. But that’s what I feel so I said it…….

2) Virtualization: Virtualization is a
concept which enables you to work on one computer to do the job of
multiple ones being residing on one physical hardware by sharing it
resources for doing work across multiple operating environments, which
makes easy for you to control your machine locally or remotely. So by
using this concept Computer Professionals are utilizing this in
combining several Physical Computer Systems into one single logical
machine……. This makes them enable to monitor the power consumptions,
Server Utilization, Temperature/Cooling Controls ………

3) Power Management : As being an IT
Professional and specially related to the purchasing and selection of
hardware , I have observed that we have to really look into this
matters because it all depends upon the services and utilization
requirements of ours that we choose any computer hardware. In Power
Management we have to look what are the things (hardware such as
Processors, Monitors , RAM’s, Hard Drives) are being used at what time
and if they are underutilizing then we have to use ACPI ( Advance
Configuration and Power Interface) which allows the Operating Systems,
likes of Windows XP, Windows 2000, AIX , Linux(Any Distribution of it)
.. are to name of the few, to directly control the power savings
features.

4) Data Storage Systems: hmmm Well on this
side, I can say that we really have to take care of all the data
whether it’s personal or of organization. For storing the data we take
our backups on Floppy Disk, Flash/USB Drives , CD , DVD, Zip Drives,
Tape Cartridges and even on some complex structures too likes of
Storage Area Networks … all the devices being used for taking backups
and for storing does use some power whether it is on small scale or
large ones……

5) Telecommunication Techniques: In today’s
world the boom of telecommunication enabled us to connect in any part
of world at any time regardless of boundaries…. That’s why today’s
corporate organizations are utilizing this format in such a way by
adapting the latest telecommunication techniques which are not only
environment friendly but also helps them to reduce their over head
costs and increase their profits ……..

In Pakistan we do lag such kind of facilities where we can adapt the
state of the art practices and feel proud of them. There is no such
kind of policies and Regulations from the Government side. At least
there is some interest being showed by the local Government bodies who
are taking participation in making this fact and idea to some what real
………….. For the implementation side, we do need to learn the facts,
techniques and governance based upon our culture and society.As we all
know that we really are lagging of such professional who have those
kind of vision in relation of Green IT ………..

My Question to all of you is that… Are we ready for implementing
Green IT? As we are going through the power crisis, economic crisis,
political crisis …..Do Comment