Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment. Understanding what Green Servers actually mean Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment.

Our computers have opened a new vista of communication for us. They connect us to any place and at any time as per our requirements. The world has indeed become a smaller place now that space-time itself is being reduced to a point. But excessive dependency on machines to do our work is doing no good to the environment. Millions and millions of computers worldwide are emitting green house gases and other toxic materials that are doing much harm to the ozone layer in our atmosphere and the environment in general. Moreover, like other electronic gadgets, computers, servers and other related hardware too become outdated in no time. These results in piling up of e-waste and other harmful toxic substances that are non-biodegradable. Typically computers consume more energy than is necessary for the scale of work they do. If one checks the ‘output level’ of a CPU, invariably one would find figures such as 1 percent or even less. The need of the hour is environment friendly IT and computer infrastructure that is more sustainable and cost effective.

It is hard to imagine our life without computers in the 21st century. For work, office and personal use, the computer has revolutionized the way we view time and space. But computers typically use large amounts of energy and give out emissions that contribute greatly to green house gas emissions. Moreover, computer hardware, old machines, servers and other electronic components contribute much toxic e-waste and other harmful chemicals. The Governments of many nations have furiously debated on how to put a cap on this high energy consumption and emission by electronic gadgets. Non-governmental organizations have been talking about Green Computing which is essentially an environment friendly and cost effective way of power usage. Green computing can be achieved in four different ways: