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Letrex Services Ltd
Unit 10, Progress Business Centre
Whittle Parkway
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 6DQ
Registered at Companies House, Cardiff,
No. 04512806
Call on 01628 550400
Green IT Solutions
Green computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. Typically, green computing systems or products take into account the so-called triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. Typical factors include reduction of the use of hazardous materials at the manufacturing and recycling stages, maximised energy efficiency during the product's lifetime, and recyclability of the defunct product at the end of its useful life. In addition, the impact of the operating environment required by the system, such as air-conditioning or water-cooling must be minimised.
IT is increasingly able to influence the environmental impact of company operations outside the data centre. Voice over IP (VoIP) reduces the telephony wiring infrastructure by sharing the existing Ethernet copper (a toxic metal). VoIP and phone extension mobility also make "hotelling" of office space more practical.
The average annual energy consumption for office buildings is over 23 kilowatt hours per square foot; space heat, air conditioning and lighting together account for 70% of all energy consumed in a typical office building. Hotelling reduces the square footage per employee because workers reserve space only when they need it. For many jobs -- sales, consulting, field service -- a dedicated office does not sit vacant, consuming energy for lighting and cooling.
Telecommuting (working from home) can reduce space requirements, and the emissions caused by commuters. Telephony technologies have made it practical to operate whole departments outside the building: Call centres hire at-home agents whose physical absence from the building is practically indiscernible to customers.
Teleconferencing and telepresence technologies have the potential to cut down on business travel, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Computer virtualisation is the process of running two or more logical computer systems on one set of physical hardware. The concept originated with the mainframe operating systems of the 1960s, but was commercialised for x86-compatible computers only in the 1990s. With virtualisation, a system administrator can combine several physical systems into virtual machines on one single, powerful system, thereby unplugging the original hardware and reducing power and cooling consumption.
Letrex can provide virtualisation solutions that offer the highest levels of density, performance and manageability, and enable organisations to make significant energy savings by reducing the number of power-hungry servers.
Market research suggests that as many as one sixth of company computers are not switched off at night and weekends. In a typical large business with 10,000 PCs, this could be costing as much as £200,000 a year in wasted energy.
Most IT departments face the challenge of shutting down PCs in a large network where users fail to shut down and switch off their workstations at the end of the day. We offer simple, easy to install solutions which ensure your PCs are safely shut down and switched off automatically each day, at a time to be decided by you.
Many organisations deploy critical patches and updates overnight, to minimise impacting users' productivity. Our solutions allow shut-down PCs to be woken, the patch or update applied, and the PC to be shut down again without ever having to touch the workstation.
Utilising solutions from partners including Verdiem, Parallels and Thinprint, Letrex can work with you to reduce energy costs and minimise the environmental impact of your IT infrastructure.
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