Defined as the practice of sustainable production, management and disposal of electronic equipment, as well as saving energy, Green IT also brings reduction in energy costs. This practice needs to be initiated in sustainable projects and the structuring of the various products needs to be analyzed with new methods or materials that reduce the dangers of contamination for man and nature.

In cloud computing, data storage is done on dedicated servers of companies that perform the service and can be accessed in several places in the world. There is less concern with the hardware part of the machine and air conditioners for the storage of equipment.

When the focus is on electronics, it is necessary for the company to manage its use of IT equipment. Both the purchase and lease of equipment consume less electricity, as well as the use of recycled paper and reduced levels of printing. And of course, that may be disposed smartly.

Green IT can be defined in three areas: Tactical, Strategic and Deep IT. The IT Tactical represents the reduction of energy consumption by turning off the monitors which are not in use. Strategically it changes the computers, for example, in producing a better maintenance of equipment and thus, an estimated economy.

Deep IT is based, for example, in actions that range from planning a data center to the movement of employees and consumption of alternative energy like solar, and the use of server virtualization, management of power consumption generated by cooling equipment.

The segment of grid computing, virtualization and cloud computing meet the newest demands of modern environments called “Green IT” or “environmentally friendly data center“. This factor is one of the strengths that highlight your company and raises its level in a matter of sustainability.

The SAN-based network is the creation of a separate internal network which is specifically designed to provide high-bandwidth storage device. It allows you to separate the storage systems of servers, and deploy the drives directly to the Fibre Channel network which allows you to create multiple connections between dedicated servers and data storage, and vice versa.

This approach provides the use of storage devices and benefits the traditional networks in the form of improving scalability, availability and performance. Additionally, data backup is no longer affected in the rest of the network, as traffic associated with the backup is performed on a separate SAN network, that is, outside the LAN.

SAN – is a separate, high performance managed network, optimized and concentrated to provide storage, collaborate servers, the operation of data centers and backup devices. It removes the need for traffic to the corporate network that is optimal for the clients-dedicated servers interaction. This technology provides instant access and it is also a technology that does not disable the system to update it. SAN or network data store is the best choice to ensure continuous work on the principle of 24×7.

In accordance with the progress of technology, a new era of networked storage offers solutions that may be suitable for large and small user environments. This new approach also allows the storage and networking solutions to grow with the user, providing the scalability, performance, availability, and centralized management. It must be remembered that the basic unit of data storage is cheaper but the complexity is expensive.

The data center market is boiling. The projects in this area live a moment of expansion, both in corporate and commercial sector to meet the demands of IT, which increased with the growing economy, and also to prepare the ground for cloud. With these requirements, companies are beginning to look  at a new alternative for the construction of data centers. Sites are boxed in container, which follow the business where they are in parking facilities, in the sea, dams or in the mountains.

Called Container Data Center (CDC), these new types of data centers are not intended to replace the traditional masonry buildings. They are more to meet specific business needs.

These projects have their targeted audience who need to rapidly expand infrastructure, public companies, oil drilling, civil construction, and mining companies that hold temporary events such as those promoting concerts and sports competitions, among other businesses .

The main advantage of this model, according to the evaluation of consultants in the industry, is the possibility of rapid assembly and disassembly of data centers, since they are mobile and can be transported by truck to anywhere.

Advantages of the data center container

One of the advantages of the CDC is the speed of installation. A data center container can be installed within 60 days. And more importantly, this type of solution reduces energy consumption by over 40% and meets all safety requirements. The CDC are modular and can grow with the needs of customers, adding new boxes, as pieces of lego game, to provide non-stop IT.

The mobile data center can be transported and installed up on the mountain.  Even with these advantages, I believe that the CDC will not replace the data centers of bricks, because this solution is an alternative for situations in which companies cannot put the infrastructure in conventional buildings.