GREEN SOFTWARE
INTRODUCTION:
INTRODUCTION:
Green business practices are smart business practices helping reduce costs and enabling you to achieve better business outcomes. The field of "green technology" encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products. The present expectation is that this field will bring innovation and changes in daily life of similar magnitude to the "information technology" explosion over the last two decades. In these early stages, it is impossible to predict what "green technology" may eventually encompass.
Green Software is meant to assist companies in becoming more environmentally friendly. Various functionality is available to advance a business's operations to meet environmental laws and suggestions. Software vendors are competing for shrinking IT budgets by touting products that can save energy, save money, and save the environment. When Software industries comes to green technology, for years it's been computer makers and chip manufacturers that dominated headlines with announcements of purportedly eco-friendly products. Now software vendors including Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL), and IBM (IBM) want their day in the sun.
Software vendors are stepping up emphasis on features they say help customers trim power usage, meet regulatory requirements, and design more efficient buildings. The new capabilities are arriving as companies keep a closer eye on climbing electricity budgets from their data centers and other operations. The products are also a way for software makersand their customersto position themselves as environmentally friendly at a time when being green makes good Public relation sense.
Going green can mean dollars savedclearly a motivating factor for the tech companies already pushing for more earth-saving IT policies, not to mention for those corporations outside the realm of tech that look at such reports to gauge how policies are evolvingand how to emulate them.
OBJECTIVE:
Corporations and their IT departments are recognizing their impact or "Carbon footprint" on the environment and are actively engaged in findings "Green" IT solutions. While many have looked to hardware and power systems as part of these solutions, it is becoming increasingly recognized that software management is also a key part in the role of the IT sector.
STRATEGIES FOR GREEN SOFTWARE:
SUSTAINABILITY - meeting the needs of society in ways that can continue indefinitely into the future without damaging or depleting natural resources. In short, meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Creating products that can be fully reclaimed or re-used
SOURCE REDUCTION - reducing waste and pollution by changing patterns of production and consumption.
INNOVATION - developing alternatives to technologies - whether fossil fuel or chemical intensive agriculture - that have been demonstrated to damage health and the environment.
VIABILITY - creating a center of economic activity around technologies and products that benefit the environment, speeding their implementation and creating new careers that truly protect the planet.
OPPORTUNITIES OF GREEN SOFTWARE:
Directly reduce the carbon footprint' of the organization's computing operation.
Energy saving and power consumptions
Reducing paper and ink costs (i.e) Electronic documents, Electronic document delivery, Electronic signatures etc.,
Cutting down on travel expenses (i.e) Conference calls, Web presentations, Instant message, social networking environment etc.,
Reducing cost of customer acquisitions
Optimizing relationship with customers
Optimize existing and design new business processes for efficiency and reduced environmental impact.
Improve ability to deliver goods and services in a cost effective and environmentally friendly manner.
Reduce environmental impact of employees without impact to productivity.
Reduce impact of supplier and manufacturing activities.
MAJOR SOFTWARE COMPANIES MOVING TO GREENER WORLD:
IBM: IBM Green Computing
Information Technology accounts for approximately 2% of worldwide carbon emissions and focusing on IT alone limits the potential efficiency gains. Green computing software provides the intelligence and insight to not only green IT, but to extend beyond the walls of the datacenter to address the other 98%.
IBM Software for a Greener World is a comprehensive strategy and a broad set of capabilities to help businesses achieve green goals and benefits across their organization. Leveraging offerings from all of the IBM software brands, this strategy is designed to help clients adopt software solutions that optimize and reduce energy consumption and costs, minimize their impact on the environment, and address emerging stakeholder expectations.
I.GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE:
Software helps organizations to achieve energy efficiency across their infrastructure including data and applications, IT equipment, datacenters, facility and property, and assets.
These are,
(i) Optimize energy efficiency of applications & data
Information management
Intelligent management of information via de-duplication, compression and hierarchical storage to reduce both storage and energy costs.
Web sphere software:
Lower energy cost of applications with application level virtualization that increases utilization while meeting transaction level service level agreements.
Rational software:
Optimize application design and deployment architecture for reduced resource and energy needs.
Lotus software:
Efficient messaging and collaboration platform that can reduce data and corresponding energy via data compression and reduced server load.
(ii) Manage energy across your infrastructure
Tivoli software:
Energy Management solutions enable organizations to measure control, optimize, and report energy usage across the infrastructure - including IT, facilities, and other remote assets. IBM solutions help clients to reduce costs, overcome operational constraints, and mitigate the risks of energy and thermal disruptions.
II. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS:
(i) Business Process Management
Web sphere software:
Model, simulate, redesign and automate processes for energy efficiency and environmental impact.
Monitor and analyze green KPIs across operations.
Adapt processes dynamically to environmental challenges that affect operations.
Reduce use of paper in business processes.
(ii) Distribution & Logistics Management
Web sphere software:
RFID tagging and tracking systems.
Networked sensors and meters for environmental data collection.
(iii) Workforce & Stakeholder Management
Lotus software:
Reduce real estate and facilities costs by enabling people to work productively from anywhere, any time.
Decrease travel needs by helping people work together across geographic barriers.
Efficiently bring together broad expertise to collaborate through online events.
(iv) Product & Supplier Management
Web sphere software:
Use fewer resources in the creation of products and improve the environmental attributes of products.
Supply chain optimization of tradeoffs considering service levels, quality, cost, and CO2 emissions.
Product lifecycle management.
ERP SYSTEMS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS:
Some Green Software monitors emissions so that an organization can certify this to the government. Advanced software takes this a step further by helping to suggest how a company can reduce pollution by comparing the activity and settings that the machines run when emitting the least amount of particles. Automatic e-mails and pages can alert key members of a team that problems are occurring in a real-time manner. This allows manager to act immediately instead of discovering the problem(s) after there is an opportunity to solve it.
FINDINGS:
Green software solutions very important to energy efficiency.
Companies are already using software to more efficiently manage servers, mainframes and data centers overall.
Reducing the paper and ink cost, customer acquisition.
Improve to deliver goods and services in a cost effective and environmentally friendly manner.
Reducing the environmental impact on employees and suppliers.
SOLUTIONS TO MAKE GREEN SOFTWARES:
Make software virtualization friendly. Statistic data shows that using virtualization software will increase the server's utilization from 10 percent of capacity to more than 80 percent. At web space, Amazon's EC2 and up-coming Google OS will be the biggest virtualization platform. Better make your Internet/web based business ready for them.
Utilizing visualization technology for your software when present data. Us human being is visual animal. We can consume visual information or information visually presented very efficiently. A green software should help users quickly do their job and without spending too much time hanging around computers analyzing data
Improve caching management for server based application. Performance is just one side of the story. Reduce server CPU time will certainly reduce energy consumption.
Going application decomposition to be task focused. Have heard a lot about "widget" lately? Bring up a giant Microsoft Word to write a note is just big waste. Considering widget based development and deployment.
KISS (aka Keep it simple and stupid). Regardless it's architecture of large enterprise system or writing a programming module, KISS makes both users and machines happy.
Utilize batch job and synchronized transaction or messaging oriented architecture. Doesn't have to be everything in real-time. Move large batch job off the busy power grid time is a good green way.
CONCLUSION:
Green technology is using science and technology to reduce environmental impact. Green computing often focuses on making information technology more efficient. The energy efficiency of operating equipment is a major concern of Green ICT. The biggest influencers to adopting "Green" technology are cost implications and disruption in IT services; being responsible to the environment is secondary.
GREEN SOFTWARE
By: A.V.HARIHARAN
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