By definition, Green IT is defined as collection of people, processes and technologies enacting an IT strategy to harvest the environmental and financial benefits of becoming more eco-conscious. Today Green IT initiative are mainly focused on data centers, but has slowly been moving across distributed IT as well. Key reason for organization to go to Green IT is to reduce operational cost, avoid risk and even grow revenues.
Five steps to build a case for why an organization should go green:
- Articulate the business benefits of Green IT - Looking at key business benefits and not just talking about Power saving benefits. Like consolidating and virtualizing servers.
- Account for the green benefits of projects already planned.
- Lobby for additional dollars in planned spending allocated to green IT.
- Offer tangible success metrics in data centers and distributed IT
- Tailor the "pitch" based on stakeholders interest.
Open Source: Is It Ready for the Enterprise? with Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, Enterprise Connect, Steve Sokol, Marketing Director for Asterisk, Digium
Open Source PBXs have become a force in the enterprise communication market; with some estimates showing as much as 18 percent of stations shipped (for all size segments) may be open source. Clearly, this is an option that many enterprises are taking much more seriously than they might have expected to a few years ago. But does that mean open source should be a part of your next procurement, or at least included in RFIs and RFPs? The open source PBX mainly famous for its scalability, security and availability for any size of organization.
The emergence of open source IP telephony is an opportunity for decision makers and technology professional to venture outside of the box to procure, customize, install and support Open Source PBXs. Also comparing to vendor based solution open source gives the same features. Open source PBXs is also passed interoperable test with service provides like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint mobile as most robust and reliable solution. Open source gives the flexibility to add, change, and modify the source code so you can built open source PBX solution as you like to operate with from Layer 1 to layer 7 as your organization's requirement to enable FAX over IP, Virtualization for Asterisk and VoIP over Wi-Fi. In short open source is less expensive, reliable and stable comparing to vendor base solutions. There is some security issue with implementing open source but integrating third party application and features we can also secure the Voice traffic.
As video communications have become more integral to enterprise applications over the past few years, the limitations f the current crop solutions have become uncomfortably apparent. This leads me to visit the vendor who is selected as the Best of Interop 2010 finalist in unified communication product VidyoConferncing.
VidyoConferencing takes the HD experience from the headquarters room setting into the remote office, desktop, remote workers- everywhere. It experiences like high quality video at your fingertips wherever you are. This technology makes separation of bit streams into high-reliability and low-reliability channels. These different bit-stream components allow the system to dynamically adapt to varying network conditions such as packet loss, jitter, network bandwidth, network delay and the like.
