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The Institute highly values the true innovators who find and then willingly share new sources of IT energy savings. Even if these savings are initially small, they set the stage for others to scale up. Accordingly, Innovation as well as real-world Implementation will be recognized with separate awards in each of five key categories:

• IT Strategy
  1. Computing strategies to improve energy efficiency. (e.g. server versus mainframe or cloud computing)
  2. Governance initiatives to overcome organizational silos (e.g. energy czar, or ICE team, or breaking down barriers preventing asset utilization)
  3. Overcoming perverse incentives (e.g. chargeback process changes, utility bill recipient, incorporating power and cooling costs into application justification, or incorporating facilities into ITIL)

• IT Hardware Asset Utilization
  1. Turning comatose equipment off (e.g. server and storage decommissioning)
  2. Increase processing utilization (e.g. virtualization or mainframe versus server computing)
  3. Decreasing energy consumption (e.g. enable power management features in off-peak computing)

• IT Energy-Efficient Hardware Deployment
  
  1. Bringing energy considerations into the procurement process (e.g. 80 Plus Power Supplies, EnergyStar servers, SPEC protocols, economic evaluation models)

• Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (Power and Cooling) Overhead
  
  1. Measuring and improving site infrastructure energy overhead (e.g. matching cooling production with load, eliminating “dueling” cooling units, implementing free-cooling, increasing chilled water temperature)

• Green IT Beyond the Data Center
  
  1. Buying more energy efficient workstations, centrally powering down workstations at night and on weekends, thin clients

Among the Institute’s contributions to the greening of the data center are Symposia, Design Charrettes and white papers which have all made the business case for increasing data center energy efficiency and have defined metrics and a best-practices toolbox for data center operators. The white papers (freely downloadable from the Resources section) include:

• The Invisible Crisis in the Data Center: the Economic Breakdown of Moore’s Law
• Four Metrics Define Data Center Greenness
• A Simple Model for Determining True Total Cost of Ownership for Data Centers