Welcome to the ISS Green ICT site - ISS have produced a Green Information & Communications Technology (ICT) policy to help reduce energy consumption, improve efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint associated with ICT operations.
Introduction
The policy for PC use on campus aims to reduce total carbon emissions through the better use of ICT for University processes. This targeted investment in ICT can be used to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University.
These procedures provide guidance for staff and students on reducing the energy use of PC’s including when PC’s can be powered down and use of automatic powerdowns for peripherals.
Objectives and Status Report - 29th April, 2012
Objectives for 2011/12
- Co-Location: Continue to promote use of Co-Location facility amongst faculties and departments and complete the move of another four departments to the Co-Location room by October 2012.
- Application Virtualisation: Deploy Application Virtualisation for students by October 2012 in order to reduce dependence on PC Labs, thereby reducing the number of public/faculty/Dept. PCs required.
- PC Power Management: Deploy tools to allow staff to better manage power usage of their PCs. Trial in LEC (Dec 2011) and release to campus by May 2012.
- Power Monitoring: Deploy remote power monitoring tools to major datacentres and report usage trends (Aril 2012).
Status Report (March 2012)
- Unix Mail Closure: The service review and consultation process has finished with the outcome that the Unix Mail Service will cease and the servers retired. The target date for closure is in the first few weeks of the summer term.
- Co-Location: The Physics 'Atlas' equipment has now been moved into the ISS HEC Data Centre room. Planning meetings to discuss a phased relocation of equipment from the SCC data centre have been held. This is likely to commence in the summer holidays to avoid disruption to teaching.
- Student Application Virtualisation: The project proposal has been discussed and the final proposal will go to the April Infrastructure Executive.
- Power Management: The staff PC trial is in progress.
- Power Monitoring: Request received from Roger Jones (Director of HEC facility) to be able to monitor power usage of the HEC equipment. eSight currently only gives total for ISS building.
- Lecture Capture: The PanOpto equipment for lecture capture has been purchased. A review, by ITPC, of lecture capturing has determined more work to better define the trial outcomes is needed.
- Centralised Purchasing: ISS have met with central procurement and a re-write of website guidance is being carried out. This will point people to ISS standard specifications which will include green IT considerations, rather than simply presenting users with a list of suppliers.
Green links:
- Lancaster University energy and carbon management.
- The Carbon Trust.
- Green Lancaster.
- A lecture given to the ICT Open User Forum by Mike Berners-Lee.
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