Three steps to calculate total enterprise IT energy consumption using DCIM
- By Patrick Donovan & Robert Moore
- 06 Mar 2023
- 1 min read
Reducing the environmental impact of enterprise IT begins with collecting data and reporting metrics to establish a baseline. But with dozens of potential metrics and complex accounting to consider, along with the highly distributed and diverse nature of hybrid IT portfolios, this can be a daunting task. For many chief information officers (CIOs) and their IT operations teams, it is also a new task. This paper is a straightforward “how to get started” guide that identifies energy consumption as the fundamental data point to start with and gives a simple three-step framework to start measuring the environmental impact of the IT estate.
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