Organisations find themselves under increasing pressure to both demonstrate (and improve) their ‘green’ credentials, and reduce their costs. Addressed intelligently, these two demands are more complimentary than conflicting, efficiency is key to both.

Customers, shareholders, governments and regulators are increasingly environmentally aware and as awareness matures so the demand grows for serious, quantifiable and credible environmental improvement.

The question is: “How do you measure it?”

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) finds itself under intense scrutiny and the vision of a more sustainable and affordable ICT future is behind the creation of this framework.

The DSI, is a measurement framework for the ICT community and their stakeholders. Its purpose is to allow the accurate, meaningful and auditable assessment of the sustainability of an organisation’s ICT, which can be compared against peers, against national and international targets or used as the tangible evidence of compliance with standards and regulations.

Kudos Sustainability Ltd was founded to continue and improve upon the progress made by Kudos IT Systems in the area of Sustainable IT, key to this is the Dixon Sustainability Index or DSI.

Quick KSL tip:

Server power consumption can be reliably estimated by using the following formula:

Pn = (Pmax – Pidle)* n/100 + Pidle.

Pn is power consumption at n percentage CPU utilization,Pmax is the maximum power draw, and Pidle is the power draw at idle.