Small Business Opportunities
synergieIT provides you with powerful tools that enable you to package GHG reduction-related services to your customers. You can offer transition projects for server consolidation, server right-sizing, UPS assessments, UPS right-sizing and monitor replacement. You can generate recurring revenue by offering incremental services for desktop power management and UPS battery management.
The combined impact of these services can typically reduce GHG emissions by 10 metric tons per year/ per customer. Not only will this help them achieve their own GHG reduction targets, in many cases, the cost savings generated by these projects and services will significantly offset your customer’s costs in engaging your services.
With a growing recognition of the urgency and importance of responding to the challenge of reducing GHGs to combat climate change, by leveraging synergieIT to deliver services such as these, you can obtain an early leadership position as a Green managed service provider. This can significantly improve your competitive advantage.
Up-market Opportunities
Managed Service Providers that manage data centres and support mid-sized companies can generate business opportunities from specialising in Green IT service delivery. According to a recent study by the Gartner Group, power costs will consume 40% of IT budgets by 2011.
A recent study by Symantec states that 75% of solution providers are interested in adopting a Green data centre. By leveraging Managed Workplace, solution providers can deliver significant Green value to data centres and mid-sized companies since there are proportionally more opportunities for server consolidation, right-sizing, desktop power savings, and environmental systems management.
According to eWeek, surveys show that 48 % of IT budgets are spent on energy and that by 2008 50% of data centres will have insufficient power and cooling. By 2010, energy costs are poised to become the second-highest operating cost of a data centre, behind labor.
By helping to drive down power consumption, heat loss from systems is also reduced substantially which contributes simultaneously to cooling savings. This in turn further reduces the GHG emissions necessary to cool the server racks.
