Submitted by Alex (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 01:58.
open4energy has released its energyManager open source solution, built as an extension to RRDtool and the Cacti graphing solution.
A detailed tutorial on how to download and implement this free solution for measuring exactly how much energy is being used by the IT equipment is available from the site.
There is no doubt that a traditionally energy inefficient IT industry has room to make savings of between 10% and 20%. But overstretched IT departments seem reluctant, even with FREE software, to take the time to make these savings. There are just so many items of higher financial impact to be addressed.
The question we are left with is:
What will it take to make energy saving a priority?
Clearly the open source movement will make a difference, and we believe that if the solutions can be made sufficiently simple to implement, and the steps to affect change obvious, then our natural inclination to care for our resources will be allowed to take hold.
I see you are also using Drupal for your site. This is excellent, in my opinion, see http://open4energy.com/forum to see how well Drupal manages forum's and blogs - you may not want to have contributors use multiple sites.
Also, I need a SNMP supported device to use for home computing, either wireless, or wired for the home server etc, any idea do let me know.
open4energy - energy measuring
open4energy has released its energyManager open source solution, built as an extension to RRDtool and the Cacti graphing solution.
A detailed tutorial on how to download and implement this free solution for measuring exactly how much energy is being used by the IT equipment is available from the site.
There is no doubt that a traditionally energy inefficient IT industry has room to make savings of between 10% and 20%. But overstretched IT departments seem reluctant, even with FREE software, to take the time to make these savings. There are just so many items of higher financial impact to be addressed.
The question we are left with is:
What will it take to make energy saving a priority?
Clearly the open source movement will make a difference, and we believe that if the solutions can be made sufficiently simple to implement, and the steps to affect change obvious, then our natural inclination to care for our resources will be allowed to take hold.
To participate in the discussion visit http://open4energy.com/blog
I see you are also using Drupal for your site. This is excellent, in my opinion, see http://open4energy.com/forum to see how well Drupal manages forum's and blogs - you may not want to have contributors use multiple sites.
Also, I need a SNMP supported device to use for home computing, either wireless, or wired for the home server etc, any idea do let me know.