Here is an interesting question.... Over the decades, we have always talked about energy savings, like some department manager cares.
In any of your shops, does IT actually pay for electricty? I've never seen a budget item. I'ved never seen an invoice. In fact, I've never seen the meter or meters that measures usage in a government or commercial building. As far as I know, there is a single meter on the building, somewhere, that measures the service for this 5 story building covering a square block with some 1,000 employees here. Now I don't know many department managers that would spend X dollars out of their budget to save Y dollars in someone elses budget. You might use the savings to justify the expenditure "up the line", but the savings are soft dollars. Never measured. Never seen. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/05 7:29 AM >>> > OK. *(scratches chin) *Check out that electric bill. *$200 per year > times 200 servers that were shut off. *Only $4k. * You folks were certainly kind to me for not pointing out my mathematical blunder. *200 servers times $200 = $40,000, not 4k. *So, if you have a z900 on the floor, and a Shark for storage, your annual cost of electricity for those 2 boxes, at $.068/kwh, would be less than $4,000. * That's a substantial savings which usually comes off of some other department's budget, but a good justification none the less. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
