Green computing from TruITSupport Brisbane Queensland Australia IT computer system support

Green services by Tru IT Support Brisbane Australia:

Green IT should be easy but it is essential that systems remain reliable so planning important.

You might ask? If everyone has access to the same computers, how can you improve your green computing credentials?

If you follow our tips here you can be a bit more Eco friendly but if you really want to lower costs contact Tru IT Support

There are lots of things you can do to lower your power consumption at little or no expense and still have a stunning, simple, secure and reliable system, for example:

As you may have seen in other articles your choice of operating systems can have an effect on power usage. While you might be forced into using Windows on you desktop computers for application compatibility reasons, you could for instance use a Redhat Linux powered server to help lower power consumption.
Using terminal server and low powered desktops is another realistic method of lowering your total power usage. In this case the client computers do not even need to be running windows for the user to have access to the windows programs.
Making sure that users only have the amount of computing that they require, and not the highest specified the fastest whiz bang capital and power consuming machine in the catalogue. People doing CAD design need fast GPU's (Graphics Processing Unit), for most of us the on board graphics card is just fine and uses considerably less power.
Making sure that computers are turned off when not in use is another low cost power saver. It should be the policy for most of us to turn of computers and monitors when not in use. We would suggest during the day just turning off the monitor and powering down the computer, but at night and on the weekends turning them both off at the power point. Exceptions can be made to this policy. For instance, where remote login is required, even then your monitors can probably be turned off.

If your business is in the Brisbane (Australia) area, Tru IT Support will audit your existing computer systems and give you a free written recommendation on lowering your overall power consumption. Just use the Contact page free IT power usage audit.

Using the Asus eeebox or similar computers running certain Linux Operating systems you can have the best of all worlds. You can greatly lower power consumption, You can have access to all you Windows programs and you have a fully functional desktop which can function off line and lower demand on your server.

High performance computing on only 20 Watts

Lowering power consumption could improve your business bottom line and send a signal to you customers that your organisation has a green conscience.

The EEEPC as supplied by ASUS is a bit of a dog for commercial computing. It either comes with a cut down copy of XP home (probably because Vista is too heavy to run on it), or it comes with a prettied up copy of linux which at least allows the full potential of the machine to be used if you know how.

At TruItSupport we completly replace the operating systems supplied with another version of Linux. This allows us to run business applications such as Terminal Server for a windows thin client and still give users access to a fat clients if they need it.

A user can therefore be using MYOB as a thin client on terminal server and at the same time be maintaing his spreadsheed or browsing the web without impacting on the windows server

Since the Eee Box only requires around 20 watts of power, your carbon footprint can be lowered by about 90% compared to a standard PC of today.

Specifications: Intel’s Atom N270 1.6GHz single-core processor, an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, 802.11n wireless plus a 1 Gigabit LAN port and four USB ports plus a multi-format memory card reader.

24/7 Servers drawing only 30 Watts

TruItSupport. Have designed servers for sites with up to 10 windows clients that draw less than 30 Watts. These servers are designed to support Windows remote profiles, File shareing, Printer Sharing and Internet sharing. While these machines have normaly been deployed as "branch office" machines they are suitable for a small business that wants 24/7 assess from outside while still keeping the carbon footprint and costs as low as possible.

These micro servers machines can have up to 1TB of storage