Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 60

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology At a glance… “TODAY SMALL CELLS ARE ALSO BEING USED TO PIONEER VALUE-ADDED SERVICES SUCH AS INDOOR GEO-NAVIGATION, TRAFFIC ANALYSIS AND MORE ENGAGING DIGITAL MARKETING PLATFORMS. THEY TRULY ARE PART OF TODAY’S SMART CITY SERVICES.” connectivity anytime and anywhere, small cell technology will be able to fulfill this increasing demand for mobile coverage capacity requirement in high-density area, which traditional solutions have not been able to handle. Small cells are strong enough to address increased data traffic within complex vicinities such as stadiums, shopping malls, traffic hubs, aiding in an improved user experience” notes by Marvin Chen, Vice President of Huawei Small Cell Product Line. “Today small cells are also being used to pioneer value-added services such as indoor geo-navigation, traffic analysis and more engaging digital marketing platforms. They truly are part of today’s smart city services.” Globally Huawei has launched multiband, multi-mode small cells and has won more than 180 small cell contracts. As a flagship Huawei small cell solution, the company’s LampSite offering has already been deployed in public areas like the popular Dubai Mall, with connectivity complaint rates reduced by around 70%. (For the full article, please visit www.intelligentcio.com/me) 60 INTELLIGENTCIO Integrating green IT into core business operations on the rise, says Gartner “Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment, allowing organisations to improve their environmental footprint by using equipment and services that have a lowcarbon footprint themselves,” says Vishal Tripathi, research director at Gartner. “As a result, the identification of wasteful and inefficient - or worse, environmentally harmful - consumption is becoming essential.” “Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for green IT provides a specific view of the adoption of green technologies and practices in enterprises’ organisations, said Anshul Gupta, research director at Gartner. It explores relevant green IT technologies, solutions and strategies that impact corporations, and the economy as a whole, to maintain sustainable growth. Enterprises can use the Hype Cycle to get an overall perspective, and to compare how certain technology use cases are faring in adoption versus others. Many technologies in data centre, storage and desktops have significantly reduced their energy consumption and have gone mainstream in their reduction of energy intake in idle modes and during a use phase. In Europe, the Ecodesign Directive 2005/32/ EC provides the framework for all energy-using consumer goods to be designed using the smallest energy footprint. CIOs and IT leaders who consider energy efficiency in sleep modes, or internal power supply efficiency, should look at extreme low-energy servers, together with server digital power module management systems and data center infrastructure management tools. On the mature side, E-Textbooks, which eliminate the use of paper, have a tremendous impact on energy efficiency and resource consumption. The operational cost of making energy-efficient resources available is pressuring CIOs to develop strategies to optimise their utilisation of information and communication technology, including companywide energy management, while not compromising on the growth or deployment of newer technologies. Gartner analysts see capacity planning and management tools, which design the power requirements for not only individual technologies, but also for an entire process or architecture, at the top of the Hype Cycle. This year, the Hype Cycle includes asset performance management for the first time. www.intelligentcio.com