Jimat tenaga dengan IBM

MENYEDARI betapa pentingnya alam sekitar kepada manusia, syarikat teknologi maklumat (IT) seperti IBM mula memperkenalkan Projek ‘Big Green’ bagi penjimatan tenaga lebih efi syen untuk perniagaan.

Naib Presiden, IT Optimization dan Sistem Perisian IBM, Richard Lechner, berkata projek terbabit disasarkan kepada pusat data bagi korporat di mana tenaga menjadi isu utama selain kosnya yang boleh membantutkan kebolehan untuk berkembang pesat.

“Pelanggan boleh mengharapkan penjimatan besar.

Contohnya, pusat data berkeluasan 25,000 kaki persegi mampu menjimatkan 42 peratus tenaga,” kata Lechner.

Menurutnya, kebanyakan pusat data mengalami masalah kapasiti yang mencapai tahap maksimum sehingga mengehadkan kemampuan syarikat untuk berkembang.

“Hari ini kami membekalkan pelanggan dengan pelan tindakan kami untuk membolehkan pusat data mereka digunakan dengan sepenuhnya selain efi syen dalam penggunaan tenaga,” katanya.

Projek Big Green menggunakan kepakaran teknologi tenaga pintar untuk membolehkan lima pendekatan untuk memperbaharui tahap efi syen tenaga.

Ia termasuk diagnosis iaitu menilai prasarana sedia ada, membina atau mengemaskini tenaga pusat data, menjadikan prasarana IT ke arah maya, menguruskan tenaga pengurusan perisian dan eksploitasi penyelesaian penyejukan cecair.

PM: Use renewable energy

KUDAT: Use the forces of nature to harness alternative and renewable energy for villagers, said the Prime Minister.
Noting that sunlight, wind and water were plentiful in remote areas, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said it only made sense to use them to generate electricity for rural communities.
Launching the country's first High Impact Rural Development Programme in northern Pulau Banggi, some 300km from Kota Kinabalu yesterday, Abdullah said conventional power generation systems for rural communities were traditionally costly.

"Rural electrification is too expensive," he said, adding that generating power using solar cells and wind turbines in remote locations was viable in the face of escalating diesel and petrol prices.
He told reporters later that although Malaysia would have to import such equipment for now, the country has the capability of developing its own technology as there were already plants producing solar cells in the country.
Abdullah said he was pleased that the RM167mil agripolitan scheme on the 440sq km island was the nation's first high impact rural development programme incorporating hybrid solar power generation.
Noting that a component of the scheme was the setting up of 4,000ha of rubber plantations for the hardcore poor on the island, he said other agriculture-related activities should also be emphasised.
The Prime Minister said villagers should not measure development just by the number of industries established in their localities.
"Do not look down on agriculture," said Abdullah, adding that the Banggi islanders' involvement in diverse activities including tourism and aquaculture through the scheme would serve as an example of Malaysia's innovative approach in tackling rural poverty.