LEAN & GREEN LEADERSHIP™
Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business Gain
A BPM Forum GREEN Authority Leadership Campaign in Conjunction with BlueArc Corporation

In a world of toxic computer waste and pervasive energy shortfall, IT executives, operations influencers and buyers are seeking cost-effective ways to implement green practices across the enterprise. Specifically, the accelerating energy demands and rampant waste of the corporate data center are driving a new urgency to halt server proliferation and to consolidate and virtualize storage.

To support businesses as they move toward these goals, the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum’s Global Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN) has teamed with storage leader BlueArc Corporation, which is driving unmatched IT consolidation and sustainable computing practices to the enterprise, in a bold program of Lean & Green Leadership.

Building Awareness and Action to Make a Difference 

Lean & Green Leadership addresses data center power consumption—estimated to equal that of five power plants each year. In the last five years alone, energy expenditures and requirements have doubled, while computer disposal is the fastest growing type of waste in the world, according to top Stanford researchers and Greenpeace.

Using online polling of executives and IT technologists, Lean & Green Leadership creates a pool of intellectual capital for organizations dealing with the issues, challenges, and opportunities of environmentally responsible computing. The program advocates and demonstrates that green computing is not only environmentally essential—but a vastly superior business strategy that will lower costs while increasing IT yield and data productivity. Consolidation of servers will dramatically reduce the high power use of cooling, simplify data infrastructures, and optimize processing resources.

Measuring the Benefits of a New Lean & Green Approach 

BlueArc and GREEN, the BPM Forum are building an innovative program with a substantial and growing base of authoritative information to help guide businesses and address concerns about this fundamental evolution in computing. The program will: 

• Conduct comprehensive IT surveys around key lean and green issues
• Commission and present authoritative articles  
• Offer compelling white papers and case studies 
• Stimulate third-party data gathering and executive insight
• Assemble an advisory board of notable industry experts and contributors
• Gather information about resources currently dedicated to green initiatives  
• Confront and discuss challenges in creating efficient, environmental data centers
• Quantify key drivers for green IT initiatives—including potential savings, regulatory pressures, and positive public perception