Green informatization in CIO's mind

With the increasing attention to global warming, it is being named "Penguin killer" while bringing about information civilization. The new wave of green it is coming to us. Whether it is from the practicality of the information system, from saving energy and reducing consumption, or optimizing the configuration of resources, sustainability should all be taken into consideration by corporate CIOs in their selection. Whether it is informatization or digitalization, it is necessary to set up the Enterprise as needed, rather than for the purpose of the facade. Only in this way can we truly embark on a road of emerging enterprises with Chinese characteristics, convincing.

Mengniu Group and Shuanghui group are well-known Leading Enterprises in China. Their business formats include manufacturing, procurement, and sales. Their systems must be complex and the data volume must be large, how data is shared, what is the hardware investment, and what kind of information systems support the development of tens of billions of enterprises? CIOs know that more than half of the data center's energy consumption comes from various devices. In general, if the data volume and application scale of the software system are increased, the hardware increases, and the power consumption, radiation, and corresponding greenhouse gas emissions increase, the faster an enterprise develops, the greater the damage it system has to the environment. Such an IT system is obviously not "green. It is understood that Google's effective approach to their big data center is to reduce the number of all its data centers and improve server efficiency.

After reading the "small data center big group" report published in the computer world newspaper, I felt suddenly enlightened. I learned from reporters that Mengniu's data center is only 10 square meters and Shuanghui data center is more than 50 square meters. It can be seen that the data centers are not necessarily large, and they can also create outstanding achievements in large groups. The most impressive sentence in this article is: "Shuanghui Liu Xiaobing believes that 'the larger the enterprise is, the smaller the data center 'is, which is the target that CIOs should pursue, enterprises must never compare their data centers, because they all use money." Big enterprises like Shuanghui use "five one" (one database, one application, one data center, one server and one network, one team) supporting the daily operation of more than 80 corporate entities, more than 600 offices, more than 120 branches, more than 40 factories, and more than 700 chain stores within Shuanghui group, in addition, thousands of distributors are using the system online for business exchanges with Shuanghui. It really opened my eyes and felt very pragmatic. Isn't this the green informatization model we are looking forward?