Stevan has had an article on running a full range of IT services on very low power at Tectonic. The article can be accessed here.
Everything in that article delivers scalable services in addition to using little power.
Contact Stevan for more information on how these ideas can help you business use less power while still running efficient IT services.
Service providers and established IT companies are themselves trying to get to grips with how to make a business from Free Software, how best to advise customers who trust them to have the right answers and skills and how best to assist their workforce to develop new skills, sometimes well outside existing comfort zones, or target self-taught skills to be a business asset.
TNC Applied Technology can help. We can provide ideas and examples of services you can take to the market. We can be part of your pre-sales function to assure your customers that you have depth and access to the right skills when it comes to Free and Open Source software. We can provide your technical staff with pointers to develop their skills in an appropriate, business-centric manner.
Standard small and even medium sized company services can be supplied easily and cheaply using Free and Open Source software. And because Free Software tends to be pretty efficient, these services do not need powerful or energy-consuming hardware. One such installation supplying services for small family business runs on a low power server drawing just 20 watts of power.
Basic services are:-
Nagios systems monitoring and systems management may be done remotely.
These services are ideal for startups, remote offices, revamping an older infrastructure, or bringing “cloud” services, such as email provided by an ISP, in-house.