Young-il Kwon, Director, Green IT Project Department, South Korea’s National Information Society Agency (NIA), told FutureGov that to achieve its goal, California will need to focus it efforts on server consolidation, using virtualisation as a means to make much of the US$1.4 billion governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to make in savings for state coffers over the next two years.
“In my view, a 30 per cent energy reduction target is a very aggressive goal,” Kwon said. “Servers and storage can be reduced easily enough. But common facilities, such as uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and cooling systems, still need to operate. To achieve its aim, California will need to dramatically cut down on servers.”
An executive order signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on February 9th 2010 set a target of June 2013 for the state’s 500 agencies and departments to close their server rooms, with a mandate to cut energy consumption by 30 per cent by 2012. By July this year, all agencies have been ordered to begin moving their mission-critical and public-facing applications to a hosted environment in a Tier 3 data centre.
The Governor noted that IT accounts for 40 per cent of energy used within office environments, and while IT accounts for only two per cent of global greenhouse emissions currently, that figure will increase to four per cent by 2020 “without concerted action”.
Meanwhile, the Korean government aims to make energy savings of 15 per cent by consolidating the IT systems of 40 central government ministries into two national data centres equipped with new energy-saving features and cooling systems, according to Kwon of the NIA. Furthermore, 4687 servers will consolidated to cut hardware by 46 per cent, to 2535 servers, by 2012.
These initiatives are part of Korea’s ‘National Green IT Strategy’, which will see 4.3 trillion won (US$3.6 billion) invested in projects to bring about a carbon emissions reduction of 18.4 million tons. This falls under a wider directive from President Lee Myung-bak for Korea to follow a “low carbon, green growth” strategy, with a mission to make the IT sector more energy efficient, how to use IT to transform society, and for Korea to become a world leader in green technology.
Another key part of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order is securing government IT operations. Cabinet agencies have been instructed to appoint an Information Security Officer (Agency ISO), who will report to the agency CIO. ISOs will be tasked to investigate, resolve, and report all information security incidents to the Office of Information Security (OIS), which will sit within the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO), a cabinet-level agency with statutory authority over IT policy.
In Korea, at local and central government level, agencies have designated Chief Security Officers (CSOs), although in many agencies the CSO role is fulfilled by the agency CIO. In June 2009, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) set up the Korea Association of Chief Security Officers, or CSO Korea, a public-private community of 150 public and private sector members, to tackle the rising threat from cyber crime.
Meanwhile, the newly appointed President of the National Computing and Information Agency (NCIA), Chang Kwang-soo, has outlined his objectives for 2010, which include green IT and info-security as two of his top three priorities.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Robin Hicks
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 21.02.2010
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