Australia is enforcing all Australian companies to be compliant in energy consumption and sustainable workplaces. 

Refer tohttp://www.environment.gov.au/about-us/legislationandhttp://envlaw.com.au/

And 'National Action Plan.pdf' from your resource folder.

You are an IT project manager at South East Design and Marketing Pty ltd. (SEDM), and your new project is to lead a small team to ensure that SEDM is fully digitized and online in accordance with the newly proposed sustainability regulations from the Australian Federal government.

Your supervisor, IT director of SEDM, is keen to learn what improvements you can make for SEDM under what resources. He will directly report your work to the CEO of SEDM for immediate action.

These are some details about SEDM:

1.There are approximately 500 computers in 4- storey building.

2.There are 20 digital designers in Sydney office and 50 designers in Brisbane office.

3.There are 50 marketing professionals in Sydney office with only 2 in Brisbane office.

4.The computers are not turned off or in sleep mode during the nighttime

5.The building is equipped with approximately 200 lights

6.The building is equipped with 2 microwaves and fridges in each floor.

7.The building is equipped with centralized heating and air-conditioning (harder to measure the energy consumption)

8.Operating system and application software were installed on ad hoc manner

9.Desktops or servers are not virtualized

10.Printers are heavily used for colour printing and all business documents

11.Lights are on at nighttime for cleaners

Refer to the available sustainability projects in Appendix 1 and the case scenario, you are going submit a full report for SEDM on their project to improve sustainability.

Questions:

1.1Evaluate suitable ICT projects into which sustainability can be integrated

a)Evaluate available ICT projects (from the Appendix 1 and other resources) to identify suitable sustainability projects for SEDM.

b)Evaluate the option of computer virtualization or cloud computing for SEDM.

c)Evaluate the use of online collaborating platforms to replace printing (e.g. GitHub or Dropbox) in view of sustainability management.

1.2Negotiate with the stakeholders to establish the extent to which sustainability is to be integrated.

a)Evaluate the impacts of using cloud computing for SEDM. What operational changes are you expecting?

b)Consider your college as a side-example. What college operations can be offloaded to the cloud computing?

c)Identify which elements of the business cannot be offloaded to cloud computing or virtual computing.

1.3Research and identify suitable technology solutions applicable to the project.

a)Identify the available technological solutions to implement your selected sustainability project (e.g. for online file sharing, Dropbox, GitHub, draw.io or Creately.com)

b)Identify the available solutions the sustainability of SEDM. Consider green computers and reduction of energy-consuming devices (using environmentally friendly lights and other electronic devices) - Refer to Appendix 1.

c)Identify the price, cost and availability of the selected technology solution(s). Provide an executive summary only for senior management

1.4Gather power consumption data on ICT equipment required for an energy audit based on an agreed standard.

a)Calculate the energy consumption estimate based on the number of computers, servers, printers, and other energy-consuming devices.