Smart Green Infrastructure for Innovation and Transformation Hosting Environments

This paper provides an overview on the importance and evolution of Smart Green Infrastructure in Innovation and Transformation Hosting Environments. The paper describes how IBM, for its internal data center environments, has been integrating technology areas such as Mobile, Predictive Analytics, Cloud computing, big data such as Hadoop, Monitoring, and Agile environments. The future of Smart Green Infrastructure will depend on how dynamically an IT team can carve out the needs for implementing complex projects in a quick, easy, structured and dynamic environment while focusing in the innovation space using advanced technology. The paper describes how such Smart Green Infrastructures are managed and maintained to promote Green initiatives for Innovation while leveraging the use of predictive analytics in the environment. Case studies are described that include discussions on challenges faced and lessons learned.