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Are Open Source solutions implemented when available ?

Advice 

Systems (software)

B People

C Planet

A Prosperity

Difficulty

N/A

Priority

/

Récurrence

/

Tests

Are Open Source solutions also evaluated against thei Sustainable IT criteria?

Precisions

An Open Source solution is not a guarantee of Sustainable IT practices and it should be compared to other available alternatives. However, Open Source allows to limit the ambitions and control of certain actors whose economic and social practices are opaque.

Additional elements

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

0 / 0

Life cycle

Acquisition

11 other criteria related to the recommendation: Adapt the use of technical equipment to needs

Recommendation Essential

Systems (software)

Is the size of the physical park in line with the number of virtual machines to be run ?

Recommendation

Energy

Are servers / routers turned off when not in use ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the allocated memory based on actual use ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the number of CPU cores allocated based on actual use ?

Advice

Systems (software)

Is the technical choice (shared, dedicated, clustered) optimised between the actual need and energy efficiency ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Are unused cores disabled ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the backup system incremental (disk optimization) ?

Advice

Systems (software)

Is the use of containers over virtual machines preferred ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Is high availability designed in a modular fashion ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Is provisioning / deprovisionning dynamic depending on the load ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Do storage solutions reduce the number of components (for example: high density SSD media) ?