Recommendation : 3. Adapt the use of technical equipment to needs
Are Open Source solutions implemented when available ?
Systems (software)
B People
C Planet
A Prosperity
Difficulty
N/A
Priority
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Récurrence
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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
Systems (software)
Is the size of the physical park in line with the number of virtual machines to be run ?
Energy
Are servers / routers turned off when not in use ?
Systems (software)
Is the allocated memory based on actual use ?
Systems (software)
Is the number of CPU cores allocated based on actual use ?
Systems (software)
Is the technical choice (shared, dedicated, clustered) optimised between the actual need and energy efficiency ?
Systems (software)
Are unused cores disabled ?
Systems (software)
Is the backup system incremental (disk optimization) ?
Systems (software)
Is the use of containers over virtual machines preferred ?
Equipment (hardware)
Is high availability designed in a modular fashion ?
Equipment (hardware)
Is provisioning / deprovisionning dynamic depending on the load ?
Equipment (hardware)
Do storage solutions reduce the number of components (for example: high density SSD media) ?