EDS and the Environment

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-	==Summary==	+	==MI Summaries==
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		+	===EDS Targets Carbon Emissions in Major Green Program (09 July 2007)===
		+	EDS in Australia and New Zealand is targeting a reduction in carbon use by 25% within the next three years. The program will focus on three key areas within the organisation, 1) Applying mechanisms to address employee carbon usage, 2) Developing internal initiatives to increase productivity & efficiency and 3) further developing a set of service offerings that will allow EDS customers to reduce their impact upon the environment.
-	==What the Vendor says about itself==	+	EDS believe that this program will take their environmental commitment to another level and will compliment with their corporate responsibility initiatives. The carbon saving measures being introduced by the corporation include the introduction of a sophisticated video conferencing system which will allow for domestic air travel to be reduced by 20-30%, in addition to this energy efficient lighting and recycling programs will also be used, the company estimates that this will help them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1000 tons per year.
-	The Greening of IT
-	by Charlie Bess
-	Recently EDS joined one of the many IT organizations oriented around energy efficient computing – Climate Savers. We’ve written a few blog entries on the impact of power like: this and this. In fact if I include the impact of battery technology, it seems to be one of the topics that we seem to go back to more than just about any other.	+	===The Greening of IT (10 July 2007)===
		+	EDS has recently joined Climate Savers (one of the major IT organisations orientated around energy efficiency computing.)
-	The Climate Savers group has some pretty aggressive goals -- “By 2010, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative will cut greenhouse gas emissions in an amount equal to removing more than 11 million cars from the road or shutting down 20 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants – a significant step in reducing the emissions affecting our planet,” said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group.	+	It appears that power utilisation is a driver of change within more and more industries. Consequently virtualisation looks as though it is going to have a tremendous impact on the efficiency and power consumption of the data centre of the future.
-	Power utilization appears to be a driver of change within more and more industries. Virtualization is going to have tremendous impact on the efficiency and power consumption of the data centre of the future. New CPU architectures and the use of multi-core technologies (like Sun’s efforts around CoolThreads) is also having its effect on reducing the power hungry dependence we’ve developed on over clocked monolithic processors. The implications on how we write code though have yet to make their way into the universities or IT shops. This is much more than just an infrastructure play.	+	==Coverage in the Press==
		+	* [[Verizon Business helps EDS "go green" (31-Jul-07)]]
		+	* [[EDS Australia goes Green with Fuji Xerox (16-Aug-07)]]
-	(1)	+	==What the Vendor says about itself==
-		+	* [[EDS Targets Carbon Emissions in Major Green Program (9-Mar-07)]]
-	==Source==	+	* [[The Greening of IT (10-Jul-07)]]
-	*1. [http://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/archive/2007/06/20/the-greening-of-it.aspx EDS website]	+	==Sources==

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Contents 1 MI Summaries 1.1 EDS Targets Carbon Emissions in Major Green Program (09 July 2007) 1.2 The Greening of IT (10 July 2007) 2 Coverage in the Press 3 What the Vendor says about itself 4 Sources

MI Summaries

EDS Targets Carbon Emissions in Major Green Program (09 July 2007)

EDS in Australia and New Zealand is targeting a reduction in carbon use by 25% within the next three years. The program will focus on three key areas within the organisation, 1) Applying mechanisms to address employee carbon usage, 2) Developing internal initiatives to increase productivity & efficiency and 3) further developing a set of service offerings that will allow EDS customers to reduce their impact upon the environment.

EDS believe that this program will take their environmental commitment to another level and will compliment with their corporate responsibility initiatives. The carbon saving measures being introduced by the corporation include the introduction of a sophisticated video conferencing system which will allow for domestic air travel to be reduced by 20-30%, in addition to this energy efficient lighting and recycling programs will also be used, the company estimates that this will help them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1000 tons per year.

The Greening of IT (10 July 2007)

EDS has recently joined Climate Savers (one of the major IT organisations orientated around energy efficiency computing.)

It appears that power utilisation is a driver of change within more and more industries. Consequently virtualisation looks as though it is going to have a tremendous impact on the efficiency and power consumption of the data centre of the future.

Coverage in the Press

• Verizon Business helps EDS "go green" (31-Jul-07)
• EDS Australia goes Green with Fuji Xerox (16-Aug-07)

What the Vendor says about itself

• EDS Targets Carbon Emissions in Major Green Program (9-Mar-07)
• The Greening of IT (10-Jul-07)

Sources