EDS and the Environment

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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