A new software to reduce carbon footprint

MUMBAI, INDIA: Even as world leaders are gathering at Copenhagen in a bid to explore ways to curtail carbon emission, a new software, which claims to to help carbon footprint in labs of educational institutes has been developed by a Pune-based company.

The software, 'Colama', developed by Coriolis Technologies, was launched by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) recently, as part of three-day Homi Bhabha centenary celebrations in Mumbai, according to a PTI report.

Specially developed for Indian university environment by Coriolis Technologies, Colama enables educational institutes to play their role in addressing the challenges of global climate protection by offering better energy-efficient computing, claimed the website of Coriolis Technologies.

It also enables institutes to consolidate their physical server requirements to a minimum by intelligently using the un-utilized resources of the lab computers. Colama offers up to 70 per cent savings on annual power and cooling cost.

Also, Colama increases the machine re-cycling cycle by 80-100 per cent thereby reducing the amount of e-waste generated by the institutes, adds the website.

The software will also enable students to work in a virus-free environment in their college labs, Basant Rajan, director and CEO of Coriolis said.

With Colama, the institutes have certain other advantages too as they need to buy less number of physical computers, less costly/powerful (may be thin client) desktops for students. And also, due to its storage optimizing technology, one needs to buy 50-70 per cent less storage than required by the student's virtual machines, says the website.