Green your IT with HCLT ISD

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Data centers are a major consumer of energy in the overall operations of an enterprise. In order to handle the sheer magnitude of today’s data, data centers have to use much more power and servers have become larger, denser, hotter, and significantly more costly to operate.

According to statistics, the global computing network consumes more that 100bn kW of electricity, which translates to massive $7.2bn. Power consumption by data centers has also doubled between 2000 and 2005. In fact, enterprises spend 25 percent of their total IT budget on the cost of energy.

This situation is no different in India, considering that businesses are growing across all verticals. The latest Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of CIOs states that Indian firms have reported increased spending to the requirement of building new business capabilities, with 30 percent of IT spend allocated for business growth and 19 percent for business transformation.

All of this growth will have widespread energy implications, and enterprises, together with IT vendors, are gearing up to address the issue by ‘greening’ their data centers.

This is one of the reasons Green IT has moved from being a favorite topic of environmentalists to one of the hottest buzzwords in mainstream IT business. A green initiative at the data center level will help a company regain power and cooling capacity, resiliency and help meet business goals while at the same time dramatically reducing energy costs and total cost of ownership.

HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division (HCLT ISD) has developed a Green Datacenter solution that focuses on a gamut of energy efficient opportunities where it can leverage its strong expertise and experience in Datacenter Management and Transformation Services; and help the customers achieve significant energy and cost savings enabling a healthy bottom line.

HCL’s Datacenter Solution Framework involves virtualization, consolidation, datacenter structural changes, and facility non-structural changes.

Why HCL’s Green IT solution?

* HCL is the first company to have a comprehensive environment management program - First to be ISO14001 compliant.

* First company in India to have a comprehensive policy on Waste of Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) European Union (2002/96/EC).

* First company in India to launch RoHS compliant laptops. All HCL Laptops are RoHS compliant.

* Upcoming 46-acre facility spread over two million square feet housing 15,000 HCLites in finely landscaped, eco friendly buildings.

* HCL Technologies Ltd is a National member of US Green Building Council (USGBC), which is the parent body of LEED certification.