With today’s high cost of data center real estate, the increasing cost of energy, and companies’ desire to be more eco-friendly, having an efficient infrastructure is on everyone’s minds. An Applied Trust Ecoinfrastructure® assessment can help you improve the efficiency of your infrastructure by identifying ways to reduce your data center footprint, reduce your energy costs, and reduce your ongoing operational costs while  optimizing availability.

Organizations can benefit from Applied Trust’s Ecoinfrastructure^® assessment in the following ways:

• Reduced capital costs
• Stronger bottom line through significantly reduced operating costs (including reduced energy consumption and reduced system administration labor)
• Enhanced support for the environment
• Improved employee morale and workplace environment
• Improved corporate image as a “green business,” which can provide a marketing or recruiting edge

Ecoinfrastructure Assessment Elements

Our Ecoinfrastructure® assessment includes review and analysis of the following infrastructure elements:

• Current utilization management
• Tools, training, and processes for efficient operations
• Telecommunication and telemeeting methods and technologies
• Server virtualization
• Hardware life cycle management, including eco-friendly equipment, packaging recycling and disposal planning components
• Data center design, including: Energy-efficient lighting and standby power sources, Removal of toxic building components, and Energy-efficient computing hardware

• Eco-friendly cooling and power generation
• Staff knowledge of eco-impact

Applied Trust engineers will work closely with your staff to ensure that a thorough assessment is conducted. All assessment recommendations will be clearly documented and presented in an actionable manner, such that network and system administrators can use the document as a guide for mitigation.

The Ecoinfrastructure® Pledge

Applied Trust believes a successful business is dependent on a healthy environment. We are actively working to show our environmental responsibility to our community by committing to the following objectives in our own IT operations:

• To comply with all applicable environmental regulations and strive to exceed compliance requirements.
• To conserve energy, water, materials, and other resources.
• To develop, implement, and utilize practices and technologies that prevent pollution and waste.
• To be an environmentally responsible business within our community.
• To strive for continuous improvement.

We are committed to providing the same level of dedication to minimizing our clients’ impact on the environment as we do for our own organization.

Contact us today to see how we can help with your organization's “Green IT initiative".