Regus, the managed offices company,
has reduced thecarbon footprintof its datacentres
usingSmartbunker's zero-carbon data-hosting
services.
Businesses are now looking at making datacentres efficient
through
Green IT inititives, in an effort to tackle the cooling and
power requirements of running a modern data centre.
Mike Brockington, chief technology officer at Regus, said, "Our
corporate purchasing policy gives clear guidance in that we should
take the environmental implications of our supply chain into
account when choosing suppliers."
By using Smartbunker, Regus has been able to reduce the carbon
footprint of hosting its web application to zero, while benefiting
from a secure datacentre infrastructure.
The Smartbunker data-centre is purpose built to provide
high-performance managed hosting services using zero-carbon
energy.
Power used within the 30,000-square-foot data centre is free
from carbon emissions. Smartbunker uses
IBM BladeCenter servers, which it said offers energy savings in
the region of 60% over standard servers. BT provides Smartbunker
with triple-redundant, tier one internet connectivity, and
Ecotricity supplies Smartbunker with zero-carbon power generated
entirely from renewable sources.
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