As part of
a drive to
optimise the energy
efficiency of its customers' IT equipment and facilities ,
Fujitsu has launched what it calls the Green Infrastructure
Solution service.
Fujitsu
architects, engineers and specialists with expertise in both IT and
construction, will assist customers with the planning, design,
deployment, and operation of their IT facilities wit the aim of
building highly energy-efficient datacentres. The scope of the
service will encompass buildings and machine rooms as well as
incidental facilities, such as for electric power and cooling,
which all together account for more than half the power consumed by
a datacentre.
The new
efficient IT
service aims to reduce customers' power consumption and CO2
emissions by as much as 50% of their current levels, excluding
however power savings from IT products themselves, such as servers
and storage systems. Moreover, Fujitsu claims that it will enable
IT systems to be expanded flexibly, unconstrained by power
capacity, and gradually optimised in accordance with IT budgets,
reducing the burdens associated with maintenance and renovation of
IT facilities.
The IT giant is
confident that will be able to achieve its aims and
improve IT efficiency in customers’ datacentres by using the
know-how on optimising energy efficiency gained from through the
design and operation of 50 datacentres across Japan.
The drivers for
the Green Infrastructure Solution are datacentre’s increased power
consumption and electric power costs. Furthermore, says Fujitsu,
due to the growth in the integration and scale of IT systems along
with their longer running hours, IT departments are now confronted
with inadequate power supplies and the burdens of augmenting and
maintaining additional power equipment.