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Ecoinfrastructure

Ecoinfrastructure Overview
With today’s high cost of data center real estate, the increasing cost of energy, and your company’s desire to be more eco-friendly, infrastructure is on everyone’s mind. Applied Trust’s ECOINFRASTRUCTURE^® assessment will help you reduce your data center footprint, reduce your energy costs, and reduce your ongoing operational cost while improving 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)
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 and packaging recycling and disposal planning components
Data center design, including:
- Energy-efficient lighting and standby power
- Toxic building components
- 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 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 IT operations:

To comply with all applicable environmental regulations and strive to exceed compliance
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 are for our own organization.