GOING GREEN
With energy costs in a typical data center doubling every five years, there is growing demand for software and systems that can reduce the need for electricity and make more efficient use of existing resources. Symantec and DLT are committed to bringing environmental benefits to your agency’s data center through specialized infrastructure management software. Symantec designs and sells products that provide a positive environmental impact for customers, which is not only good for the earth, but is also good for your agency. Together Symantec and DLT can help lower your utility bills and reduce your carbon footprint.
Resources:
Benefit your agency by learning more about going green! 
Register for the whitepapers below to learn more!
- Whitepaper: Green Data Center Storage Part 1
- Whitepaper: Green Data Center Storage Part 2
- Whitepaper: ‘Green’ Solutions for Federal Data Center Consolidation
How-To Guide for Greening IT in Government: the public sector’s guide to going “green”.
Green Value:
Green data centers not only have a positive environmental impact, they also generate cost savings and performance benefits. Check out some of the products and services that have green value for Symantec customers
- CommandCentral Storage finds regions of wasted space and inactive data across an enterprise and enables administrators to utilize memory assets more efficiently.
- NetBackup reduces the space needed for storage by eliminating duplicate data in memory.
- Enterprise Vault eradicates duplicate email messages and dramatically shrinks storage – and power – requirements.
- Altiris Energy Saver Toolkit enables administrators to aggressively manage desktop and workstation energy consumption.
- Veritas Cluster Server delivers high availability while improving server utilization to reduce overall power and cooling requirements.
- Application Director allows physical and virtual server consolidation to reduce power consumption and slow the growth of new hardware installation.
- Storage Foundation provides storage tiering to move non-critical data to less energy-demanding storage sites.
Green-Bag Facts:
Consumption
- According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. (Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion)
Environmental Impact
- Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photodegrade – breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest.
- “Paper is better than plastic, right?” The answer is, neither is good. It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
Solution
- In 2001, Ireland consumed 1.2 billion plastic bags, or 316 per person. An extremely successful plastic bag consumption tax, or PlasTax, introduced in 2002 reduced consumption by 90%. Approximately 18,000,000 liters of oil have been saved due to this reduced production. Governments around the world are considering implementing similar measures.
