Infosys Technologies : Green IT Implementation

Equivalent to planting 4,000 trees and throwing 244 cars off the road, this Green IT project promises to cut down CO2 emission by 1,087,296 pounds

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Following Nandan Nilekani's vision of reducing carbon footprints, which in turn evolved with Infosys's alarming finding that the IT industry is sucking up natural environmental resources at a rate which is 25% faster than the natural ability to be replenished, the company formulated a unique Green IT Implementation. It claims to convert legacy IT infrastructure to a 'green' system through a future proof solution leveraging virtualization and blade technology, pre-empting substantial investment, and energy savings as well as reduction in carbon footprint.

Determining the ROI using green IT products was the biggest problem faced, followed by encouraging adoption and implementing a Green IT strategy, and choosing the right partner to fit the bill. Once these hurdles were overcome, Infosys successfully deployed about 200 individual X86 servers running Windows 2000, 2003 OS for testing and validating various project requirements. These servers would be consolidated into 8 SUN Blade Servers each with 2x Quad Core Processors with 32 GB memory each, achieving close to 98% reduction in no.of servers. Server virtualization from VMWare was chosen as a vital component in project.

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