PTC acquires a Green compliance expert

With its recent acquisition of Synapsis Technology PTC is setting its sights on Green product design and environmental regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

Synapsis’ EMARS environmental compliance management solution is already used in product development at Cisco, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Motorola, Microsoft ou Sony, along with other product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions from the same vendor. Financial details of the privately-held company’s acquisition, with its 25 employees, by PTC have not been disclosed.

A new all-Green Datacenter for Sanef

Sanef is on of the biggest toll-road operators in France, with over 1700km of motorways in the north and east of France under management. It also has extensive telecommunications operations managed through a subsidiary, Sanef Télécoms. With its datacenter close to saturation, Sanef Télécoms decide to it was time build a new one.

“Following a preliminary technical study we identified various vendors capable of helping us to develop a next-generation datacenter – flexible, delivering dramatically lower power consumption, and supporting high-density installations. APC, besides answering all our technical requirements, demonstrated that they offered a high level of expertise and the full range of skills necessary to design a long-lasting, highly available datacenter. Flexiblity was also important and APC’s modular solutions are the perfect answer to the environmental issues we’re dealing with today” explains Philippe Duthoit, Director of Sanef Télécoms.

Free cooling

Building of the 250m² high-security facility started in May 2008.  To ensure maximum uptime while limiting the environmental impact of the datacenter, Sanef Télécoms has deployed two APC Symmetra MegaWatt UPSs, along with 16 InRow RC precision air-conditioning units.

“We wanted to deploy a free-cooling solution which respected the environment.

A Datacenter Code of Conduct to reduce emissions

A 20% reduction in datacenter CO2 emissions between now and 2020, that’s the target set by the European Union. To help businesses and public entities achieve this, the Renewable Energies Unit of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a Code of Conduct describing methods, metrics and best practices (Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency. Version 1.0).

The code is purely voluntary; there’s no legal obligation. But it includes a self-certification page which the data center manager is invited to sign and fax back, committing the company to keeping the JRC informed through regular progress reports.

Two other documents are available from the same web page, a more detailed best practices guide, fleshing out the summary chapter in the Code of Conduct, and a very practical spreadsheet for use in measuring and reporting.

Welcome to the new Itgreening.com website !

 

Yet another Green IT site? Yes – and no. Itgreening.com delivers the news and information CIOs, CFOs, and project managers need to effectively Green the IT infrastructure. Best practices, the latest technologies and strategies, essential reading, white papers, expert opinion – ITGreening intends to be the reference site, and a meeting point for industry practioners.

Launched by VMware and Intel, two vendors particularly implicated in the Green IT movement, www.itgreening.com has been developed for the enterprise CIO by people who understand the enterprise information systems environment.

Intel participates in the Climate Savers initiative, which has the objective of reducing annual emission of CO2 by 54 billion tons. VMware is behind the Green Grid, where it has been joined by most major IT industry players including Intel. For more information go to www.greengrid.org.

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