Aiming to reduce its carbon footprint while reducing costs, improving productivity and overall efficiency, Applied Materials India launched ‘Operation Green.’ The project aimed to leverage Green IT ideals and principles across the entire stack of IT Infrastructure right from end user computing to data center computing, network infrastructure and unified communications. Operation Green aims to contribute towards realizing the organization’s global goal of 10,000 tons of carbon footprint reduction by 2012.

As part of the project, old servers were replaced with new energy efficient servers at the server end. The company also deployed VMware’s ESX Cluster along with cluster file servers, simplified folder structure, and Self Serve Tools. To reduce carbon footprint associated with travel, the company deployed audio, web, desktop and video conferencing solutions.

At the end user level, by enabling hibernation modes, the company, which has around 825 desktops/workstations and 280 laptops, saved $42 a year per desktop/workstation and $4 a year per laptop. By deploying LCD monitors, the company reduced monitor power consumption costs to $15 per monitor per year.

The deployment of MFDs allowed the company to achieve savings of up to 20 percent in terms of paper costs and consumption. While the deployment of virtual servers has enabled the company to achieve a 50:50 ratio of virtual machines to physical machines, the introduction of blade servers in the data center has reduced cabling, energy and power consumption and data center footprint.
 
Highlights

    * Savings per year of $42 per desktop/workstation and $4 per laptop with energy saving modes
    * 20 percent savings in printing costs with MFD implementations
    * Data center and carbon footprint reduced with virtualization and blade server adoption