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Health Insurance Company Tops the List (LINK)

March 24th 2008 08:10
Recently, Computerworld surveyed some 86 companies to find out which ones came top of the list in terms of green IT usage.

Significantly – maybe even ironically - a health insurance company, Highmark Inc, came first.

Computerworld had crafted the survey (with the help of The Green Grid, Forrester Research and Base Partners) in order to discover which companies were doing the most to reduce energy and to implement technology that would cut energy and carbon emissions.

86 companies responded to the questions about their energy and carbon goals, their encouragement of employees, the way they purchased, their green incentives, recycling, their air conditioning, the layout of their data centres, their increase in such things as energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Highmark came first partly because it had built its new, LEED-certified data centre completely out of recycled materials. Even though the new centre is three times larger than the old one, the cost of energy remains the same. At one extreme Highmark uses the technologically advanced process of server virtualization and at the other collects rainwater to cool the building.

(In server virtualization the server administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into several isolated virtual environments – it’s similar to partitioning your own PC. )

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