With the increase in IT equipment, energy use by data centers has skyrocketed. To help reduce energy consumption and worldwide CO2 emissions by 330,000 tons between fiscal 2008 and 2013, Hitachi has developed a variety of Green IT solutions that are helping customers make their businesses more powerful, cost effective and efficient. Indeed, through its NAS Platform, Storage Management Solutions and Environmental Sustainability Solutions Services, Hitachi is helping U.S. organizations to be more sustainable – to their benefit and that of the planet and society as a whole.
When it comes to creating green data centers and helping businesses implement more environmentally conscious and sustainable IT practices, Hitachi is a recognized leader.
Fiber optic networks provide greater bandwidth and increased reliability while requiring fewer amplifiers and other “active” devices that consume electricity and generate heat in copper-based networks. Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. offers high-speed, ultra-reliable fiber optic communications solutions for metro and enterprise network applications, including mission-critical data center networking.
As the global consulting company of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT strategies and solutions to Global 2000 companies across many industries and the public sector. The company’s Environmental Sustainability Solutions Practice provides high-value services and solutions to help clients operationalize their sustainability programs and reduce their environmental footprint.
Hitachi Consulting provides a variety of Green IT and business consulting offerings, including:
Hitachi Consulting can help companies define and implement business processes and systems focused on collecting information related to key sustainability indicators, reports, dashboards, scorecards and trend analyses. These solutions can be applied broadly across many sustainability measures (such as a Sustainability Scorecard) or go very deep into one particular area (such as Facilities Energy Usage Monitoring). Companies with visibility into key sustainability indicators can determine where to make appropriate investments and evaluate where their existing investments are paying off.
Data centers account for 2 percent of all electricity usage in the United States, which is double the electricity usage since 2000. Along with other Hitachi companies, Hitachi Consulting can help define a green data center strategy and implement the required IT and facilities infrastructure with the goal of helping reduce expensive and unnecessary data center energy usage.
Hitachi Consulting can also help companies make their supply chain and manufacturing processes more efficient in terms of how they use energy, fuel, water and other raw materials. And Hitachi Consulting helps customers implement the business systems required to enable these processes.
Hitachi Consulting services related to defining and implementing document management, enterprise search and electronic collaboration solutions can help companies manage and achieve sustainability goals such as going paperless and reducing employee travel.
Organizations of all sizes are in a constant struggle to keep pace with their data storage needs. And as the amount of data has grown, so too has the power needed to manage, store and archive this data – and cool the servers performing this work. As a result, the costs of managing, storing and archiving data – both financial and environmental – have also risen dramatically. And companies have been looking to their IT providers to help them find ways to reduce their power consumption and work more efficiently.
Providing best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) offers businesses a wide range of efficient, sustainable IT and storage solutions that allow them to:
Hitachi Data Systems’ three-fold strategy for achieving these goals is to design, manufacture and support environmentallyfriendly storage infrastructures throughout their entire life cycle – including end-of-life disposal.
As a global leader and long-time innovator in storage solutions, Hitachi Data Systems has been integrally involved in researching and maturing sustainability practices and technologies intended to help organizations improve environmental IT practices, and the bottom line. To that end, HDS offers customers a number of green storage solutions, including:
One of the most advanced and resilient storage platforms in the industry, the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is also a Hitachi-certified Super Eco-Product that offers 40 percent greater capacity per square foot and 48 percent lower power consumption per terabyte compared to Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V.
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning reduces space, power and cooling costs with fewer physical disks required, resulting in a lower carbon footprint.
In addition, Hitachi can manage more capacity with a single controller engine, resulting in significant material cooling and space advantages.
