SynapSense and AT&T Wins Award from Uptime Institute for Green Efforts

Go green to save the world has been the mantra of many companies and this has been followed by SynapSense and AT&T (News - Alert) with continuous green IT efforts. This noble deed was recognized at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 for their efforts implementing energy efficiency improvements at an AT&T data center.

Both the companies were recognized as part of Uptime’s 2011 Green Enterprise IT Awards for their collective work in AT&T’s data center. The project involved optimization of data center efficiency by continuously aligning cooling capacity with IT load, and provided energy savings for the AT&T data center that helped it to qualify for an incentive program offered by AT&T’s regional utility service.

“SynapSense was proud to work with AT&T on this data center optimization project in which our Data Center Energy Management technology helped generate significant energy savings for AT&T,” said Peter Van Deventer, CEO of SynapSense.

This new implementation has worked wonders for AT&T with 25 percent reduction in cooling energy per year in the data center. Using the cooling optimization technology AT&T was able to achieve greater return on investment that reached in less than 26 months.

“The energy management solution we implemented has dramatically increased reliability and resiliency in our data center facility, and has resulted in substantial energy and cost savings for that facility,” said Paul Vetter, Director Property Management Texas, AT&T.

AT&T‘s other green effort includes the replacement of 15,000 fleet vehicles with more fuel-efficient models through 2018. AT&T currently operates a fleet of more than 77,000 vehicles. Officials at AT&T said that they expect to replace 7,100 passenger cars over the next10 years.

The alternative-fuel vehicles, which will be used by employees in a variety of diverse work functions across AT&T's operations, are expected to offer up to a 39 percent improvement in fuel economy and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 29 percent.