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Behind the term Green IT, the goal is to reduce carbon footprint generated by the companies' Information Systems to earn money.

Information System becomes a key element of the environmental policy for companies.

Context


  • ICT represents 7 to 13% of french population electricity consumption
  • The electricity consumption by the telecom sector has raised to 7,5% between 2008 and 2009 (IDATE)
  • The WEEE represent 28 kg per year per person, which only 4 kg are recycled
  • Eco-responsibility becomes a purchase criteria for informatics equipments
  • A PC consumes 50 to 400 kWh/year

 

The questions to ask


  • What to begin with?
  • How to convince my management to go further?
  • What are the good indicators?
  • How to adhere all my employees?
  • What the economy I will get?

 

 

→  Express'to Green

  • A campaign of energetic measure on IT equipments to identify the reduction lever (smart PDU, measures software applications, etc.)
  • A typical questionnaires to analyze the actors' behaviour and identify the improvement ways
  • Modules of e-learning training course to accelerate the change management of Green IT policy

→  Bilan carbone© of IT perimeter concerned, with a specific application software

→  Piloting

  • Environmental reporting of IT activities (method and tools)
  • Sensitization and estimation devices of IT suppliers
  • Implementation

→  E-learning training course

  • Be able to discern Green IT and Greenwashing
  • Define the steps of Green IT strategy
  • Manage the labels, environmental normes and their advantages
  • Identify the main sources of energy consumption and CO2 emission within Information System

A training course collectively realised by M7, GreenIT.fr and Greenvision

 

Benefits

  • Consumption reduction of datacenter and desktops by the implementation of good practices, immediately applicable
  • Optimization of equipments use (life cycle assessment and running cost)
  • Identification of keys which involve the users
  • Preparation and  anticipation about the regulatory burdens

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT for Green integrates Informatics tools in a sustainable development policy.

Zen'to provides differents offers to sustainable development services:

Collaboratives solutions (communication, project management, e-learning, etc.)

 

 

Environmental reporting and CSR (conform to the GRI standard)

In partnership with AMEE and IVERIDIS

CO2 calculators specific to the professional sector (transport, energy, telecoms, etc.)

In partnership with AMEE and IVERIDIS

 

 

Carbon accounting

In partnership with Greenstone

 

 

You can download Zen'to's white book to help in your carbon accounting solution, click here

 

 

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a major transformation of the way to build, deploy and run IT softwares.

Cloud Computing may become a sustainable orientation and environment-friendly. Cloud Computing is directly in sustainable development  policy of the company and the Information System Direction is strenghtened.

With his software application expertise and Green IT, Zen'to is specialized in SaaS  of Cloud Computing.

 

We propose the following services :

→ Audit and advice in energy and environmental benefits associated with the Cloud Computing

→ Software applications development in "Cloud" architectures

→ SaaS software applications architecture