IT Press Release - Carbon Neutral Hosting
28th July 2011
IT COMPANY SETS ITS SIGHTS ON CARBON REDUCTION
A West Midlands IT company is helping their customers with carbon reduction by
transferring all their hosting to a carbon neutral data centre. This will help
customers meet their carbon reduction targets.
Nigel Mills, managing director of MBM based in Wombourne, explained: “Many
companies struggle to meet carbon reduction targets that form part of their
corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment. We’re getting asked more and
more about the carbon footprint of IT systems, so when we were looking for a new
provider we included this as one of our criteria.”
MBM’s new data centre in Manchester is completely carbon neutral. In 2008 the
supplier planted 150 acres of forestry on its farm in Scotland. These trees now
carbon neutralise all CO2 emissions emitted from the data centre. In addition,
the facilities are energy efficient achieving a power usage efficiency (PUE)
rate as low as 1.32 against an average of 2.2.
Jason Timmins, technical director at MBM, said: “We host many customers' servers
in our internet data centre and, even with advances in power management, these
machines consume a lot of electricity. A medium-sized web server that's busy
running your e-commerce web site could easily consume 500W of power all day,
every day. Clearly, reducing the environmental impact of that is important. Our
customers understand that servers consume plenty of electricity and, under
pressure from demanding carbon reduction targets, they asked us to examine the
power that is consumed on their behalf.”
He added: “We believe we have sourced an affordable hosting solution for
businesses that neutralises its carbon footprint and provides all the
technology, security and industry leading service level agreements that is fit
for today’s business environment.”
-ENDS-
Contact:
Nigel Mills or
Jason Timmins
http://www.mbmltd.co.uk
01902 324494
