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Green Information Technology (IT) is typically defined as the efficient design and use of computing resources. It includes using environmentally friendly hardware and software, and deploying options such as virtualization, power management and recycling practices. Sprint is committed to being a green IT leader, and Sprint’s efforts were recognized in September 2008 at Computerworld’s Green IT Symposium where Sprint was named a top-five finalist for increasing “green IT” by reducing IT complexity. This recognition was based on Sprint’s efforts to simplify its complex IT environment by identifying, consolidating and removing redundant or unused applications and their supporting infrastructures, and by simplifying the hardware and software footprint in Sprint’s data centers.
Over a 20-month period, Sprint has significantly reduced its IT-based power consumption by retiring more than 3,850 servers. Not only did this improve energy efficiency, it reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20,355 metric tons, which is the equivalent of removing more than 3,200 cars from the road.
Sprint has also transitioned to more energy-efficient servers and storage, has consolidated several of its data centers, significantly reduced the applications that are in use, and implemented a much simpler hardware and software IT plan that incorporates virtualization and other green IT options.
Sprint has also transitioned to more energy-efficient servers and storage, has consolidated several of its data centers, significantly reduced the applications that are in use, and implemented a much simpler hardware and software IT plan that incorporates virtualization and other green IT options.
Click here to read Forrester Research’s Case Study on Sprint’s Green IT efforts.
Click here to view an interview with Sprint’s VP of IT Operations, Josh Morton about Sprint’s Green IT best practices.