Symantec
Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.
Symantec is committed to minimizing its environmental footprint by conserving the natural resources internally and helping its customers deploy software to drive energy efficiencies across their IT environment. Symantec’s environmental strategy features four key components:
Green IT (including the Green Data Center): Symantec has established practices to minimize energy use and optimize performance in our clients’ and our own data centers and beyond. Symantec’s solutions facilitate server virtualization and storage consolidation, among others, to help reduce hardware and energy needs.
Resource conservation: Symantec aims to conserve energy and materials and minimize waste at each of its locations.
Responsible software packaging: Symantec integrates the concept of reduce/reuse/recycle into packaging design and manufacture, and deliver the majority of software products electronically in order to conserve materials and energy.
Transportation: Symantec works to reduce employee commuting and business travel to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Symantec has developed practices and software tools that apply techniques such as clustering storage tiering, and data deduplication.
By consolidating and even closing data centers, Symantec has conserved energy, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and saved on IT and real estate expenditures. Some examples include:
In October 2007 Symantec closed a co-located data center in the U.K. and eliminated 10 servers without needing to re-deploy to another data center.
In August 2007 Symantec closed its second-largest data center, located in Sunnyvale, California, reducing that data center’s device count from 1,635 to 352 devices.
Two hundred devices were re-deployed to the primary U.S. data center in Arizona; 152 re-deployed to other data center sites, and 15 storage arrays comprising 141 terabytes of physical storage were decommissioned.
Closed a 10,000 square foot facility which also involved the permanent retiring of superfluous systems and devices, translating into a 67 percent reduction in individual device energy consumption and related reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Symantec software and services help customers reduce energy consumption and improve utilization of their IT assets. Such green IT environments not only have a positive environmental impact; they also generate significant cost savings and performance benefits. Symantec’s offerings include:
Veritas Application Director allows physical and virtual server consolidation to reduce power consumption and slow the growth of new hardware installation.
Veritas™ Storage Foundation provides storage tiering to move non-critical data to less energy-demanding storage sites.
Veritas™ Command Central Storage finds regions of wasted space and inactive data across an enterprise and enables administrators to utilize memory assets more efficiently. CommandCentral Storage can also measure performance so that IT can assure SLAs are maintained.
Veritas™ NetBackup reduces the space needed for storage by eliminating duplicate data in memory and utilize NetBackup Pure Disk to transmit small amount of data over constrained transmission wires.
Symantec Enterprise Vault eradicates duplicate email messages and dramatically shrinks storage – and power – requirements.
Altiris Energy Saver Toolkit enables administrators to aggressively manage desktop and workstation energy consumption.
Symantec’s consulting services help customers design their data centers for optimal equipment configuration, capacity, and power usage.
