On July 1, Hersh Corporation (Hersh Online) launched the Project Green Forever initiative in which Hersh will spend a projected $250,000 in 2008 to increase energy efficiency both for itself and it’s clients.
Over the past 5 years, Hersh has scaled significantly in which they now provide service to over 30 countries with over 400 technicians. However, this rapid growth has a resulted in a large “carbon footprint”. As stated by one of Hersh‘s corporate officers during a recent press conference, “Hersh needs to take an initiative and set an example for other technology companies by doing their part to create a more sustainable world for future generations.”
By using new green technologies provided by Hersh’s vendors such as IBM and Dell, Hersh is able to drastically reduce the amount of power consumed by each organization. For example, if a customer was consider switching to energy efficient servers in a 25,000 square-foot-
The end result is huge savings for the company and the environment. As stated by IDC, “for every dollar spent on computer hardware, another 50 cents is spent on energy. This can be expected to increase to 71 cents by 2011”
Project Green Forever is a new service offered provided by Hersh to help their clients ensure that they are getting maximum efficiency out of their technology and in turn, preserving the environment.
With the help of vendors such as IBM, Hersh will analyze the customer’s environment based on five components:
• Diagnosis
• Virtualization
• Provisioning
• Cooling
The process begins with a diagnosis of the customer’s existing facility including an energy assessment. Once the diagnosis phase is complete, Hersh will help re-construct or update energy efficient data centers. The virtualization process allows companies to take advantage of new technologies such as IBM’s blade servers that will companies to save as much as “50% per port compared to typical rack-mounted server.” In the provisioning phase, customers will be introduced to a series of software applications that will help manage power distribution and cooling for the data center. In many cases, poor design and layout often contribute to large energy inefficiencies.
Hersh Corporation. is excited about the launch of this program. By making smart decisions and using more efficient, environment friendly technology, tech firms can now being to play a large part in creating a “greener planet” as mentioned by Dale Hersh during a recent interview.
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Hersh Corporation
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