IBM Global Technology Services receives 2008 Chairman's Environmental Award

22 Apr 2009 -- IBM Chairman Samuel J. Palmisano announced today that the company's Global Technology Services (GTS) organization is the recipient of the 2008 Chairman's Environmental Award. IBM established this recognition program in 1991 to encourage leadership and recognize achievement and progress in environmental affairs on the part of IBM's organizations. Similar to the past two years, the Award program for 2008 focused on energy conservation and energy efficiency across IBM's operations, products and services.

(Left to right) IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano presents the 2008 IBM Chairman's Environmental Award trophy to Mike Daniels, Senior Vice President, Global Technology Services.

With most data centers built before the dot.com era and now technically obsolete, GTS has quickly moved to fill a new customer need to evaluate and extend existing IT, while deploying more efficient future IT -- with better controls, at lower cost and with less environmental impact. Through hands-on experience in numerous client engagements, GTS has developed a deep understanding of how to design energy and environmental infrastructures unique to IBM's clients' specific needs. The organization has driven significant results with its keen focus on energy efficient operations and newly expanded portfolio of services to benefit its clients with energy conservation and sustainability needs. The following are examples of some of the GTS service offerings and the benefits they can provide to clients:

• IBM Data Center Family^TM of modular data centers for mid-size and large enterprise clients are 30-50% more energy efficient than existing data centers.
• Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessments can deliver 15-40% in annual energy savings for existing data centers.
• Server and Storage Optimization and Integration Services can provide up to a 70% reduction in overall operational costs, including energy savings.
• Virtual Infrastructure Access Services help limit the use of less energy efficient PCs to new thin client devices, offering a total cost of ownership savings of about 40%.
• Managed Business Process Services -- in collaboration with other IBM teams -- has developed an innovative traffic congestion charging system to reduce traffic in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, by 18%, improving both the environment and access to the city.

GTS owns or manages the largest portfolio of data centers in the world. The organization's leadership in improving IBM's IT alone has created numerous efficient IBM data centers that have saved money, reduced energy consumption and increased utilization. Some examples:

• IBM's internal Enterprise Computing Model (ECM) project is underway to virtualize 25% of its server infrastructure in order to use 80% less energy and 85% less floor space.
• IBM Strategic Outsourcing brought the company's "greenest" data center in North America on-line in Boulder, Colorado. The organization also initiated a Leadership Data Center (LDC) program last year and began design of the first modular, 60,000 square foot (expandable to 100,000 square feet) LDC facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, with an energy efficiency or DCiE (Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency) of 71%, significantly above the industry average of 43%, which will showcase energy efficient design best practices.
• Business Continuity and Resiliency Services announced an investment of $300 million to construct 13 additional business resilience service delivery centers in 10 countries, increasing its ability to address surging demand from businesses and governments seeking to keep their operations safe from disruption.

Issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability impact every individual and every business worldwide. GTS is addressing these with a business process strategy enabled and executed through the application of technology. With 47% of clients planning to use professional services to implement cost savings from "green", GTS is positioned to continue its market leadership.

Chairman's Environmental Award recipients are selected based on their degree of leadership, results, innovation and integration with regard to their programs and initiatives in the areas of energy conservation and energy efficiency. Performance against these criteria was evaluated against each nominee's opportunity to contribute given its mission and operations. The company is proud of the outstanding contributions all the nominees have made toward IBM's energy conservation and energy efficiency objectives.