Green Business is Good Business
Being environmentally responsible makes good business sense. Not only is it a critical element of your corporate social responsibility efforts, but customers are also beginning to demand that businesses take a leadership role to improve the environment. At Verizon Business, we are doing our part to conserve energy, reduce waste, and recycle, and we’ve helped many of our customers “go green” in ways that also help control costs and improve their financial performance.
For example, when EDS Australia began its “Greening of EDS” initiative, it was looking for ways to reduce its carbon footprint. With employee travel contributing 13 percent of its total carbon emissions in Australia and New Zealand, EDS turned to Verizon Business for a video conferencing solution to reduce travel and help meet its 25 percent carbon reduction targets by 2010.
Become Environmentally Sustainable
Our global IP network provides the perfect foundation for the advanced tools and applications that can be leveraged to create environmentally friendly business practices. We help you:
- Reduce business travel and daily commuting. With conferencing and collaboration solutions, you can hold virtual meetings that reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions and the high costs associated with business travel. Our Voice over IP (VoIP) and mobility solutions enable your employees to work remotely with all the tools of the office, eliminating the wasted time, aggravation, and emissions of the daily commute. (Check out the new Conferencing Calculator.)
- Control real estate needs to avoid energy use. With more of your employees telecommuting, you can explore “hoteling” and shared-office solutions. Our advanced hosting solutions can virtualize your company’s computer platforms, helping to reduce the space necessary for servers, PCs, and storage equipment. And leverage our management expertise in everything from networks to security to customer premises equipment (CPE) and reduce the internal staff and associated office space necessary for these functions.
- Improve data center efficiency. Energy consumption in data centers is expected to almost double in the next five years.* With virtualization, we can help you break the one server-one application paradigm and allow fewer servers to do more work. We are also driving energy reduction processes in our data centers including utilizing energy-efficient equipment, improving cooling efficiencies, turning on/off servers with only periodic usage, and conducting rigorous performance maintenance. With our consulting and remote management services, we can bring some of these same benefits to data centers you already own and manage.
- Lessen consumption of paper materials. Our electronic billing and supply-chain managed services give companies greater flexibility and granularity, while cutting down on paper use, preserving resources, and reducing landfill waste.
Gain a Competitive Edge with Verizon Business
Transform your business and gain a competitive edge. Partner with Verizon Business to help you realize the benefits of launching green initiatives in your company.
* EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, August 2007