Compugen has always had a life-cycle view of its customers’ IT infrastructure and have used that perspective to drive sustainable IT, says Andrew Stewart, vice-president, corporate services and marketing.
Stewart says his company starts to work with their customers on green efforts from product procurement and continues through end of life.
On the procurement end, Compugen has been active in seeking out companies and products in the green space, like Seattle-based PC power management vendor Verdiem. Compugen was recently instrumental in introducing Verdiem to the Canadian market and in helping the company connect with various Canadian power suppliers.
Alongside the infrastructure virtualization solutions Compugen brings to its customers, products like Verdiem’s Surveyor Sustainability Dashboard help to reduce the impact an organization’s IT has on the environment.
Compugen has also made a considerable investment in bringing its customers more environmentally-sound handling of end of life hardware, says Stewart. It developed for its customers a managed reuse centre, which handles the decommissioning of IT hardware assets to ensure corporate security is maintained and that those assets can be properly re-used within an organization, re-sold or recycled.But it doesn’t stop there.
“Outside of the meat and potatoes of this life-cycle [approach], we have signed on as a member of Climate Savers, we are looking to both adapt and contribute to the evolution of (environmental) standards,” says Stewart.
As well, Compugen has taken a leadership role in promoting green issues related to business efficiencies through its newsletter and through it membership in the Innovation Value Institute, an IT industry think tank focused on driving business efficiencies.
Compugen is also a member of EPEAT and Think Green.