Green Computing and Packaging
Many variables today go into our responsibility as a hardware reseller to ensure our customer's are meeting their requirements and obligations to help protect our environment. As a reseller we need to look at providing solutions that are meeting Energy Star Compliance, EPEAT Standards and assisting in the recycling of packaging which all servers, desktop computers, notebooks and accessories are being shipped in by the manufacturers of these products. At Compar we will work with out customers to ensure the products we sell meet or exceed the standards that have been set as a requirement by the State of MN and that we understand the initiatives the Governor and CIO of the State of MN and their "Green Initiative". These initiative include a 50% reduction in energy consumption by the year 2010 of State owned computing equipment.
Reducing Energy Consumption for Client Computing:
- Developing Standards for Desktops, Notebooks and Displays that meet EPEAT Gold Standards
- Power Management Utilities to help reduce power consumption
- Low Voltage Processors from Intel and AMD
- Thin Client Computing
- Desktop / Client Virtualization
Data Center Strategies to reduce energy consumption:
- Consolidation of servers with hardware consolidation, server O/S virtualization with VMWARE
- Blade Servers vs. Traditional Rack Mount Servers - 40% - 50% more efficient
- Centralized Server and Data Management
Compar Custom Packaging - Compar will help develop custom packaging solutions for our customers including handling of recycling of packaging including cardboard and plastics that are shipped from manufacturers. At Compar we also have many bulk packaging options available to our customers for projects, rollouts, or just the single desktop or laptop to help in the reduction of waste for our customers and the benefit is a real cost savings for our customers. This in turn allows out customer's IT employees to focus on their tasks and the needs of their end user customers.
Benson Boxes can be used to ship notebooks, desktops and servers and can be shipped multiple times over several years to help in reducing waste as well as increasing IT efficiency for our customers. Shipping without packaging allows your IT staff to more quickly deploy hardware to the end user, reduce the need for IT staff to dispose of the waste and ultimately increase customer satisfaction.
Compar also will create custom packaging based on customer rollouts and projects to meet the demands of your IT staff. Compar will also work with our manufacturer partners and distributors on large projects to help manage and minimize the recycling and waste of the packaging that computers are shipped in today. Please contact your sales representative if you would like to understand our programs and how we can help with this growing need to help our environment.
Here are several links to green computing initiatives of manufacturers and other IT organizations: