Green Solutions
At ICO we aim to help businesses reduce their environmental footprints through moving servers into a hosted environment. You will have read that this is not the only advantage of hosting, however, with heightened awareness of climate change and rising power costs, hosting certainly enables individual businesses to become more ‘green’.
Virtualization technology takes hosting one step further in the green debate by using significantly less power and by definition, physical space, to store and run the same amount of data.
Of course data centres have a large environmental impact themselves, and we do not intend to mislead our customers by pretending otherwise. However virtualization technology goes a long way to addressing this issue.
In addition one of our data centres has undergone extensive work to upgrade the infrastructure and has advanced sensor lighting, cooling and power technologies to maximize efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
