Hopkinton, Massachusetts – EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) on June 28 announced the release of the EMC 2010 Sustainability Report. This year’s report highlights EMC’s focus on transforming information infrastructure to be more sustainable, cultivating an engaged workforce to create ground-breaking solutions, and working collaboratively to create shared value from the creation of products and solutions that contribute to a more sustainable world. EMC’s Sustainability Report uses the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 framework.
“The sustainability challenges we face today – whether economic, societal, or environmental – require the development and application of near- and long-term innovations,” said Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO. “EMC’s journey has continued to produce innovative approaches to sustainability for our company and customers. That said, we have only laid the foundation for sustainability within our operations, and remain fully committed to building upon it. We continue to see IT as an enabler for collaboration and a source of solutions for the global vision of sustainability.”
The EMC Sustainability Report explores the company’s strategies, achievements and overall progress with regard to its Sustainability Priorities, which include:
- Healthy Ecosystems: Focusing on energy and climate change, material use and waste, and water conservation; optimizing operations and value chain, transforming information infrastructure to be more sustainable, and collaborating for an environmentally sustainable world.
- Engaged People: Cultivating a culture of inclusiveness, innovation, and education to create groundbreaking solutions.
- Shared Value: Strengthening governance, visionary and ethical leadership, engagement and collaboration with stakeholders, to stay informed and create mutually beneficial solutions together.
- Transformative IT: Providing ground-breaking products and solutions that support a more sustainable world, and enabling customers to advance transformative ways of living and working.
EMC’s 2010 Sustainability Report Highlights
In 2010, EMC continued its commitment to sustainability in a number of ways such as:
- Introducing a new generation of products with industry-leading technology for power supply efficiency
- Delivering FAST technology to allow customers to achieve more data center efficiency
- Conducting EMC’s first multi-stakeholder forum for collaborative input on company Environmental Sustainability strategy
- Partnering to launch a state-of-the-art energy efficient data center
- Beginning to account for Scope 3 emissions from Tier 1 suppliers
“Throughout this report, we share our sustainability successes and our challenges,” said Kathrin Winkler, EMC’s Vice President, Corporate Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer. “This year, we have expanded our report and have included more stories about how our products and EMC employees around the world are embedding sustainability into operations. We are proud of our progress, but the more we learn, the more work we realize is in front of us; we are largely past the easy wins and are working toward a real challenge in sustainability – truly embedding sustainability into our culture, as well as our strategy and our operations.”
EMC and its employees are active in furthering sustainability through involvement in leading industry organizations. EMC’s memberships include The Green Grid, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). In 2010, EMC collaborated with many different partners and industry groups including: The Green Grid’s ENERGY STAR program, and the Irish Government High-Level Strategic Workshops on Data Centres and Cloud Computing.
In 2010, EMC’s France headquarters earned three of the French government’s Haute Qualité Environmental (High Environmental Quality or HQE) certifications. The EMC Ireland Center of Excellence (COE) developed a plan to utilize new cooling units to maximize energy savings. In 2008, the EMC India Center of Excellence Research and Development lab began an initiative to harness automated workplace shut-down process for servers during the weekend. Scaled implementation of this initiative began in 2010 and resulted in a 10-15% reduction in power consumption. EMC also built a new energy efficient, 100% virtual data center in Durham, NC, which is on-track for meeting PUE objectives of 1.3 and obtaining LEED Corporate Interiors (CI) certification.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. For more information about EMC, visit www.EMC.com.
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