That's right, we're going GREEN. We are proud to announce our membership in the Green Alliance.
Last week, at the direction of our own Ellen Sargent, we met with Sarah Brown, the dynamic and passionate Project Director of the Green Alliance to learn more about the organization and whether Jenaly was both a fit and candidly, a realistic business to be a member of an organization like this.
I must say, I was pleasantly surprised with Sarah's take on my concerns about Green IT. Let's face it, IT is not necessary the most inherintly green industry out there. We consume a ton of electricity, produce a lot of hazardous waste and contibute to a lot of wasteful practices, like post consumer waste and seemingly endless paper waste.
As we talked, I was impressed by the realization that the Green Alliance is about making good choices and about businesses that want to improve their environmental footprint and impact, even if they won't ever be able to meet some of the strictest standards. It's about the intent, the sincerity and the willingness to do what you can to improve your operations and educate and help others. We are doing this and will continue to do so.
We have taken several steps to move our business and that of our clients into greener territory. We leverage virtualization to do more with less hardware, which translates to lower cooling and power needs and less waste in the long run. We are moving to a paperless environment, even though our office manager is less than comfortable with the notion, but it's the right thing to do for a lot of reasons, including improving the overall integrity of how we manage and secure our records. We have transitioned to solid ink print technology from Xerox Corporation, which produces dramatically less printer waste and we are leveraging emerging technologies like Intel VPro to reduce power consumption by computers yet still insure that we can perform the regular maintenance and updates required to keep the computers running well. We have also done away with tape backup and the endless waste and unreliability of magnetic tape media. We've also replaced most of our lighting with more energy efficient bulbs.
We're undertaking a serious effort to promote Green IT, greener business practices and awareness of the Green Alliance and the excellent work they are doing. We're proud to be a new member and encourage you to check out their web site, blog and Facebook page.
I hope to post more about Jenaly's green initiatives in the future, so stay tuned.
