The pursuit of sustainability in the IT operations of our rapidly expanding Group led Apeejay Surrendra Managements Services , our shared services company, to undertake Project Shakti, a few years ago. The Group´s Central Data Centre that hosts as many as 40 individual servers has changed the way it operates, thanks to Project Shakti. Twenty-two servers have been migrated to a single hardware platform using two VM servers and since then, the requirements of five new servers have been nixed to host all in the same VM environment. With an assumption of an average of 4 tons of CO2 emitted annually per server, roughly a savings of around 100 tons of CO2 annually has been achieved. Additionally, cooling cost for the Group Data Centre has been cut down by one fifth along with allied power and space savings. In short, this project helped enhance the utilization of existing servers from 15% to 80%.

Apeejay Surrendra Management Services received the Edge Award 2010 instituted by Information Week, an IT magazine from Business Week, for this initiative.

Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT today and Project Shakti was a real example of delivering "more with less." Whether the goal is to reduce cost, reduce the impact on the environment, or achieve energy efficiency at our Data Centre - we are focused on Green IT – a journey and a philosophy that will be relentlessly pursued in the years to come.