Greentech Lead America: CA Technologies, a provider of IT management solutions, announced 17 percent of electricity purchased by the company globally is from renewable sources, the company said after releasing its annual Sustainability Report titled “Future Ready.”
The company is advancing toward meeting its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent by 2020, officials at CA Technologies said.
The CA Technologies Sustainability Report is measured against the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicators and United Nations Global Compact principals, which received an A+ rating.
CA Technologies has established a goal of increasing its use of renewable electricity to 25 percent by 2015. Renewable electricity is consumed at company sites in Darmstadt, Germany; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Hyderabad, India and Framingham, Massachusetts.
The company consolidated servers in its data centers, which allows it to combine several underutilized physical servers into one – to reduce energy consumption and associated expense, as well as software and hardware maintenance costs.
CA Technologies joined Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP), the policy arm of Ceres, to increase cross-industry collaboration in the area of energy management, and became a signatory of the Climate Declaration.
Approximately 330,000 square feet of the company’s office space — about 10 percent of the company’s total office space — is LEED-registered or under a green lease. CA Technologies has reduced its carbon footprint by acting on opportunities for lighting reduction, smart-spacing facilities, and continued efficiencies in its data centers and labs.
The company also minimized landfill waste through composting is underway at three of the company’s major facilities. The CA World 2013, the global gathering of CA Technologies customers and partners, was a 100 percent carbon-neutral event.
The company’s CA Energy and Sustainability Management solutions help customers measure and report on energy, water, waste and carbon. They include CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and CA ecoSoftware that leverage capabilities in its systems management and project and portfolio management solutions to help customers improve sustainability performance.
CA ecoSoftware meets the company’s own need to track, monitor and report on GHG emissions and to facilitate reporting processes. The company also leverages CA DCIM to measure and manage — in real time — power and cooling and overall physical capacity in its data centers and facilities around the globe.