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A report by The Climate Group on behalf of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), with independent analysis by McKinsey & Company

The Climate Group

Capitol Goes Green

Key Facts

  • The Municipality of Copenhagen replaced 638 machines with just 32 Dell PowerEdge servers, running Vmware virtualization software and underpinned by an EMC storage solution. They expect to cut IT power costs and carbon emissions by approximately 77 per cent with a scalable virtualization solution.

  • Hardware:

    • Dell PowerEdge R900 server with Intel Xeon processor
    • EMC Symmetrix DMX4 network storage system
    • EMC Centera Governance Edition archive
    • Quantum Scalar i2000 tape library
    • BrocadeDirector4800switches

    Software:

    • VMware ESX server software
    • EMCNavisphere
    • EMC Legato
    • Networker
    • EMCLegatoDiskXtender
    • EMCLegatoEmailXtender
    • Dell OpenManageTM Systems Management

    Services:

    • DellGlobalInfrastructureConsulting Services (GICS) – Assessment, design and implementation
    • DellProSupportforIT1 – MissionCritical – ServiceDeliveryManager(SDM)
    • Training
  • The project took 11 months to implement
  • For the overall solution, the likely ROI is 11,830,000 Danish kroner after 36 months. The break- even point will be around 18 months.
  • The actual (or likely) cost of the project is 26 million Danish kroner
  • The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
    8.5 million Danish kroner (previous infrastructure would have cost approximately DKK 11 million in power over the next five years, whereas the Dell solution will cost approximately DKK 2.5 million). Administrative saving will be approximately 15 million over the next five years. "Over the next five years, including the savings on power and administration costs, we estimate that the TCO of the Dell solution will be 40 per cent less than that of our previous infrastructure."
  • The primary sponsor for the project was the Copenhagen Municipality Shared Service Center Board of Directors, Headed by Managing Director Jan Gundersen. The day to day management of the project was the responsibility of a steering committee appointed by the municipality and Dell.

What was the impact?

  • 190 t CO2e has been saved on this project , over a period of 12 months

  • Notes about Carbon savings/calculations

    77 per cent reduction in the municipality's IT carbon footprint.
  • The project has independent verification for results

Making it Happen

  • Barriers experienced during the initiation of the project

  • Other comments regarding barriers preventing the successful completion of the project


    The Municipality had for historical reason negotiated very low prices for electricity. Had they been paying normal rates savings would have been significantly highe.

Highlights

Project Type
Project
Solution Type
Green ICT
Carbon Saved
190 t CO2e

The project is a great example of a public/private partnership that is driving green savings and black numbers on the bottomline at the same time.

Who

Company Name
Dell Computer, Inc

A consumer of clean technologies

Dell has been the No. 1 PC supplier to small and medium businesses in the United States for 10 years in a row. Every Fortune 100 company does business with Dell.

  • EMC

    EMC provides the technologies and tools that can help release the power of information. The company can help its customers design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. And with these infrastructures, customers will be able to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and manage information so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and, ultimately, actionable. EMC works with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size, from startups to the Fortune Global 500.

  • Municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 (2009) and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179 (2009).

  • VMWare

    VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.

  • Quantum

    As the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive for more than 27 years, Quantum has been focused on helping IT departments address data protection and data retention challenges by incorporating innovative solution sets with world-class service and support.