Uptime Institute Honors 2009 Global Green 100 for Corporate Leadership in IT Energy Efficiency

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Uptime Institute today announced the corporations selected for its Global Green 100 list. The list highlights the significant energy efficiency achievements of global corporations operating major data centers. It includes exemplary FORTUNE 500 and InformationWeek 500 organizations with a demonstrated board-level policy and governance commitment to increasing energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of their enterprise IT and data center operations.

“In an era of increasing energy scarcity and escalating costs, corporations cannot afford to ignore these losses. The companies included in the Global Green 100 have showed an exemplary commitment to improving their data center operations, not only reducing their carbon footprints, but also realizing significant financial savings.”

These corporations have the largest investment enterprise IT and have taken a highly visible leadership role in mandating dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and green-house gas reduction. The official naming of the Global Green 100 will occur during the April 15 Green Enterprise IT Awards ceremony (co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy with a keynote by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and No. 1 best-selling author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded Tom Friedman) at the 4^th Annual Institute Research Symposium: LEAN, CLEAN, and GREEN in New York City, April 13-16, 2009.

The Uptime Institute — a research think-tank and advisor to owners and operators of the world’s largest enterprise data centers on the technical and business issues of computing reliability, sustainability and energy efficiency — conducts research that highlights the critical need for immediate improvements in corporate data center management and design.

“Only 1 to 2 percent of total energy consumed in a data center produces useful computing. The rest covers overheads and inefficiencies tied to technology choices, service level agreements and the way the IT is managed,” said Kenneth G. Brill, Executive Director of the Institute. “In an era of increasing energy scarcity and escalating costs, corporations cannot afford to ignore these losses. The companies included in the Global Green 100 have showed an exemplary commitment to improving their data center operations, not only reducing their carbon footprints, but also realizing significant financial savings.”

The Uptime Institute’s Global Green 100 are:

Accenture

American Express Company

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

AOL LLC

Apple Inc.

AT&T Inc.

Babson Capital

Bank of America Corporation

Bayer Corporation

BMO Financial Group

BT Group

Capital One Financial Corporation

CBS Corporation

Chevron Corporation

CIGNA Corporation

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Citigroup, Inc.

Computer Sciences Corporation

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

Credit Suisse Group

Cummins, Inc.

Dell Inc.

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

DTE Energy Company

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Kodak Company

Electronic Data Systems Corporation

Eli Lilly and Company

EMC Corporation

Emerson Electric Co.

FedEx Corporation

General Mills, Inc.

GlaxoSmithKline Holdings

Goodrich Corporation

Google Inc.

Halliburton Company

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.

Hitachi Ltd.

HSBC Holdings

Humana Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

ITT Corporation

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson Controls, Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Marriott International, Inc.

MassMutual Life Insurance Company

Medtronic, Inc.

Merck & Co., Inc.

MetLife, Inc.

MGM Mirage

Microsoft Corporation

Mitsubishi Motors

Monsanto Company

Morgan Stanley

Motorola, Inc.

NetApp, Inc.

Nokia Corporation

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Northern Trust Corporation

Office Depot, Inc.

Oracle Corporation

Pfizer Inc.

PG&E Corporation

Prudential Financial, Inc.

QUALCOMM Incorporated

Qwest Communications International Inc.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company

Raytheon Company

Regions Financial Corporation

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Schering-Plough Corporation

Sony Corporation

Southwest Airlines Co.

State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co.

State Street Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SunGard Data Systems Inc.

TD Bank Financial Group

The Allstate Corporation

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

The Black & Decker Corporation

The Boeing Company

The Chubb Corporation

The Dow Chemical Company

The Gap Inc.

The Hershey Company

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The Progressive Corporation

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

The Walt Disney Company

Time Warner Inc.

United Parcel Service, Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Waste Management, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

YRC Worldwide Inc.

More information on the Global Green 100: http://www.uptimeinstitute.org/content/view/247/178/

For more information about the Institute’s 4th Annual Symposium: http://www.GreenITNYC.com

About the Uptime Institute:

The Uptime Institute is a leading independent think-tank, corporate advisor, knowledge exchange, education and professional- services provider, serving the owners and operators of the world’s enterprise data centers. Our primary area of expertise is the uptime availability, reliability, and resiliency of enterprise computing within formal critical computing environments -- computer rooms, server farms and ranches, and data centers. The Institute operates a private knowledge network, the Site Uptime Network, that conducts research, benchmarking, knowledge sharing, and best practices for its members, who represent 100 of the largest data center owning/operating institutions in the world. Our intellectual property base includes the de facto industry standard for data-center design, known as the Tiers Classification System (Hyperlink: http://uptimeinstitute.org/content/view/25/59/) and the Four Metrics for Determining a Green Data Center (Hyperlink: http://uptimeinstitute.org/cgi-bin/admin2/admin.pl?admin=wp_form&id_field=22)