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eLINIA, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed service providers, is to offer a
carbon-neutral hosting service thanks to an agreement with Equinix’s
environmentally friendly data centre in Slough.
Power for the data
centre is supplied by Slough Heat and Power Energy Centre, a converted coal-fire
power station, which generates hot water and electricity for local businesses by
burning wood chips and fibre cubes made from used paper and cardboard.
eLINIA is one of the first four companies to take space at the new data
centre to accommodate its growing managed services customer base, which includes
clients such as The National Assembly for Wales and Global Aerospace.
“Failure to curb emissions will soon be as damaging to a company’s
reputation as losing their personal information is today,” said James Carnie,
technical architect of eLINIA.
“Managed hosting is all about giving
customers peace of mind, and we see our environmental policy as an extension of
that. That’s why it was so important to opt for a service that is technically
sound and sustainable for our customers in the long-term.”
eLINIA is
offering carbon-neutral hosting for existing customers at its Cardiff data
centre through a carbon offsetting initiative implemented through CO2 Balance.
The company has also switched to E:ON’s ‘EasyGreen’ tariff to ensure its
internal energy supply is 100% renewable.
With recent research
suggesting 94% of businesses plan to add carbon friendly clauses in contract
negotiations with suppliers, eLINIA’s carbon-neutral service comes at a time
when companies are beginning to look seriously at their emissions policies,
particularly at a supplier level.
Sharon Pfleger-Taylor, Operations
Manager at CCI Solutions, an eLINIA customer hosted at the Equinix data centre,
said: “Environmentally friendly suppliers are becoming incredibly valuable as
they can take away a lot of the hassle when reducing a company’s overall carbon
emissions. eLINIA’s carbon-neutral hosting service means we can reduce the
carbon footprint of our business in a cost-effective way, without disrupting our
existing processes.”
James Carnie commented: “We doubled in size last
year alone and anticipate similar levels of growth this year. We plan to
increase our presence in the Equinix datacentre to meet this growth and will
increase our capacity to help our customers reduce their carbon emissions.”
About eLINIAHeadquartered in Cardiff and building on over 10
years experience delivering highly secure managed services for BTPLC, eLINIA was
founded in 2005 and is one of the UK’s fastest growing ICT solutions providers,
offering a range of services including:
- Design, delivery and support of hosting and managed services.
- Application Infrastructure Services.
- Application Development Services.
- Partial to Full Outsourcing.
- Business Continuity Services.
- Server operating systems and application management
- Database management.
- Firewall and network management.
- 24x7 service monitoring and reporting.
eLINIA provide world
class highly secure ICT services for businesses through the provision of bespoke
affordable solutions, whilst offering the highest standards of customer care and
integrity.
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