The project also plans to optimize underused systems, eliminate redundant equipment, reduce building space requirement and induct energy-efficient IT services into Shell’s global IT network enabling consolidation and virtualization of servers and storage, data centers, and branch offices.
The project will require AT&T to manage Shell’s IT infrastructure and telecommunications services and enable monitoring and energy control at a device level and Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group to conduct IT infrastructure energy-consumption audit and make recommendations.
The project will capture power-consumption data in buildings across the business, using energy management network tools such as Cisco EnergyWise, enabling effective monitoring and energy management leading to identification of carbon-reduction opportunities.
AT&T plans to implement its Telepresence Solutions system based on Cisco’s TelePresence suites which would facilitate lowering of companywide greenhouse gas emissions through reduction of business-related travel.
Shell group chief information officer Alan Matula said that this analysis of the IT infrastructure power consumption represents a further step forward in an ongoing effort to improve energy efficiency in all aspects of Shell’s operations to improve performance, cut costs, and reduce CO2 emissions.
