Green IT

Reducing costs while improving your carbon footprint

The demand for “green IT” is affecting organizations around the world, regardless of industry. Organizations seek ways to reduce the cost and energy consumption of their IT environments. Reducing their carbon footprint is also an important priority, as well as exploring more environmentally-friendly IT delivery models such as cloud computing.

CGI offers green IT services that benefit your organization and the consumers and citizens you serve, as well as the broader economy. We offer a wide range of services and solutions, including the following:

• Green IT health check and strategy: We assess your green IT performance against best practices in the areas of application and data center rationalization, information management, virtualization, network and desktop management, energy management and remote working.
• Green IT transformation: We provide technical and project management office (PMO) services to manage and implement green IT opportunities for your organization that include establishing a business case, piloting programs and rolling out programs across the enterprise.
• Green IT sourcing strategy: We help your organization integrate sustainability requirements into major outsourcing areas, ranging from desktop support to applications management and hosting.

Our experience and expertise

CGI leads by example. We integrate sustainability across all of our services and operations, making carbon reduction and resource efficiency key priorities in all that we do. We aim to “green” everything from hardware implementations and upgrades to server virtualization and cloud computing models.

Our experience includes the following:

• Developed a green IT strategy to identify opportunities for server virtualization, data center energy efficiency, renewable energy and improved governance and reporting across a client’s entire IT landscape
• Delivered a 50% reduction in IT energy consumption for a municipal client
• Reduced an automotive client’s annual emissions by 25,000 tCO2 and helped it achieve more than $5 million in annual savings as part of an enterprise-wide green IT transformation program

Our clients also have realized significant cost and carbon emission reductions through green data center initiatives, proven to work in our own data centers, which adhere to the highest standards of quality and security. Likewise, we help clients drive innovation, flexibility, performance, security and savings through our cloud services.