Union & The Environment

Everybody is looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Whether this is a genuine concern for the environment, a straight forward cost saving exercise, recognition of an energy crisis, or sensible preparation for impending legislation, depends upon who you speak to. Needless to say, corporate responsibility is an important brand ingredient and a metric to be both measured and published.

Balanced Approach

Union has a balanced approach. We genuinely want to achieve all of the above - we care for the
environment that our children will inherit; we unashamedly like the cost savings that a well thought out
“green” strategy can bring us and our customers – and let’s face it, the market economy we compete in
demands it; we recognise that energy consumption can not continue unabated; and commercially we can’t afford the penalty of non-compliance.

What’s The Relevance?

We specialise in an area where a significant impact can be made – the data centre, and more specifically storage! Gartner anticipates that by the end of this decade energy costs will consume 40% of IT budgets, whilst 30% to 40% of power consumption is attributed to the storage of data.
With data storage being the fastest growing footprint in the data centre this consumption figure is likely to increase, and therefore stemming its growth will be a major contributor to an organisation’s reduction in carbon emissions, and of course costs!

What Is Union Doing?

Quite a lot actually – in fact our entire business model is built upon reducing storage growth. Plus we
operate our business ethically with our own internal environmental stewardship.