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GreenThink

GreenThink Consulting

While many in Silicon Valley and in the environmental movement have very altruistic reasons for pursuing green initiatives — “passing on a sustainable world to our children” — there are also very pragmatic reasons that this is becoming a major concern for businesses:

The cost of energy
Concerns over the future supply of energy
Exploding use of energy as data centers expand
Threat of government regulation of energy consumption
First targets for Kyoto Protocol (reducing greenhouse gases) coming in 2008-2012
Growing political support for managing and regulating CO2 emissions

We have developed deep expertise in Green technology space through our thought-leadership, industry forum participations, and innovative technology solutions. Some of the service offerings within our GreenThink practice are:

Smart-Grid Applications: We have developed solutions and components which enable utility companies to establish a real smart power grid. Our solutions help in optimizing your network usage and anticipate and prevent outages before they even occur.

Paperless Office - Document Management Solutions: USTS provides end-to-end Document/Knowledge Management solutions by combining our robust consulting methodologies and frameworks. Document Management Systems are still evolving and banks, telcos, manufacturers and Subject Matter Experts have started investing in this technology. Our solutions provide high ROI through:

Efficient management of unstructured information to improve decision making
Meeting the statutory requirements of enterprises with regard to document and content assets
Automating business processes through workflows and rules-based engines
Reducing the cost of knowledge acquisition and retention through powerful collaboration and search tools

Virtualization Solutions: We help you in realizing the benefits through your virtualization efforts, whether it is PCs or servers or Data centers. When it comes to greening data centers - that is, lowering the environmental footprint inflicted by powering and maintaining IT assets within a data center - reducing the number of IT assets you purchase and maintain will certainly make reusing and recycling less of a burden.

Consolidation Solutions: In recent years, many firms' data centers have mushroomed to accommodate a sharp rise in computing demand.
As rows of server racks started multiplying, the energy costs associated with operating them increased too. In dense urban areas, data center managers started facing limitations both in space to house their servers but also in the amount of energy their utility providers allowed them to pull from the grid. These changes pushed data center energy-savings projects way up on the priority list. And because most applications running on dedicated servers do not require all of the computing powering that each server offers, it's logical to consolidate multiple applications onto single servers.

Storage Solutions: USTS helps you in implementing an affordable and sustainable storage strategy for your business.

Carbon Management Solutions: USTS provides expert consulting solutions to comply with ISO 14064-Iand GHG Protocol.

ISO 14064-I:

Specification with Guidance at the Organization Level for Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals.

GHG Protocol:

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

It provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG standard and program in the world - from the International Standards Organization to The Climate Registry - as well as hundreds of GHG inventories prepared by individual companies.

The GHG Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in the global marketplace and their governments to make informed decisions about climate change.