Airline catering and in-flight services provider LSG Sky Chefs has selected 1E’s NightWatchman Enterprise platform to improve its PC power management capabilities.
As well as the environmental savings, LSG is also expected to save financially – to the tune of €70,000 per year.
The company launched a pilot project and was looking for a system that would enable it to power down PCs when not in use, but leave on mission-critical computers that need to run all the time, said Dirk Kröning, vice president, Global IT Infrastructure, LSG Sky Chefs.
"We began by internally testing NightWatchman Enterprise on a small subset of our PCs," he said. "In our environment, the majority are back-office PCs which can be power managed, but some 800 or so are core business machines which do need to be kept on 24/7."
"Despite having to exclude the PCs which need to be available all of the time from the new power saving policies, we still found the potential for significant energy savings, so we decided to license the solution across our global PCs," he added.
Based on the outcome of the trial, powering down non-critical PCs during out of office hours is expected to save the company €70,000 per year, as well as almost 400,000 kWh of electricity. This is equivalent to 35 homes in one year or roughly 300 metric tons of CO2, which is the same as emitted by 59 cars in one year.
"We are delighted to see LSG Sky Chefs take the first step towards greater IT Efficiency. One of the fastest and most effective ways in which organisations can become energy efficient is to look at their IT infrastructure. To date, 1E has helped more than 1,600 customers make €1.1bn in efficiency savings. This includes €620m in energy costs alone and a reduction in CO2 emissions of 5.8 million tonnes," said Sumir Karayi, CEO, 1E.
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LSG Sky Chefs is based in Neu-Isenburg, Germany and runs 200 customer service centres in 52 countries. In 2011, the company produced about 492 million meals for more than 300 airlines worldwide, it says.
