CA unveils energy and sustainability software package
ecoSoftware designed to help companies manage carbon emissions, reduce the consumption of natural resources, and cut energy costs.
David Greenfield -- Control Engineering, 11/4/2009
CA Inc. has released its CA ecoSoftware products that it claims can help enterprises manage the implementation, progress, and outcomes of global sustainability initiatives more effectively, to measure and report reliably on energy and natural resource consumption, to account for carbon emissions, and to reduce energy costs across the datacenter and facilities.
The two new CA ecoSoftware products include:
- CA ecoGovernance 1.5, a carbon and sustainability management solution available on demand via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This software packaged has been accredited by the Carbon Disclosure Project; and
- CA ecoMeter 1.5, an on-premise operational energy management solution, also delivered via SaaS.
CA ecoGovernance includes a centralized repository and management dashboard that provides sustainability officers, energy and carbon managers, and other employees with visual tools for gaining improved control over enterprise-wide sustainability initiatives. It offers a common source of data based on a shared set of terms and categories, helping to facilitate collaboration, and is said to be capable of serving as a fully-auditable system of record. CA ecoGovernance also features advanced sustainability program and project management capabilities, the ability to evaluate progress against business objectives, and automated survey assessments for use internally and externally (with suppliers or other third parties).
CA ecoMeter is an operational energy management solution that CA claims can capture detailed energy-related information from devices within the datacenter and in other facilities across the enterprise. It is designed to allow IT, datacenter, and facilities managers to attribute energy consumption and power demand to specific devices, business units, or buildings, and helps to monitor, measure, and optimize the savings of server consolidation and virtualization efforts in the datacenter.
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