Our Global IT operations have an environmental impact because of its energy consumption of computers, data centres and servers.
The adidas Group has set ambitious 2015 targets to reduce the environmental footprint of the IT infrastructure by 20% through the following initiatives:
- 80% of all PCs to have ‘green’ power management options
- 30% less energy consumption of PCs
- 100% of requests for proposals to evaluate ‘green’ performance of possible vendors
- Virtualisation of servers/data centre consolidation.
Specific actions to achieve these targets are primarily the replacement/decommissioning of old power-hungry hardware, driving server virtualisation, i.e. to improve the virtual to physical server ratio and to introduce efficient hardware models.