BY ALLISTON ACKERMAN
AND ALARICE PADILLA
HINTS OF GREEN
Green IT
<< Using fewer physical servers,
SABMiller RUS drove a 43 percent
savings in energy costs for power
and cooling, among other benefits.
H2O Savings
SABMiller PLC launched
a new water strategy with a
target to reduce average water use per
hectoliter of beer by 25 percent by 2015.
Virtual Value
AN INNOVATIVE IT PROJECT CUTS COSTS
WHILE SAVING POWER FOR SABMILLER
SABMiller plc ( www.sabmiller.com), one of the world’s
largest brewers and beverage companies with interests
in more than 60 countries across six continents, is committed to being a responsible company. Because data
centers are one of the world’s fastest-growing energy
consumers, SABMiller RUS, the division of SABMiller
that distributes 10 brands in the Russian beer market,
sought an innovative green solution for its IT environment
that could save energy as well as money.
Data Center Drawbacks
The IT department at SABMiller RUS provides a variety
of information services to its internal business users,
Energy & Carbon Goals
In June 2009, SABMiller PLC
announced that by 2020 it will reduce
fossil fuel emissions from its beers by
50 percent per liter of beer produced.
