"Our technical analyst Joe Arauzo reports that in 2006 we handled requests for 220 individual servers, by adding just 22 physical servers. Existing physical servers are being consolidated using physical-to-virtual conversion. Our server-consolidation project helps us save an additional 830 megawatts a year, enough to power 78 U.S. homes for one year," Anthony Hoke, Global Technology Purchasing/Asset Manager at Morrison & Foerster, wrote in an article for Law Technology News.
The firm also recycles its old equipment through Redemtech Inc., a company that takes office equipment that companies do not want anymore and distributes it to nonprofit organizations, re-sales it, or recycles it for use as something else. The firm even worked with Redemtech Inc. after the Katrina catastrophe to donate office equipment to businesses located in the New Orleans area.
Last but not least, the firm has started re-manufacturing its toner cartridges, a service provided by Advantage Enterprises, a company headquartered in Burlingame, CA.
Edward Jorczyk, the firm's Director of Global Technology, said the changes the firm has implemented are just the start of its plans to go green and that it has big plans for the future.
"Next we'll look at standardizing and enforcing power conservation settings for printers, desktops and notebooks," he said. "We can make a difference in our personal and professional lives and be the generation that stopped global warming."
