Telstra taps Ideas International to cut carbon

Stuart Corner
Monday, 10 May 2010 11:59

IT Industry - Strategy

Telstra has renewed its contract with Ideas International (ASX: IDE) for use of its Server CAR, carbon calculator and competitive profiles applications suite to assist in making informed and well-planned IT investment decisions.

"We are looking to further help Telstra with deploying the Carbon Calculator which will allow Telstra's IT decision makers to calculate the carbon savings resulting from any transition to a lower power machine from legacy ones," said Ideas International CEO, Stephen Bowhill.

Telstra's use of Ideas' tools to help reduce its carbon footprint follows its use of Ericsson's total cost of ownership tools to help minimise the carbon footprint of its mobile network.

According to Ideas, the Telstra IT group uses Ideas tools to help improve efficiency in its server fleet. "In particular the Server CAR is used by Telstra to model various server consolidation scenarios across different vendors or between different architectures (RISC or X86) before a hardware investment is undertaken.

"Server CAR's performance data adds granularity to the capacity planning and testing function and enables Telstra to make decisions based on independent metrics and tool-sets," Ideas claims.

Telstra's manager, technology planning, Carlo Bonato, said: "Ideas tools also aid us…[to] ensure that IT capacity meets current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner.

Telstra has been a client of Ideas for over five years and also uses the suite of Competitive Profiles services for cross-vendor comparisons of feature, function and price for enterprise systems, storage and warranty services. Telstra has recently upgraded the suite of services from Ideas to include the new Smart Import tool.