ULTRA is Green

GXS is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and helping our customers achieve their eco-friendly goals. GXS Trading Grid® Ultra was designed with specific requirements to reduce the environmental impact of secure data centre operations. Our "Green-by-Default, Design and Operations" initiative represents an unmatched commitment within the On-Demand industry to helping achieve a sustainable environment. The initiative includes the following components:

• Green-by-Default. Technology partners for Ultra infrastructure are selected based on the contribution their technology has to green initiatives and their emphasis on reducing their carbon footprint. Fact: Ultra's blade architecture design with software virtualisation will reduce the number of servers and CPUs by over 50%
• Green-by-Design. Ultra is designed for peak loads, high-availability and disaster recover greatly reducing unnecessary idle operations. Fact: Ultra design will be ~25% more energy efficient than other distributed architectures that typically are only 20% utilised
• Green-by-Operations. Ultra greatly reduces the physical complexity in our data centre and power requirements. Fact: Ultra will operate with 86% fewer power connections creating a vast reduction in both power consumption, and actual materials (cable and fiber) required.

With Ultra, GXS is eliminating energy-intensive traditional mainframe operations globally. Our "raised-floor" data centre space requirements will be reduced by over 90% by the end of 2009 while supporting load and capacity anticipated to increase over 300% during the period.