Bangalore – June 5th, 2008 – Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced its membership in The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Wipro’s green IT initiatives extend from energy efficient data centers to eco-friendly product engineering designs and PC ranges.
These data centers provide Wipro’s customers end-to-end services for better utilization of their capacity, thereby helping enterprises to minimize their use of power, cooling and housing equipment, which cause greenhouse gases. The data centers apply practices such as server virtualization to minimize the amount of equipment required for operations.
Wipro will broaden its green IT initiatives through its participation in The Green Grid, as the consortium seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data center and business computing energy efficiencies.
“Our membership to The Green Grid highlights the work we have done to achieve energy efficiency in our data centers, which translates to helping our customers go green and achieve business benefits,” said Jessie Paul, Chief Marketing Officer, Wipro Technologies. Being a part of The Green Grid, Wipro will contribute as an active participant, creating and offering energy-efficient, virtual data center technology
Wipro also previously acquired Infocrossing, a U.S. based data center computing firm that has helped it to further the cause of ecological sustainability. Additionally, Wipro went Carbon Neutral at Mandala, its annual customer forum event, and plans on extending this initiative to more customer events in the future. Wipro’s other recent accomplishments include receiving U.S. Green Building Council Certification for two of the company’s existing facilities.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development, and maintenance services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.
Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro’s ADS’ are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange – Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at www.wipro.com and www.wiprocorporate.com.
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