“With our power-saving options and new platforms for enterprise purposes, we’re setting milestones for the continual enchancment of our power effectivity each in our IT operations and in these we facilitate for others by our knowledge facilities and options. We have to be profitable in reaching sustainable operations and combatting local weather change as a result of, as everyone knows, there isn’t any ‘Plan B’ or a failover possibility for us on this stunning planet Earth.”
— Vladimir Mlynar, chief working officer of Axians ICT Austria
Axians is a model of VINCI Energies, and Axians ICT Austria GmbH focuses on delivering the connections, efficiency, power effectivity, and knowledge that enterprises have to fast-track the rollout of latest applied sciences wanted to handle two pivotal imperatives: digital transformation and the transition to new, extra environment friendly, and renewable types of power.
Axians ICT Austria’s knowledge facilities present providers based on the newest requirements, together with a full portfolio of multi- and hybrid-cloud providers that incorporate a proactive cybersecurity mannequin. Axians can also be the one supplier in Austria to supply a one-stop retailer for SAP-related options. As well as, the corporate affords extremely specialised software program for archiving, collaboration, and logistics, in addition to bespoke analytics and synthetic intelligence choices.
We not too long ago linked with Vladimir Mlynar, chief working officer of Axians ICT Austria, to be taught extra concerning the firm’s dedication to sustainability and the discount of emissions and a few of the tasks the place he sees new makes use of of know-how furthering international efforts to fight local weather change.
“Axians is a part of the VINCI group, and the group is taking aggressive motion to restrict the implications of local weather change by setting formidable targets,” says Mlynar. “We profit from that dedication and share those self same targets, particularly to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions by 40%, in comparison with 2018, by 2030. We’re additionally dedicated to alignment with the 2050 carbon neutrality dedication made by France as a part of the Paris Local weather Settlement. What makes our expertise considerably totally different from many IT and know-how corporations is that VINCI is nicely often known as a development and power firm, so we see the impression of those commitments in a really speedy and tangible method.”
Mlynar additionally believes there’s a pure synergy between development, the power trade, and ICT relating to making sustainability beneficial properties.
“It’s nicely know that cloud computing is, in itself a major asset within the transfer to a extra sustainable strategy and decrease carbon footprint, and knowledge facilities are the first shopper of power within the IT sector – utilizing greater than 55% of the facility assigned to it and 1% of worldwide electrical energy demand,” he says. “That’s why we felt it was crucially vital for us to energy our knowledge facilities with energy generated from 100% renewable and CO2 impartial sources. However reaching that was however one piece of our plan. We see power transition and digital transformation as intertwined.”
Mlynar factors to a number of tasks not too long ago accomplished for purchasers. The primary, a sensible cities challenge, drew on Axians’s work with the Linked Worlds firm in Holland.
By means of the challenge, Axians deployed a lot of sensors that measure air high quality amongst different environmental components. With the know-how, visitors lights within the metropolis may be routinely timed to enhance air high quality. A method that is achieved is by timing sign mild modifications in order that vehicles touring by the town should cease much less typically.
The second, a sensible irrigation challenge Axians undertook for the town of Florence, Italy, is a part of the Horizon European initiative, the European Union’s program to fund analysis targeted on sustainability and efforts to fight local weather change. The methods Axians created monitor moisture ranges and have already enabled the town to lower water consumption for irrigation by 30%.
Notably, the Axians cloud service addHelix, an online platform for purchasers in Austria powered by the VMware stack, allows logistics corporations to optimize hundreds, routes, and the operation of fleets. Because of this, they get monetary savings and decrease emissions on the identical time.
“Larger effectivity, decrease prices, and decrease emissions usually are not mutually unique and sometimes go hand in hand,” says Mlynar. “That’s one of many causes that it’s becoming that VMware – a know-how companion that first delivered all three with virtualization – would spearhead an vital name to motion just like the VMware Zero Carbon Dedicated program. . . . We have to be profitable in reaching sustainable operations and combatting local weather change as a result of, as everyone knows, there isn’t any ‘Plan B’ or a failover possibility for us on this stunning planet Earth.”
Study extra about Axians and its partnership with VMware right here.
