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Publish Date : 02-Apr-2013

Gulf Air has set up an energy efficient and advanced Data Centre at its base in Bahrain (note that the word energy efficient comes fast).

Interim CEO Maher Salman Al Musallam said: \'Gulf Air\'s \'Green IT\' initiatives follow the directives of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, personal representative of the King, who has shown keen interest in promoting green technology in Bahrain.\'

As a corporate entity, Gulf Air has been actively following a \'green policy\' in its operations. The company successfully adopted cloud computing last year and said it aims to be the pioneer in implementing \'green solutions\' that would \'help our organization, our country and the environment by saving energy, cost and increasing productivity. The modern Data Centre is a very good example of this effort\'.

Director of Information Technology, Dr Jassim Haji, said, \'The fully revamped Data Centre has been redesigned with energy-efficient blade technology and virtualisation that cuts the power requirement by 50% and uses 30% less airflow, making it one of the most environment-friendly IT centres in the country.\'

He added : \'Similarly, through virtualisation we have reduced a substantial number of our physical servers resulting in 80 per cent less energy consumption. Besides cutting down our power and cooling costs and allowing more computing power in less space, these measures also help us to reduce carbon emission in our environment; for example, every server virtualized is equivalent to removing four tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment.\'

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