IT services firm Kyndryl has upgraded a data center for Panasonic Information Systems, saving 180 tons of CO2 annually.
The data center in question handles the core systems for Panasonic Group, a Japanese multinational electronics company.
The IT infrastructure services provider, on behalf of Panasonic, was able to reduce the data center’s air conditioning unit quantity by 10. According to Kyndryl, this has enabled Panasonic to reduce the CO2 generated by its data center by around 180 tons per year.
In order to do this, Kyndryl used thermal simulations to analyze the data center and identify areas of heat recirculation and insufficient cooling airflow. To resolve this, Kyndryl implemented ceiling openings, partitions, and cable opening closures and made adjustments to the rack design.
The data center previously had 35 air conditioning units throughout the facility, and Kyndryl was able to cut this back by around 29 percent.
“Panasonic Group considers reducing its own and society's CO2 emissions and addressing global warming as the most crucial challenge for the group. Utilizing Kyndryl's expertise in data centers to reduce CO2 emissions is a remarkable result, and it has allowed us to contribute toward a sustainable earth,” said Tomoyuki Sakai, senior managing director of Panasonic IS.
“Kyndryl has long been engaged in the design, construction, and operation of IT infrastructure leveraging data centers. The modernization of these facilities presents a pressing challenge, not just for businesses but for society at large. We are pleased to be able to support the Panasonic Group, which is taking the lead in tackling global warming,” said Keisuke Maeda, distinguished engineer, Kyndryl Japan.
Panasonic committed to becoming more sustainable in 2022 with its “Panasonic Green Impact” statement. The company has a goal of reducing emissions by 300 million tons by 2050.
Panasonic migrates data analytics system to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Also announced this month, Panasonic Information Systems has selected Oracle Exadata Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for its internal systems.
In total, Panasonic will need to migrate more than 2,000 database environments to OCI, having thus far completed the migration of 30 systems from on-premise data centers into the cloud. According to Panasonic, the company has reduced its database infrastructure costs by around 50 percent.
Included in those successfully migrated is Panasonic’s sales data analytics system, which contains 30TB of data and is used by 18,000 employees.
"While migrating our internal systems, we select the optimal environment for each system in order to maintain or improve performance. In addition to the benefits of using the advanced database functionalities of Oracle Database in the cloud, Oracle Exadata Database Service also delivered the best performance for larger systems amongst all the other cloud vendors during the initial performance testing," said Takeshi Yokosuka, director of the platform service division at Panasonic Information Systems Co., Ltd.
"This sales data analytics system was our largest system migration to OCI. Preliminary results showed that our stringent requirements, such as performance, were met satisfactorily and the project was a great success," added Sakai.
