We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and helping our customers achieve their equally eco-friendly goals. GXS Trading Grid® Ultra was designed with specific requirements to reduce the environmental impact of secure data center 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: Trading Grid Ultra’s blade architecture design with software virtualization 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% utilized

• Green-by-Operations. Ultra reduces physical complexity greatly reducing our data center space and power requirements. Fact: Ultra will reduce data center air cooling load over 25%

With Trading Grid Ultra, GXS is eliminating energy-intensive traditional mainframe operations globally. Our ‘raised-floor’ data center 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.

We will provide more details shortly via a new Ultra microsite. However, I was so impressed with the foresight of our operations team to take ‘green’ in to serious consideration years ago when designing Ultra that I had to share some of the details early.