IDC White Paper
Elmec and Pure Storage for A Sustainable and Performing Data Centre
A white paper by IDC to investigate the sustainable and efficient development of Italian data centres
ContinueOur mission - to be simply reliable for our clients, employees and community – is combined with our commitment to a sustainable management of our business through a sustainability strategy in line with global goals and expressing our inclinations and peculiarities.
Want to read our Sustainability Report?
Our mission - to be simply reliable for our clients, employees and community – is combined with our commitment to a sustainable management of our business through a sustainability strategy in line with global goals and expressing our inclinations and peculiarities.
Want to read our Sustainability Report?
At Elmec, our approach to sustainability is based on scientific data and value, and focused on our clients, our community and employees.
We make audits on a regular basis to understand the most significant environmental and social aspects for our business to give priorities to our work for a sustainable future.
The way we deliver our services, the way we treat our employees, and the relationship with our community and institutions are key factors for us to build a social responsibility strategy.
Some of the sustainability topics to which we give high priority are:
Climate change, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
An equal and inclusive workplace that favours work-life balance.
Delivering our services putting sustainability at the heart of our decision-making process.
Giving back value to our community through passion and skills
We want to create a shared culture, becoming a point of reference in terms of best practice, for our clients, our employees, the community and the territory.
All the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities are aimed at involving all of our stakeholders actively.
Elmec Impact is a document divided into three different impact areas (COMMUNITY, EMPLOYEES, MARKETPLACE) which intertwine with the various initiatives which, heterogeneously and with the active cooperation of all employees, characterize our business.
#SimplyReliable for 50 years
Our community initiatives are related to social integration, cultural and sporting events, donations, sponsorships, free services and facilities, volunteering, support to local entities, and relationships with charities and public entities.
It is estimated that about 90% of the food we eat is influenced by the bee pollination; bees’ life is constantly in danger due to climate change and pollution. At Elmec, we have decided to contribute to preserving biodiversity by putting, in front of our green data centre, three beehives.
Through the Mile Zero project, we are monitoring how much CO2 we are being able to save with remote working and videoconferencing. On our Intranet, employees can add, on a daily basis, the kilometers they have been able to save on that day. In 2021, we saved over 1,000,000 km, eliminating 146,183 kg of CO2.
At Elmec, there is an Information Technology museum that tells the story of half a century of digital evolution. To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we have decided to renovate it with an audio guide narrated by our technical team. We have created it to share with our visitors an important part of IT history in which we have played a leading role.
We have developed a solution that allows children, who are forced to stay either at the hospital or home for long, to connect to their own classroom’s livestream using a tablet and EOLO connection; a robot is present in the classroom on the child’s behalf. Over time, Ivo has become a real opportunity for local schools and institutions.
We donated the IT equipment to support vaccinations’ operational management. Then we installed a redundant LAN that helped communication between the two pavilions, and ensured service continuity, and provided the hub with Wi-Fi connection devices. We also donated other logistic and staging material.
Almost 20,000 km run by our employees to support the development of the Magic Room at Fondazione Piatti’s autistic centre in Varese; we donated for each kilometer run, and this is the result of the 50x50 challenge in favour of autistic children of whom Fondazione Piatti takes care. This initiative allowed us to raise and donate over €10,000.
saved in 2021 thanks to remote working and videoconferencing.Want to know how far we’ve gone?