Accellion announces the 2008 Accellion Green Award

By Nathesh

TMCnet Contributor

Procter & Gamble, Ogilvy (News - Alert) & Mather Worldwide and Activision were all chosen winners of the 2008 Accellion Green Award, an announcement from Accellion stated.

Accellion is the provider of managed file transfer solutions and the Accellion Green Award recognizes corporations that are “power” users of Accellion technology and their significant environmental contributions in choosing to send information digitally.

“Using Accellion digital delivery to send information has significant financial and environmental benefits over traditional physical shipping methods,” said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion. “The environmental savings from Accellion add up quickly from reduced paper usage, elimination of overnight shipments of CDs and associated CO2 emissions from use of trucks and planes to deliver digital information. We applaud the 2008 Accellion Green Award winners for the environmental contributions they are making when entrusting Accellion to deliver their digital information.”

Accellion chose its winner among the 400 companies that use Accellion for managed file transfer. It is estimated that one terabyte of data transferred electronically will save around 50000 trees cut for paper to be printed and about 2000 CDs of made for storage. Each of the 2008 Accellion Green Award winners is a major contributor to the worldwide volume of eco (News - Alert)-friendly file transfer.

“We are pleased to be recognized for this award,” said Jeff Nicolai, eMail & Web content service manager at Procter & Gamble. “Across P&G we are on a journey to deliver an additional 10 percent reduction in the environmental footprint of our operations by 2012. Every step we take to reduce printing and overnight deliveries helps in this effort.”

“At Ogilvy talking about environmental responsibility is simply not enough. On a global basis we have taken many steps to do our part in contributing to the sustainability of the environment,” said Yuri Aguiar, Senior Partner, Chief Technology Officer at Ogilvy Worldwide. “Reducing CO2 emissions by sending information digitally via Accellion is just one of the eco-friendly steps we have taken to help tackle climate change.”

Thomas Fenady, senior director of Information Technology at Activision (News - Alert) said: “Using the Accellion technology we are now able to move terabytes of data in near real time without shipping disks via trucks, or planes. We are pleased to be honored for our efforts to help eliminate unnecessary CO2 emissions.”

Accellion on its part to be a greener enterprise released the Accellion Green Digital Logistics solution earlier this month. It helps companies keep track of electronic info that would have otherwise been an environmental waste. All Accellion solutions are by nature Green. However, Accellion Green is specifically designed for those organizations who want to track their environmental savings in real-time.

Nathesh is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.

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