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Wyse Customer Enterprise Rent-A-Car Receives Inaugural 'Best Practices in Green IT' Award From Computerworld
Corporate Responsibility Award Given for Successful Thin Client Adoption
SAN JOSE, Calif. –
10/23/2008 -
Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, today announced that its customer, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, was recognized by IDG's Computerworld with an inaugural "Best Practices in Green IT" award for excellence among early adopters and industry leaders in the green information technology (IT) movement.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car received the award for "IT Leadership in Embracing Change with Green IT: Corporate Responsibility" and was chosen from a field of admirable finalists that included Applied Materials, HSBC, Procter & Gamble and Southern Company of Atlanta, Georgia. The announcement was made on September 18 at Computerworld's Green IT Symposium in National Harbor, Maryland.
Offering the most extensive environmental stewardship platform in the rental car industry, Enterprise Rent-A-Car updated its IT infrastructure this summer with the implementation of ECARS 2.0. This new rental transaction system consolidates the reservations, billing and reporting operations of more than 7,000 Enterprise offices around the world with more than 45,000 energy saving thin client terminals, including Wyse V30L terminals.
"One of the key choices we made in developing the ECARS(TM) 2.0 system was going with thin client terminals," said Jim Miller, assistant vice president for Enterprise. "It's the right choice for satisfying our business needs and minimizing our energy consumption when compared to other alternatives."
"We congratulate Enterprise for receiving this prestigious award from Computerworld and for setting a strong example of corporate responsibility," said Jeff McNaught, chief marketing officer at Wyse. "We are thrilled to be partnering with IT departments of companies like Enterprise to install Wyse thin clients to help save money, energy and ultimately, the environment."
The ECARS 2.0 system is expected to save an estimated $500,000 in energy and 6.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide annually. It is a powerful complement to Enterprise Rent-A-Car's environmental stewardship platform, the rental car industry's most comprehensive which includes:
- Offering an industry-leading carbon offset program that enables customers to offset the carbon emissions associated with the average vehicle rental -- with a dollar-for-dollar company match of up to $1 million to fund additional projects.
- Operating the world's largest fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles.
- Embracing new, clean technologies such as E85-capable FlexFuel vehicles and hybrids.
- Pledging to plant 50 million trees over 50 years at a cost of $50 million, as part of the 50 Million Tree Pledge, a unique public/private/nonprofit partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service.
- Funding renewable fuels research through a $25 million gift that created the Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's leading plant research centers.
"While the lower costs and environmental benefits associated with greener IT have long been proven, power consumption by the world's data centers continues to grow," said Ron Milton, executive vice president of Computerworld. "The organizations and professionals judged to be Finalists in Computerworld's inaugural 'Best Practices in Green IT' Awards Program are the early adopters and industry leaders responsible for reducing their IT organization's carbon footprint and are setting industry standards on curbing power consumption, environmental danger, and ongoing costs."
About Wyse Technology
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the information they need using the applications they want, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to information. Wyse partners closely with industry leaders Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others to achieve this objective. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices worldwide.
For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or call 1-800-GET-WYSE
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (http://www.computerworld.com), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in 2007 Computerworld's then editor in chief, Don Tennant, received the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2 million unique, monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,222,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2007).
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