EDGE (Enterprises Driving Growth and Excellence through IT) award instituted by UBM group acknowledges and honors companies that have demonstrated the best use of technology for maximizing business impact. In 2010, Apeejay Surrendra Corporate Services recieved the award for its Project Shakti i.e Virtualisation leads to better CPU utilization.

Pursuit of Sustainablility in IT operations of our rapidly expanding Group had led the company to undertake Project Shakti a few years back. In this project 22 servers of the 40 servers have been migrated to a single virtualised platform using HP DL360 and IBM X3650 servers and since then, the requirements of five new servers have been nixed. This project helped enhance the utilization of existing servers from 15% to 80%, deployment of new servers without actually buying physical servers leading to cost optimization and faster response time.

Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT today. Project Shakti is a real example of delivering "More with less" as it resolved the low utilization and the complexity faced in managing so many servers. Along with allied power and space savings, with an assumption of average 4 tons of CO2 annually per server, the company roughly generated a savings of around 100 tons of CO2 per year. Whether the goal is to reduce cost, save the environment impact or keep our Data Center running efficient, the company is focused on Green IT .. a journey and a philosophy, which will be pursued and followed up in coming years.