TerniEnergia, a company active in the renewable energy sector listed on the Star segment of the Borsa Italiana, received at Smau Business Roma the Innovation Award ICT Lazio, an initiative that the Centre Smau-Politecnico di Milano School of Management launched to support a culture of innovation in the business world, rewarding companies, local governments and government agencies that have successfully invested in technologies to support the business.
The Award was delivered by Davide Bordoni, Minister for Trade and Production of Rome, to TerniEnergia Chief Information Officer Mr. Riccardo Rossi.
Notably, the Centre Smau School of Management Politecnico in Milan has recognized the validity of the project developed in collaboration with Dell, the world leader in the production of personal computers and computer systems, to create a virtual infrastructure that is today a fundamental asset for the company. The project has helped to reduce significantly the impact of business activities on environment, element in line with the mission of TerniEnergia.
Virtual servers operate all key applications, with the guarantee of their maximum availability to end users, without any kind of comparison on their management flexibility and the ability to activate quickly new services when required by the company. Similarly, the fast growth of business enterprise can be more easily supported by the creation of new machines and scalability of applications provided in virtual mode.
TerniEnergia was also involved in a workshop hosted by Business Smau Roma on Green mission: “How to grow and develop by improving the world around us, the case TerniEnergia”, during which he was presented the idea of innovation later rewarded.
As to the recognition, the Chief Information Officer Riccardo Rossi stated:
“We have received the award Smau with great satisfaction, because it captures the full content of the project developed in collaboration with Dell, which in addition to introducing criteria of innovation and efficiency in the business organization allows a substantial reduction in CO2 emissions, reduced power consumption and greater environmental sustainability. In line with the shared principles of green IT, TERNI Research Group reached, thanks to hardware virtualization infrastructure, an important goal of saving the park information.
This project has completely changed the management of IT, making it easier and more effective, especially closer to the business. Now we are able to respond with great flexibility and responsiveness to requests that come from different areas, thus contributing in a concrete way to competitiveness in the market. We can say that IT has transformed itself from a pure business to Company strong support point”.
