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42U's Vision
Inspire corporate responsibility in energy efficiency and be a leader in providing technology and vendor agnostic information, suggestions, and solutions for making data centers more energy efficient.

Data Center Energy Efficiency
Since 1995, 42U has been a leader in providing data center efficiency solutions for data center and facilities managers. We are dedicated to providing energy efficient best-practice and technology solutions for data centers, computer rooms and server rooms. 42U helps data center managers gain a holistic understanding of their current environment. Our vendor and technology agnostic approach leverages our best-practice expertise in monitoring, airflow analysis, power, measurement, cooling, and best-of-breed efficiency technologies to help data center managers improve energy efficiency, reducing power consumption and subsequently lowering energy costs.

42U Expertise
42U's team of technology specialists provide unbiased, independent, energy efficiency consulting and solutions. We have deep energy efficiency and technical expertise in data center infrastructure systems, including cooling, enclosures, management, monitoring and power. Partnering with leading data center infrastructure equipment manufacturers, we provide best-practice-based consulting and products for data center builds, expansions and consolidations. Since 1995, a majority of the Fortune 500 companies have engaged 42U to resolve their data center challenges and improve data center efficiency.

The 42U Advantage

• Unique to our industry, we are vendor-independent and technology-agnostic, providing fair, unbiased guidance on selecting and managing data center products and solutions.
• We have a proven track record of outstanding customer service with thousands of customers.
• Our product knowledge is hands-on and objective, using an on-site, Center of Excellence.
• We create enduring relationships with customers, working with them through the entire data center project from planning and design to post-sales support.
• We are committed to recommending and implementing products that are proven maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact.

Pre-Sales Engineering and Design Services
42U Sales Engineers develop true business relationships with our clients. We conduct thorough pre-sales interviews so that we understand unique client issues, applications, environmental factors and actual usage. We use this information to design and recommend the best imaginable solution for our clients.

Installation and Training
42U offers complete support for installation, configuration, and training. Our clients require a process that is streamlined and easy to execute. 42U possesses the expertise required to support our clients' full implementation; from physical installation, initial system configuration, through training.

Ongoing Customer Support
42U is dedicated to providing the highest level of customer support. We provide tier 1 technical support, training, and system maintenance to our clients.

The 42U.com website
The intent of the 42U website is to provide the latest information on energy efficiency best practices and vendor and technology agnostic information on the most efficient technologies.

42U Walking the Walk on Energy Efficiency
Some of the energy efficiency initiatives 42U and our employees do to reduce our own energy consumption and carbon footprint:

• Leave the Car at home
  • Company provided lunches
    By providing free lunch for everyone in our head offices, our employees can spend their lunch taking walks, biking, reading, and relaxing instead of using fossil fuels driving to and from fast food restaurants.
  • Company provided Mass Transit Passes
    42U buys RTD passes and gives them to all our local employees at no cost, to encourage our employees to use busses and trains more and drive less.
  • Bike to Work Day Award
    In 2008 our company took first place in our division for RTD's annual "Bike to Work Day". Those who participated biked, car pooled, worked from home, or took mass transit to work. We are hoping to achieve the same in 2009.
• Leave the Employee at home
  • Encourage working from home
    To further reduce driving, we have invested heavily in our remote technologies and remote management. We encourage our employees to work from home 2-3 days a week. We also feel that anytime they don't have to spend commuting to and from work is time they can better spend with their friends and family and thus improve their quality of life.
• Promoting Efficiency for the Common Good
  • Monthly pro-bono energy audit for charitable organizations
    Charities enrich our communities every day. To these agencies, who strive interminably for a greater good, 42U offers one pro-bono energy audit a month, valued at $10,000. If you represent a charitable group or know of a deserving organization, please contact us. Together, we can drive toward a more sustainable, benevolent planet.
• Minimizing our office CO2 Footprint
  • Recycling
    • Our IT staff is required to purchases IT equipment that is over 90% recyclable
    • We print both sides of paper & re-use paper
    • We buy eco-friendly products, and buy only recyclable consumable products
    • We buy food in bulk for our employees, don't use plastic bags, and recycled everything!
  • E-Reader
    • At our reception desk we used to keep several newspapers and magazines for visitors to our office and for our employees.  On the suggestion of one of our employees, we cancelled all those subscriptions.  Now if you come early for a visit to our head office, you will be offered a Kindle 2 E-Reader to read while you wait.
• Electronic forms
  • Internally and with our customers
    We stopped producing any paper sales or marketing materials years ago, moving to publishing online and distributing PDF files. We encourage our customers to accept electronic forms such as orders, quotes, invoices, and electronic transfer payments.
  • Vendors
    We instructed all our vendors to bill and communicate with us by email
  • Banks
    We encourage electronic payments. We still had the reality that most of our customers prefer to send us paper checks so we acquired specialized equipment so that we could scan these checks in and send our deposit info to our banks. This eliminated the need to create paper deposits and have them driven to our bank.
• Web site efficiency content
  • Open sharing of Energy Efficiency suggestions and Best Practices.
    While many companies are very guarded and protective in disclosing what they consider their proprietary knowledge, 42U is aggressively working to document all our knowledge and experience on energy efficiency and provide this information openly to help our website visitors reduce their energy consumption and reduce their organization's carbon footprint.
  • Open sharing of 42U.com Efficiency content, images, and diagrams
    We strongly believe that the more IT Professionals and corporate leaders learn about the devastating effects greenhouse gases have on our environment and the more they learn about the huge amount of CO2 Emissions their data centers produce, the more they will want to learn about implementing energy efficiency best practices to reduce their energy consumption.
    
    We are happy and honored to have the content we create for our 42U.com website used by other organizations to help educate their audiences on these environmental issues and the value of energy efficiency. Please feel free to copy and use any of our content, images, and diagrams as long as you disclose that 42U.com was the source and display a link to the page on our website that you found it on.
    
    We are also happy to provide higher resolution images and diagrams and additional or modified content for government agencies, National Labs, universities and schools, news organizations, blogs, forums, and charities. Both U.S. and international requests are welcome. To receive any content please complete our contact form and provide basic details on how you would like to use our content and what your requirements are.
• Encouraging Facilities and IT Professionals to share their hands-on data center efficiency and sustainability experiences
  • We are strong believers that addressing the environmental issues caused by green house gases is going to be one of the most important challenges of our time. Tackling these critical issues is going to require open sharing of ideas and experiences. We get over 2 million IT Professionals to our web pages from all over the USA and around the globe. If you have hands-on data center efficiency or sustainability experiences that you would be willing to share, we are very interested in those experiences and posting qualified articles which are of value to the larger data center community on our website. As an additional incentive for writing and sharing your efficiency experiences, if we publish an article written by you, we will send you an $150 Amazon.com gift certificate. Please submit your article to submitarticle@42u.com.

For more information call one of our knowledgeable Energy Efficiency Consultants at 1-800-638-2638.

42U's Client List: http://www.42u.com/clients.htm

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