Discover How TECD Can Assist You in Achieving a More Environmentally-Friendly IT Infrastructure.
How can TECD help to bring your business in to the future and enable you to decrease initial capital expenditure and your carbon footprint while ensuring next-generation security and advanced technologies?
We can bring sustainable solutions to your workplace from the server room to your desk by applying circular methodologies and working closely with actively eco-conscious manufacturers. Using our product portfolio from various manufacturers, we can now look at a customer’s existing technologies and/or new requirements to design and deploy a sustainability-based solution from household names of the tech industry such as Cisco, HPE, Lenovo and Dell. These and others have committed themselves to positively impacting all stages of the greenhouse gas emissions footprint.
We will use various solutions to assist this process including:
– Virtualisation and Cloud technologies
– Circular Economies
– Hyperconverged Technology
– Edge Technology
– ‘Something’-as-a-Service (XaaS)
– Managed Services
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Green Economy Manufacturers & Evidence
Cisco
Cisco is fully embracing the Net Zero and Circular economy approach to the future of their IT services, Manufacturing and Deployment of networks. They ran their first sustainability event Jan 2022 and will run another in summer 2022. TECD is collaborating with Cisco to help supply and provision lower impact carbon networks and enabling companies in all sectors to decrease their emissions through digital, cloud and off-premises solutions, to name a few.
Improving your IT estate’s sustainability and carbon footprint doesn’t mean you have to spend more. If implemented and planned correctly, it can considerably lower capital and operating expenditures.
For example, Imagine the cost of 1 server for on-premises deployment. The primary focal points are the initial expenditure, future physical upgrade costs, power consumption, and heat output. Suppose this could be converted to an XaaS (Something-as-a-Service) operation or even removed to a cloud environment with the knowledge. In that case, the hardware will always be current and secure, and the data centre hosting it focuses on renewable energies and green economies.
Research by the Uptime Institute found that ageing servers more than three years old make up 40% of the installed base yet perform less than 7% of the work while consuming 66% of the power!1 A separate study by IDC found that with a three-year refresh cycle, each refreshed server resulted in operational cost savings of $76,000 compared to continuing to run the older serve .2
Let’s look in more detail at the portfolio and methods we are using to achieve this.
Circular Recycling – Cisco runs a recycling program ensuring old equipment is recovered and properly disposed of. Above 99% of all the Cisco branded electronics recovered by Cisco are recycled, and Cisco will provide a certificate of recycling. Part of the recycling and disposal process incorporates the Refresh channel, enabling many parts and raw materials to be reused and re-introduced to the market safely, as new and with a full warranty.
Introduction of Hyper-Converged Platforms – removing the need for multiple individual pieces of on-premises equipment. Hyper-Converged systems reduce the overall capital expenditure and negate the need to power and support numerous cabinets full of equipment for each stage of the network architecture.
Silicon One – Cisco has developed a next-generation Microchip, giving what seems like impossible advances in microchip technology. Moore’s law states that the number of transistors in a chip doubles every two years, leading to a doubling of density in that same period. The level of advancement with Silicon One is out-pacing Moore’s Law by an impressive multiplier of three. So, where this hits home is its ability to do what would have previously required a vast physical unit, power and processing requirements. See the example below. Achieving a non-converged 10TB system requires 2,300+ distinct chips – 50 NPUs, 50 fabric interfaces, and 1750 DRAM (on top of many other things) – assembled into 58 pieces of hardware inside a 48RU chassis. Silicon One provides a single chip in a 1RU system. To summarise, one goes from an entire cabinet to a single shelf with colossal power, heat and transport savings.
Environmentally, this is huge!
HPE & HP Inc
HP have a program called ‘Living Progress’. This project includes all aspects of their approach to sustainability within the IT environment and how they are embracing technology advances, low carbon and supply chain improvements, and where the circular economy for them has a positive impact on the environment. At TECD, we want to support these channels and see where we can add value to the process to deliver this to the broader market and take the responsibility from the manufacturer to the eco-conscious end user.
Some of the ways HP achieve all of this:
HPE Greenlake offers a consumption-based approach enabling best in class technologies to optimise the entire IT estate. It makes an impact on your technology stack, allowing you to operate your equipment at its most effective, reducing the consumption of unnecessary assets, and helping customers avoid the costs and depreciation of unused or unneeded equipment
‘Something’-as-a-Service (XaaS) – By using ‘something-as-a-service’ technologies, you can control your consumption and be flexible and fast to deploy, allowing for an access-from-anywhere cloud-based model. As an example, you plan for future expansion when purchasing your latest network refresh and have to estimate future provisioning; how do you do this accurately? On average, it is ‘estimated’ that companies overestimate by 60% for their compute requirements and 50% for storage. 4 As a customer, you are spending this estimation upfront from your capital expenditure for capacity you don’t even need at that point. An ‘as-a-service’ cloud-based model eliminates this spending; if you want more capacity, you turn it on as you need it and pay for it as you need it. With substantial financial savings and considerable environmental benefits, you’re not powering equipment for the idea you will use some of it in the future. See an example below of a DL360 server and its effect on your carbon footprint.
Circular Economy – HPE helps you optimise and repurpose your existing IT investments. They can do this through the lease return and asset recycling program. They boast some of the largest technology recycling and renewal centres. Last year they took in 3.1 million IT assets weighing 35 million pounds – the equivalent weight of 373 Airbus A320 planes!3 The outcome from these centres is multi-faceted, so it could be that this hardware makes it into the HPE Renew program, which offers like-new equipment in new packaging with full warranties. Alternatively, it may be that the equipment is responsibly disposed of and recycled for other purposes.
Greenlake Edge to Cloud Platform – This allows your previously overloaded on-premises experience to move to the edge and the cloud. A centralised portal will enable you to deploy and manage workloads and capacities across your datacentre, colo’s or just at your edge equipment. A powerful tool to keep you involved, compliant and notably on top of your usage and associated costs. HPE GreenLake customers benefit from 30% capital expenditure savings, on average, by eliminating the need for overprovisioning
Points of reference
1 Beyond PUE: Tackling IT’s Wasted Terawatts – Uptime Institute
2 Accelerate business agility with faster server refresh cycles”, IDC, 2017
3 IT Asset Management and Lifecyle Solutions & Services | HPEFS | HPE
4 As-a-Service: What it is and how it’s changing the face of IT and business | HPE
Collaborating To Achieve Net Zero and Circular Economy Ambitions (cisco.com)
2020 Living Progress Report | HPE
HPE circular economy: A complete IT asset lifecycle approach | HPE
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