How IT can help drive sustainability: A comprehensive model

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Digital transformation and resource optimization efforts open up big opportunities to advance your environmental goals, but to capitalize on them you need to see the big picture. That’s where the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework comes in.

By Richard Amos, HPE digital transformation advisor and strategist

IT leaders are increasingly eager to make a solid contribution to their organization’s overarching environmental goals. They’re clearly in synch with a range of stakeholders, including investors, customers and board members, who understand that doing the right thing for the business means doing the right thing for the planet.

What’s involved in building a sustainable IT strategy? I looked at that question in a recent article: Develop sustainability with a holistic strategy. I pointed out that some of IT’s most pressing current priorities – such as driving digital transformation and optimizing resource consumption – offer synergistic opportunities for advancing sustainability goals. But to capitalize on those opportunities, companies need the ability to see the big picture: “Today’s technology leaders must think about sustainability holistically. With the growing demand for infrastructure efficiency, building energy efficiency into the overall digital transformation is a natural fit.”

HPE Services can help you build a modern operating model inclusive of sustainable IT by providing a holistic, 360-degree view of your transformation landscape. The HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework breaks down the complexity of transformation into eight key domains and provides a repeatable and predictable approach to transformation success. The Framework encompasses the tools, best practices, and expertise needed to establish the vision for your sustainability initiative, set your metrics, develop a communication strategy, align with overall organization objectives and much more.

Read the full article to learn:

• Why your key performance indicators should include asset procurement, asset decommissioning and sustainable consumption capabilities for a complete lifecycle perspective, and how the Force for Good Financing Program from HPE Financial Services can help.
• Why you’ll want to take a close look at power utilization, and how leveraging efficient infrastructure, appropriate workload placement, rightsized instances, and autoscaling can have a dramatic impact on cost and resource usage.
• Why your people are the key to the project’s success, and how leveraging a proven framework can help you empower them to accelerate the strategy.

And here’s some great news for any IT organization that’s looking to press forward towards bold environmental goals. Today, HPE announced a range of advances and offerings designed to help businesses do just that.

To take just a few examples: We unveiled a preview of a new sustainability dashboard for HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. We announced enhancements to HPE Services spanning strategy, operations, and IT asset lifecycle management. And we’ve expanded the Force for Good financial incentive program that I mentioned above.  Check out our press release for the details: Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps organizations reduce IT carbon footprint with new sustainability dashboard and comprehensive portfolio of services.

Learn more about HPE’s approach to sustainable IT and how we help customers and communities address environmental challenges while meeting the technology demands of the future.

Richard Amos is an HPE digital transformation advisor and strategist with over 35 years in technology delivery and successful transformation strategy development. As a technology leader, he is experienced in building vision and leading cross‑functional teams to enable innovation and new business outcomes.

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