FEATURE: GREEN ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
To drive meaningful change, IT providers are focusing on three key areas:
Architecting green infrastructure
Transitioning to renewable energy sources is no longer a choice but a necessity. Forward-thinking IT providers are partnering with data centres powered by solar, wind, or other renewable energy sources, drastically reducing their Scope 2 emissions. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased electricity, and by reducing these, companies can significantly lower their overall carbon footprint.
Virtualisation, a technique that allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server, also reduces hardware needs. By consolidating workloads onto fewer physical machines, organisations can lower energy consumption, reduce cooling costs, and minimise their overall environmental footprint by as much as 70 %.
Vishal Barapatre, Group Chief Technology Officer, In2IT Technologies
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