IBM is expanding its portfolio of sustainability products with new services that help customers reduce data center energy consumption and safely dispose of old equipment and redundant data.
IBM's Technology Lifecycle Services Group has added three new services to its sustainability portfolio: Sustainability Optimization Assessment, Asset Recovery and Disposal, and Data Erasure Services.
Many companies update and consolidate data center hardware to improve efficiency and improve workload performance, said Dylan Boday, IBM's vice president of product management for technology lifecycle services. In addition, they are migrating their on-premises data centers to colocation facilities and the cloud. “Cost reduction, increased efficiency, increased security, and environmental responsibility are some of the reasons to modernize or consolidate data center hardware and move toward broader data center optimization.” Boday he wrote on his blog about this news.
According to an IDC sustainability study cited by Boday, “three-quarters (75%) of organizations surveyed believe that sustainability and circularity are important factors in the IT equipment procurement process. Masu.”
Global environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations have increased by 155% over the past decade, putting increasing pressure on companies to define implementation pathways to achieve compliance, Bodey said. When achieving environmental goals, companies often achieve optimization of his IT resources, which has a positive impact on operational costs, he says Boday. In an IDC study, nearly 40% of line-of-business managers surveyed said their financial performance has improved or expects to improve as a result of sustainability-related investments.
To support these efforts, IBM's Sustainability Optimization Assessment surveys your data center environment and establishes your IT optimization and hardware refresh needs. We can then recommend a viable plan for host consolidation or replacement.
The service leverages IBM's AI-based Turbonomic service to suggest sustainability goals across the entire data center lifecycle. IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds that helps customers understand the best ways to build efficient computing resources and avoid overprovisioning. Masu.
Another new service, IBM Asset Recovery and Disposition, is designed to help data center customers manage older or no longer needed assets such as servers and storage. This includes removing the equipment, assessing its actual value, and then reselling or recycling the asset. The idea is to provide an environmentally and economically sound way to enable a circular economy for retired assets, whether organizations resell or recycle them, Bodey said.
According to an article in Computerworld, the circular economy is an economic model that aims to eliminate waste by reusing, repairing, remanufacturing, and refurbishing assets and devices to keep them in circulation and in use for longer. point. “This model is in contrast to the traditional linear economy, where resources are extracted, used to make something, and then disposed of. A circular economy involves reducing waste, promoting reuse and recycling, There is an emphasis on designing products with longevity and sustainability in mind. It is gaining traction in the IT industry as a way to address environmental issues, reduce e-waste and promote sustainable practices.” the article states.
IBM's third new service is aimed at helping data center customers securely and properly erase and sanitize no longer needed data from IT hardware and devices. Data erasure services are enabled through a partnership with Blancco Software Technology.
Boday said IBM technicians are certified to deliver Blancco's data erasure software and work with customers to identify data erasure strategies by assessing their environments and assets. “Upon completion of erasure services, clients receive a tamper-proof erasure certificate tailored to their requirements. This document allows clients to certify their end-of-life data handling and ensure that their data storage assets are not redeployed, resold or You can donate,” he said Boday.
New sustainability services complement existing offerings from IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS), including media retention services, infrastructure optimization, hardware uninstallation and package installation, and other logistics support To do.
The new IBM service is available now and can be purchased separately or as part of the IBM TLS end-to-end package.