The consumption-based IT model provides immense business value. To begin with, it offers the flexibility to expand and contract storage based on evolving business needs. It’s also written off as an operating as opposed to a capital expense, as would be physical hardware. But another significant benefit companies should consider is the positive environmental impact it provides.
When a company consumes data storage as a service, it naturally requires less hardware and thus reduces electronic waste. But beyond this, eliminating on-premises or collocated data centers can notably reduce inefficiencies and overprovisioning while minimizing excess energy consumption. Eliminating the need for overprovisioning alone, according to Forrester’s article titled “Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake, 2020”, shrinks total cost of ownership by 30 percent.
Consumption-based solutions like HPE’s Greenlake helps organizations optimize and consolidate their infrastructure, boosting server utilization and eliminating comatose compute resources such as abandoned or obsolete equipment that’s no longer useful and simply drains energy. Greenlake right-sizes infrastructure while optimizing server refresh cycles due to its use of newer technologies with improved performance. Greenlake is also a sustainable solution for data intensive on-premise apps that can’t shift to the cloud due to governance, latency, compliance, and cost issues.
Identifying the right IT model when building your digital transformation strategy doesn’t just cut cost and improve operations but it also reduces your carbon footprint at the same time. Learn more at: https://community.hpe.com/t5/Advancing-Life-Work/How-to-transform-and-digitize-with-sustainability-in-mind/ba-p/7124385#.