Think sustainability just isn’t going to be a top-5 dialog at your subsequent company assembly? Think once more.
Sustainability issues are more and more displaying up in targets, inquiries, and calls for from stakeholders at massive.
To cite some examples:
- Many firms worldwide have already got added Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) to their requests for proposals (RFPs) for IT distributors;
- Moreover, globally, organizations are additionally setting targets to succeed in net-zero greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissionsacross their worth chain or scale back them considerably going ahead. According to Gartner®[1], 50% of CIOs may have efficiency metrics tied to the sustainability of their IT organizations by 2025;
- Furthermore, governments world wide have formidable targets and commitments round sustainability, and the sustainability regulatory panorama continues to quickly evolve.
Whether you’re simply at first of your company sustainability planning or within the center, it’s essential to acknowledge how you can make investments and you can’t do it alone—you want trusted advisors that can assist you plan, implement, and measure your progress. That requires discovering the fitting companion.
“Cisco’s partner ecosystem is imperative to achieve the speed and scale we need to manage our own net zero journey as well as support our customer’s sustainability goals. Both Cisco and our partners bring technology and services to the table to provide comprehensive solutions for our customers. We are better together when we are aligned on the importance and priority of driving sustainability across functions so we can accelerate and scale our efforts.”
– Denise Lee, VP, Engineering Sustainability Office, Cisco
Is Your Partner Sustainability Specialized?
Cisco and its companion ecosystem have been working collectively to assist our mutual clients’ progress in the direction of their ESG commitments internally in addition to sustainability of their choices for their very own clients. Cisco helps our registered companions get specialised, to allow them to reply to buyer RFPs and broaden their companies choices. To date, 471 companions have accomplished Cisco’s Environmental Sustainability Specialization which covers product takeback and reuse/recycle applications, and rewards companions for promoting new merchandise for buyer refresh or migration alternatives. By changing into specialised, these trusted advisors can assist clients improve and modernize their networks and assist to fulfill their round financial system targets on the similar time.
Cisco and Global Strategic Partners Supporting Sustainability and Solutions
In addition, Cisco is working carefully with our companions to assist clients put money into options designed with sustainability in thoughts. Here are a couple of examples of how Cisco and our Global Strategic companions are driving sustainability in enterprise practices within the subject:
- NTT and Cisco are growing and deploying joint options that leverage NTT’s Edge as-a-Service portfolio and Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, concentrating on the manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare industries. Several clients – together with one in water distribution – are already deploying this “ruggedized” service to speed up their digital transformation and align with their sustainability targets.
- Cisco and Rockwell Automation joined forces to construct a water distribution stress administration answer to enhance industrial water and wastewater programs operations. This Digital Water Solutions cloud-based platform, launched in November 2022, notifies water utilities of anomalies that could possibly be brought on by leaks—serving to to cut back water loss and save vitality. “The level of collaboration between Rockwell and Cisco through the Cisco Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program is an inspiring example of how we combine technology, services, and partnership to strengthen our sustainability commitment to our customers and the environment,” mentioned Tom O’Reilly, Vice President of Sustainability at Rockwell Automation. “We can deliver an enhanced and differentiated portfolio of sustainable solutions to the market by working together.”
- While buildings assist so many important aspects of our life—from work, faculty, and healthcare to hospitality and leisure—they’re additionally accountable for ~40% of worldwide CO2 emissions . Schneider Electric is integrating Cisco Spaces into their EcoStruxure Buildings Operation to supply clients a single pane of glass that may present actionable insights wanted to higher handle and optimize buildings, meet cybersecurity wants, and enhance engineering effectivity. The clever constructing administration software program answer can ingest Cisco Spaces occupancy information, optimize it, and supply personalized, automated suggestions that drive EcoStruxure Building Operations Energy Management options.
- Even with sustainability initiatives underway, organizations usually have problem measuring and reporting progress. Together, Cisco and Honeywell are driving the way forward for sensible constructing know-how—in new development and retrofits, and conventional and hybrid work environments. The partnership is targeted on making buildings extra environment friendly, extra sustainable, safer, and more healthy at a decrease whole value of possession (TCO). Cisco’s community and collaboration applied sciences mixed with Honeywell’s sensor know-how and constructing administration programs and companies create a converged community infrastructure to automate constructing operations and scale back development complexity. Honeywell Building Management System (BMS) makes use of information from linked gadgets to observe, management and take proactive measures in reference to mechanical programs, air high quality, safety, and extra. Click right here for extra data.
- Data facilities are additionally a key focus of IT’s sustainability drive. However, visibility is required earlier than vitality discount will be achieved. Cisco and Hitachi Vantara are centered on Data Center Decarbonization utilizing a mixture of Hitachi’s Carbon Insights Platform and Ops Center Clear Sight, which might present details about the vitality consumption throughout the fleet of storage merchandise, and Cisco’sUnified Platform Experience which might flip the community into an Energy Management management aircraft. This can assist organizations optimize vitality consumption, decrease prices, scale back their carbon footprint, and monitor vitality use. Read this February 2023 weblog on “De-Carbing the Data Center” by Denise Lee and Hitachi Ventara.
- Logicalis is proud to be part of Cisco’s world initiative to responsibly repurpose or recycle end-of-use merchandise, presently holds Cisco’s sustainability specialization in 8 international locations world wide and continues constructing on its achievements. They lately started working with an industrial firm that produces glass and aluminum merchandise. The buyer wished to companion with an integrator that would meet their IT necessities whereas additionally supporting their ESG targets. They had been trying to modernize their ageing switching infrastructure and scale back operational overhead by automating their community and growing visibility. Logicalis was in a position to make the most of Cisco´s takeback and reuse program, supporting acceptable processing of their present infrastructure to its subsequent greatest use, and handed alongside the 7% value financial savings by funding future skilled companies for the shopper.
“Through our collaborative partnership with Cisco, we can offer our customers the best solutions that work to drive measurable progress towards their sustainability goals. Fostering sustainability as a core value within a company also promotes growth and new business opportunities. With the help of our joint offerings alongside Cisco, we can help all organisations embark upon their carbon reduction journey and achieve significant and sustainable business outcomes.”
– Bob Bailkoski, CEO at Logicalis
As you may see, there are lots of ways in which Cisco and its world strategic companions can add worth in designing and implementing options with sustainability in thoughts.
For extra data on how you can plan your sustainability blueprint for 2023, hearken to the replay of our April 25 LinkedIn Live webinar with Logicalis CEO Bob Bailkoski and Denise Lee, VP of Cisco’s Engineering Sustainability Office. You’ll hear our energetic dialogue about sustainability in enterprise practices and applications to assist your company environmental targets. You’ll additionally be capable of entry some useful supplies together with our Cisco Sustainable Solutions eBook and registration for Logicalis’ CIO Summit in June.
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[1] Gartner: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Sustainable Technology, Key Reports. 10 Mar. 2023
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