Organisations are under growing pressure to ensure their technology consumption is environmentally sustainable.
While technology holds immense potential for advancing a low-carbon economy, its rising consumption could undermine progress toward net-zero goals. For instance, generative AI services like ChatGPT use significantly more energy per action compared to traditional Google searches. However, AI can also play a crucial role in optimising energy usage, enhancing asset reliability through predictive maintenance, and identifying demand peaks to manage and distribute energy efficiently.
Technological acceleration
The rapid pace of technological change over the past few years has significantly transformed on-prem options for customers, such as:
Innovations in hardware and software
Have enabled massive consolidations and enhanced efficiencies, even on relatively new equipment.
Newer on-prem equipment
Has been designed with energy efficiency in mind with advanced cooling technologies, energy-efficient processors, and power management systems have substantially reduced the power consumption of modern data centres. By consolidating workloads onto fewer, more efficient machines, organisations can cut their energy costs dramatically and reducing the overall carbon footprint.
Virtualisation and containerisation technologies
Have revolutionised the way workloads are managed and deployed on-premises. These technologies allow multiple applications to run on a single physical server, maximising hardware utilisation and reducing the need for additional physical machines.
Modern on-prem solutions offer greater scalability and flexibility compared to their predecessors, allowing organisations to easily scale their infrastructure up or down based on demand, ensuring that they only use the resources they need, helping to maintain cost efficiency while providing the capability to handle varying workloads. By leveraging these technological advancements, businesses can dramatically cut space and power costs to achieve a more streamlined and sustainable on-premises environment.
SCC: Your multi-cloud partner for sustainable, low-carbon operations
We understand that data and processing can consume considerable amounts of energy, especially in an age of Big Data, automation and AI. A hybrid cloud approach holds the key towards reducing environmental impacts in these areas, and we provide a full range of services that make cloud migration as seamless, successful and environmentally-friendly as possible:
Hybrid Cloud Readiness Assessment
Our expert consultants and advisory services can assess your current environment and future requirements, with sustainability firmly in mind. From this, we can determine the ideal mix of on-prem, public cloud and private cloud for your specific organisational needs, while enabling sustainability gains along the way.
Next Gen Platform Assessment
Whatever combination of edge computing, colocation, managed private cloud and public cloud services you need can be tailored to your requirements – all supported by our low-power, high-density data centre in Birmingham with 40MW of solar roof panels.
SCC Vision
A new platform for tracking and reporting on the carbon footprint and energy consumption of cloud resources, including a sustainability-focused dashboard. This enables resource optimisation and the right-sizing of cloud workloads, informed decision-making around sustainability, and more detailed ESG reporting.
SCC Recyclea
Our innovative solution for recycling, refurbishing and remarketing older devices. This is especially useful for recycling on-premise equipment rendered obsolete by cloud migration, without generating unnecessary levels of harmful electronic waste, and enabling the circular economy.
Intelligent Financing
Flexible funding options, supported by our partners Rigby Finance, can help you migrate your technical debt affordably. We can provide staggered payment plans with low initial costs, to speed up the process of moving away from inefficient legacy platforms, as well as residual value financing for retiring old equipment.
App Modernisation
Helping you transition from traditional virtual machines to more efficient architectures, such as containers, cloud-native applications and serverless functions, enabling major reductions in both costs and energy consumption simultaneously.
How SCC can help
SCC is one of the few IT providers within the UK that have the capability to support on the design and installation of data centre infrastructures, whether that’s consolidating your on-premise environment, migrating to the public cloud, leveraging SCC’s in-house hosting capabilities or mixing all three approaches, our range of multi-cloud services can accelerate your journey to net-zero.
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