NetApp Delivers Portfolio Innovations to Address Skyrocketing Energy Costs, Heightened Sustainability Goals for Global Organizations

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a world, cloud-led, data-centric software program firm right now introduced availability of latest methods for corporations to monitor, handle, and optimize their carbon footprints throughout their hybrid, multi-cloud environments. The firm additionally outlined its dedication to obtain a 50 p.c depth discount of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (produced by a corporation’s worth chain) by 2030, and a 42 p.c discount of Scope 1 (managed or owned by a corporation) and Scope 2 (electrical energy, warmth, and cooling purchases) GHG emissions by way of adoption of a science-aligned goal.

“The unparalleled environmental challenges we face require everyone to be a part of the solution. We are deeply integrating sustainability into the strategy and operational priorities of our business,” stated George Kurian, Chief Executive Officer at NetApp. “It’s our belief that the world’s ongoing energy challenges require innovative solutions and we’re steadfastly committed to continuing to develop energy-efficient technologies and solutions that allow our customers to greatly reduce their carbon footprint. We’re also committed to expanding sustainable practices within our own business by setting a bold, but achievable target of a 50 percent intensity reduction of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030.”

With new instruments and assets introduced at NetApp INSIGHT, organizations can extra successfully obtain their carbon discount targets whereas assembly their very own buyer calls for:

• NetApp BlueXP delivers a unified expertise throughout hybrid multi-cloud environments to convey all utility and information storage companies right into a single management airplane. BlueXP supplies power-consumption reporting with dashboards that permit corporations to make selections about shifting crucial information to steadiness business wants with carbon effectivity.
• NetApp Cloud InsightsDashboard is a brand new function that reviews on energy utilization and temperature for ONTAP storage. NetApp Cloud Insights supplies visibility and reporting of a corporation’s use of compute and storage throughout all on-premises and cloud environments to discover and deal with waste and inefficiencies, which helps clients make knowledgeable selections that may cut back prices and waste, together with these round lowering emissions.
• Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) carbon footprint reviews leveraging the Product Attribute Impact Algorithm (PAIA) methodology. NetApp was the primary storage-focused supplier to be part of PAIA, a consortium of data and communication know-how friends, sponsored by MIT. The PAIA consortium permits NetApp to produce a streamlined LCA for its merchandise that’s aligned with main requirements together with EPEAT, IEEE 1680.1 and the French product labeling initiative Grenelle.
• NetApp’s 4:1 Storage Efficiency Guarantee for SAN workloads is NetApp’s promise that corporations can retailer extra information with much less storage, which reduces vitality utilization and GHG emissions. The assure covers all ONTAP all-flash techniques together with AFF A-Series, AFF C190, All SAN Array, and FAS500f.

NetApp’s total portfolio of services allow clients to construct out the hybrid multi-cloud environments that meet their business and sustainability goals and supply a holistic, complete strategy to making a extra sustainable IT construction.

• NetApp Cloud Tiering permits corporations to mechanically and seamlessly transfer occasionally used information, typically 60 p.c or extra of an organization’s whole information property, from on-premises ONTAP storage to the cloud. For information that should stay within the information heart, Cloud Tiering reduces the quantity of uncooked storage wanted by way of deduplication, compression and compaction. With Cloud Tiering, over a five-year interval, NetApp’s midrange storage clients cut back their emissions by up to 56.3 metric tons of carbon dioxide equal (CO₂e).
• NetApp Cloud Data Sense is a knowledge catalog and classification answer that makes use of synthetic intelligence to map and classify all cloud and on-premises information. Understanding the info can assist IT organizations cut back storage prices and enhance sustainability by way of higher decision-making, for instance by figuring out chilly information that resides on-premises and could also be moved to the cloud to cut back vitality used within the information heart.
• NetApp Active IQ (AIQ) is an AIOps engine that tallies the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for regularly used and accessed information saved on-premises, and NetApp’s Cloud Tiering TCO device calculates the financial savings generated by shifting to the cloud.
• NetApp Harvest 2.0 and Grafana Dashboard for ONTAP present real-time insights into the ability consumption of NetApp {hardware} whereas NetApp Fusion, a sizing and configuration device, supplies environmental specs by particular configuration.

“Companies need visibility into, and insight on, the sustainability and efficiency state of their hybrid, multi-cloud environments to better understand where they can make changes to reduce their carbon footprints,” stated Cesar Cernuda, President at NetApp. “NetApp’s ongoing commitment to innovation in our product portfolio, combined with the company’s decarbonization efforts, provide organizations with the tools and resources they need to reduce costs, run more efficient operations, and enable emissions-based decision making in order to achieve their own sustainability goals.”

NetApp’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) dedication and management has been acknowledged by exterior consultants, together with EcoVadis who not too long ago awarded NetApp a Gold rating. This proof primarily based ESG score company supplies provider rankings throughout the weather of atmosphere, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. A Gold rank places NetApp among the many high 7 p.c of all corporations rated by EcoVadis.

NetApp is a founding member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program for information heart storage, with a number of storage techniques licensed as ENERGY STAR 2.1 merchandise, together with NetApp AFF, FAS and E-Series information storage techniques.

Later this 12 months, NetApp’s third ESG Impact Report might be printed. The report covers NetApp’s ESG methods, actions, progress, metrics and efficiency for international operations for the fiscal 12 months ending April 30, 2022.

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NetApp is a world, cloud-led, data-centric software program firm that empowers organizations to lead with information within the age of accelerated digital transformation. The firm supplies techniques, software program and cloud companies that allow them to run their purposes optimally from information heart to cloud, whether or not they’re growing within the cloud, shifting to the cloud, or creating their very own cloudlike experiences on premises. With options that carry out throughout various environments, NetApp helps organizations construct their very own information material and securely ship the fitting information, companies, and purposes to the fitting individuals—anytime, wherever. Learn extra at www.netapp.com or observe us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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