Cisco is aiming to make your data center, and your company, greener than ever
Cisco doubles down on major sustainability pledge
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Cisco has unveiled plans for a major sustainability push as the company looks to gogreenerthan ever.
With rising energy bills affecting businesses across the world, the company has revealed a number of initiaties aimed at lessening the environmental impact of technology.
The push was emphasized by company CEO Chuck Robbins, who took to the stage atCisco Live 2023to declare that sustainability is now among the company’s top five customer priorities.
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“Operating sustainably and equitably is the only way to do business," Robbins added, highligthing Cisco’s goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2040, and its commitment 100% product return upon request with no extra cost to customers.
Data centers are increasingly being identified as a hugely energy-hungry entity, with Cisco quoting figures that data centerserversand switches draw up to 2% of all electricity in the United States alone, with energy consumption representing up to 30% of data center costs.
In order to give customers more insight into their energy consumption, the company has upgraded its Cisco Nexus Dashboard to include energy management analytics, giving extra visibility across the entire Cisco Networking Cloud.
With help from Cisco API integration partners Panduit and Vertiv, this will include real-time and historical insights into the energy consumption, energy costs, and greenhouse-gas emissions of Cisco Nexus switches and other IT equipment in the data center.
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The service will also monitor the ambient temperature of data centers to help improve cooling efficiency, while keeping an eye on any additional servers, switches or storage.
In the wider Interet of Things (IoT) scope, the company was keen to show off its Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard, which gives organizations real-time insight into the equipment, no matter where it is located.
Also falling under scrutiny are Webex services such as meetings,video conferencingcalls and meetings, which will now provide insights to Webex Control Hub, allowing users to estimate their emissions and examine monthly trends on energy consumption.
The company also appointed Mary de Wysocki as its first chief sustainability officer last year, and she was keen to highlight the work Cisco is doing.
“One of the fascinating areas going forward will be how we think about incorporating sustainable decisions deeper into our business,” she said. “I do think that as we show up into the community, we can have a positive impact as we think about the right technologies, policies, and practices.”
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK’s leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, and when he’s not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
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