“ In my view , the CIO is going to become the C-suite champion for sustainability ”
NICOLA ACUTT , CSO , NETAPP
to develop a sustainability-informed approach to managing their data estate .
The capabilities in our software , ONTAP and particularly the Blue XP sustainability dashboard , allow customers to be smarter in a couple of ways . First of all , by storing only the data that they actually need and cutting energy and carbon associated with that data footprint by using the most efficient hardware available . NetApp provides some of the most efficient hardware solutions for storage on the market .
Then it ’ s applying that intelligence to create more efficiencies in classifying data . What is useful data , what is not useful , what needs to be stored , what needs to be deleted ? And then finally being able to have the intelligence and the capabilities to move that data to different locations with greener grids .
Q . WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE SUSTAINABILITY SPHERE ?
» There seems to be a lot of concern at the moment about the future of sustainability . But I think we ’ re going to see acceleration , especially at the intersection of AI and sustainability . Sustainability starts with data and it can be accelerated with intelligent data infrastructure . There are solutions that we have today which , if deployed at scale now , while we are building towards
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