Step 2: Reduce your inventory

Reducing the amount of equipment you operate is a fundamental and powerful step which delivers numerous benefits, including the reduction of:

The basic mantra underpinning sustainability is:

  • power consumption
  • capital and operating costs
  • maintenance contracts and costs
  • administration and operating effort
  • complexity
  • space requirement
  • heat generation
  • manufacturing based consumption
  • e-Waste

The remaining steps outline how this can be achieved.

Steps to create a sustainable IT environment:

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  1. Conduct an energy audit
  2. Reduce Inventory
  3. Consolidate and Centralise
  4. Curb data centre energy use
  5. Use power saving features on equipment
  6. Reduce other office waste
  7. Consider product life cycles
  8. Implement a sustainable procurement policy
  9. Minimise e-waste