Track the performance of your IT assets using Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Track the performance of your IT assets using Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT

    The Sustainable IT application enhances your ability to manage and monitor emissions and energy consumption of hardware assets throughout their lifecycle. By integrating Hardware Asset Management with Sustainable IT, organizations can effectively track assets from acquisition to disposal, ensuring responsible management of energy use and e-waste.

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    Key Features

    • Inventory Management: Maintain a comprehensive inventory of hardware assets while estimating their energy consumption and emissions.
    • Lifecycle Tracking: Monitor the lifecycle of hardware assets, including their proper disposal at the end of life.
    • Sustainability Metrics: Access a dashboard that consolidates key metrics such as energy consumption, carbon emissions, and e-waste reduction.
    • Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration between IT and sustainability teams to establish goals for energy-saving measures and prepare necessary disclosures.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the integrated capabilities of Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT, organizations can:

    • Effectively monitor emissions and energy consumption across all hardware assets.
    • Make informed decisions regarding asset retirement or repurposing based on sustainability metrics.
    • Enhance reporting and disclosures related to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives.

    Next Steps

    To get started with Sustainable IT, ensure the following plugins are activated:

    • Sustainable IT (snesgsustain)
    • Hardware Asset Management (snhamp)

    Additionally, complete tasks such as filtering and activating metric definitions, creating new data center entities, and configuring Sustainable IT settings to optimize your asset management capabilities.

    The Sustainable IT application enables you to effectively manage and monitor the emissions generated by your hardware assets. Additionally, it enables you to keep track of the energy consumption of your assets and their proper disposal after they reach the end of their lifespan.

    Combined benefits of integrating Hardware Asset Management and ESG Management's Sustainable IT

    Feature Hardware Asset Management ESG Management All applications together

    Hardware asset Inventory Management

    		 Yes No Yes

    Estimate hardware asset energy consumption and emissions

    		 No Yes Yes
    Hardware asset Lifecycle Tracking Yes No Yes
    Report reduction in e-Waste No Yes Yes
    Increase the proportion of Energy Star-certified assets within the portfolio No No Yes
    Track data center energy consumption, carbon, and renewables No Yes Yes
    Monitor PUE, WUE and CUE from each location for targeted improvement No No Yes
    Track all relevant Sustainable IT metrics at a glance No No Yes

    Workflow for using Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT

    Using Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT applications together provides the following benefits:
    • Enables you to effectively manage and monitor the emissions generated by your hardware assets
    • Helps you to keep track of the energy consumption of your assets and their proper disposal after they reach the end of their lifespan.
    • Provides valuable insights through a dashboard, enabling you to make informed decisions on whether to retire or repurpose these assets

    The figure illustrates the collaborative efforts between an IT executive and the Sustainability program manager in collecting data on carbon footprint and e-waste. The ESG program managers establish goals and targets to monitor the efficacy of energy-saving measures and prepare disclosures.

    Figure 1. The Hardware Asset Management and Sustainable IT workflow
    In this workflow:
    1. The IT executive logs in to the Asset Executive Workspace to track and report the IT sustainability performance.
    2. The IT executive then gets the carbon footprint and e-waste generated across different hardware asset categories and tracks the carbon footprint and efficiency metrics for data centers.
    3. The ESG program manager coordinates between Sustainability and IT with a single shared set of data.
    4. The ESG program managers establish goals and targets to monitor the efficacy of energy-saving measures and thus help the ESG reporting and disclosure manager to prepare disclosures.
    5. The ESG reporting and disclosure manager prepares the ESG disclosures.

    Requirements for integrating Hardware Asset Management and ESG Management

    1. Install and activate the Sustainable IT (sn_esg_sustain) plugin.
    2. Install and activate the Hardware Asset Management (sn_hamp) plugin.

    Get started with using Sustainable IT to track your emissions data from your IT assets

    Get started with Sustainable IT by completing these tasks:

    1. Activate the Sustainable IT plugin.
    2. Filter and activate the Sustainable IT metric definitions.
    3. Create new entities for data centers.
    4. Manually set up entities for Sustainable IT data centers.
    5. Configure Sustainable IT.