FNT Solution for Environmental Sustainability

Data centers and telecom networks are huge power consumers, making them a prime focus of environmental sustainability programs. Improving the operational efficiency of these infrastructures plays a huge role in achieving corporate sustainability goals and can best be achieved with professional IT documentation.

Comprehensive professional documentation is instrumental in reducing a business’ energy consumption and harmful emissions. Complete, high quality IT inventory data helps an organization understand how its operations impact the environment and identify areas to target for improvement. FNT’s solution for Sustainability gives organizations the tools they need to take meaningful action today for a greener tomorrow.

Advantages of FNT’s Sustainability Solution

Remain Compliant with CSR Legislation

Documentation capability ensures the necessary, audit-ready overviews of CO2 footprint data are available for input into financial statements that require reporting on sustainability from 2024 on.

Reduce Energy Consumption

Comprehensive documentation supports monitoring the infrastructure’s power consumption, power networks and utilization. Advanced planning capacity facilitates identifying hotspots and redistributing heat-generating equipment across a data center, allowing room temperature to be raised and cooling capacity lowered.

Reduce Equipment in Service

Find systems and equipment that aren’t performing a useful purpose and shut them down with quality documentation that is recorded across the lifecycle of its components. Capturing this level of information on all installed equipment and managing it across the organization makes it possible to see and act on relationships and dependencies between the different components of the infrastructure.

Reduce OPEX

Lower energy and cooling expenses from minimizing energy consumption and heat generation. Eliminate waste in infrastructure operation by accurately determining capacity needs and limiting resource usage to what’s truly necessary. Reduce placement costs by opting for eco-friendly equipment that has enhanced durability and longer lifespans. Minimize time-consuming troubleshooting and repairs with a well-documented infrastructure.

Retain Access to Financing Sources

Remain eligible for financing from investment funds that require adherence to sustainability standards. Detailed infrastructure eco footprint documentation is essential for the sustainability reporting needed during the application process.

Document Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions

Capture Scope 2 and 3 emissions produced by operating the IT, data center and network infrastructures. An integrated data structure holds ISO compliant environmental profile declarations (EDPs) and uploads them to the device type master data management. Capturing and reporting on CO2 and other eco factors gives real data about your carbon footprint so you can adjust as needed.

Measure and Monitor Progress

Establish monitoring and reporting mechanisms to track progress towards sustainability goals. Use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure environmental performance and identify areas for improvement.

Highlights of FNT’s Sustainability Solution

FNT’s solution for Sustainability provides accurate and complete documentation of all resources in the data center, telecom and IT infrastructure, plus documentation of the hard-to-keep-track- of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions that are produced by operating these infrastructures. This information is stored as a digital twin, which provides a reliable basis for analyzing energy usage, equipment in service and carbon emissions. Coupling the digital twin with analytics surfaces the right information for organizations to make decisions and formulate actions to minimize the impact of operating their infrastructure on the environment.

Integrated, Central Data Model

All infrastructure resource data is documented in a central data repository and linked to the higher layer management and orchestration systems. It includes not just asset data, but also relationships and dependencies between them, and encompasses all technologies and layers, from the building level through physical, logical, and virtual, up to and including applications and services.

Openness and Flexibility

Highly configurable and extendable data model enables the import of data from other systems as well as extensive integration with third-party systems for automated data exchange. An extensive integration framework includes generative open APIs, ETL, Reconciliation and Notification functions, and an API to upload CO2 and all eco impact indicators in EPDs directly from external data sources.

Analytics Dashboard

Facilitates understanding your data with reports and dashboards that assess performance, cost, efficiency of network sites and equipment. A purpose-built pre-defined dashboard configuration displays CO2 totals and declining averages of CO2 and other emissions to track and demonstrate your decarbonization strategies are working.

Graphical Visualization of Data

Analyze, visualize, and evaluate the documented infrastructure data in a variety of ways to better understand correlations, gain new insights and make it possible to quickly and easily identify areas that need attention.

Simple Infrastructure Capture

Contains an integrated and continuously updated component library with more than 75,000 predefined devices from many different vendors, all in photo-realistic representation. This includes all necessary technical data needed to manage and plan the IT landscape.

Powerful Inheritance Feature

Ensures environmental data is only uploaded once for each device type. This data is automatically propagated to every existing instance of that device type, and any new ones that are added to the infrastructure in the future.

Lifecycle Management

Manage physical devices and intangible components such as virtual machines and software installations throughout their entire lifecycle.

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FAQ: Improving Corporate Sustainability

What does it mean to be sustainable?

In broad terms, being sustainable means that a business operates in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations. There are numerous types of sustainability, but economic, environmental, and social sustainability are the most prominent.

 

Environmental sustainability involves minimizing the environmental impact of the corporation's operations, products, and services. This includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing waste generation, conserving natural resources, and adopting environmentally friendly practices such as using renewable energy sources and sustainable materials.

 

Achieving environmental sustainability requires examining and adjusting a corporation's strategies, policies, and operations. Corporations that prioritize environmental sustainability recognize that their long-term success is interconnected with the well-being of the environment and aspire to create value while minimizing negative impacts.

Why is it important to prioritize sustainable business practices?

Prioritizing sustainable business practices is not just a moral imperative, but it’s also a strategic necessity for businesses. Sustainable business practices directly impact:

 

  • Long-term viability, by minimizing risks associated with environmental degradation, resource depletion, and social unrest. Conserving resources and reducing waste helps businesses mitigate operational risks and maintain profitability in the face of changing market dynamics and regulatory requirements.

 

  • Reputation and brand value, as consumers and investors increasingly value sustainability and corporate responsibility. Businesses that prioritize sustainable practices can enhance their reputation, build trust with customers, attract investors, and differentiate themselves in the market. A strong sustainability track record can also lead to increased brand loyalty and market share.

 

  • Cost savings and operational efficiency, since sustainable practices can result in reducing energy consumption and optimizing resource usage, which can lower production costs and improve margins. Investments in energy-efficient technologies and adapting sustainable supply chain practices can yield long-term financial benefits.

 

  • Regulatory compliance, which is increasingly important as governments around the world are implementing regulations and policies aimed at addressing environmental challenges such as climate change and pollution. Businesses that comply with regulations reduce the risk of fines, legal liabilities, and reputational damage and also remain eligible for government incentive programs and capital markets reserved for companies that can demonstrate they meet the requirements.

Further Downloads

Whitepaper
The Sustainable Infrastructure
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Actions data center and network operators can take today for a more environmental-friendly tomorrow Businesses concerned about sustainability are taking stock of their current situation, identifying areas to target for improvement, and formulating plans for how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are many strategies that can be used, and not all of them are obvious. This paper is an enlightening look at a number of different actions businesses can take to minimize the impact they are having on the environment.
Expertpaper
The Path to Sustainability in IT Infrastructure
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Expertpaper
The Path to Sustainability and Carbon Neutrality in DCIM
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Expertpaper
The Path to Sustainability in Telco Instrastructure
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Intense pressure is being put on organizations to operate in a more sustainable manner by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. They must also demonstrate their progress by complying with stringent reporting requirements. Our new expert paper details how companies can tackle decarbonization through better infrastructure management, and how FNT's new solution helps by documenting, analyzing and reporting on the carbon emissions of your customer's infrastructure.
Brochure
FNT Sustainability
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The FNT Sustainability extends the FNT Command platform to document and analyze greenhouse gas emissions in IT, data center and network infrastructures, supports compliance with sustainability regulations and helps to reduce the carbon footprint.
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