Cloud Sustainability
Cloud Sustainability is a central initiative to our ‘Cutting Downstream Emissions’ ambition which aims to support our clients' own sustainability and ESG journeys by providing accurate and specific emissions data for their cloud solutions.
Cloud Sustainability provides our clients with the carbon footprint of each cloud solution and application service, enabling them to reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
Similar to FinOps, Cloud Sustainability aims to reduce the environmental impact of digital technologies and operations. While FinOps enables clients to manage their software and cloud spend, Cloud Sustainability takes a broader approach by considering the environmental impact of software development and operations. Both FinOps and Cloud Sustainability aim to optimise the use of resources to reduce waste and increase efficiency. While FinOps focuses on cloud resource optimisation, Cloud Sustainability looks at resource optimisation across the entire software development and operations lifecycle.
Cloud Sustainability emphasises the use of energy-efficient technologies and practices in software development and operations. Not only does it demonstrate our deep-rooted commitment but it sets a benchmark within our market for how downstream emissions can be reduced. With extensive resources at our disposal, we are making a significant contribution to our market sector. Cloud Sustainability demonstrates SoftwareOne’s commitment to supporting our customers in achieving their own ESG goals.
At SoftwareOne we intend to implement Cloud Sustainability for our own purposes, by using the data provided by publishers to help calculate more accurate data on our own carbon footprint.