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Empowering the sustainable infrastructure with data observability

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When it comes to data usage, you can’t measure what you can’t see. For companies with sustainability goals and net-zero dates penciled in on calendars, effective management of data becomes a critical concern. How can IT teams optimize data usage and reduce waste, when they don’t have full visibility into all the moving parts of their data storage environments in one place? It takes effort to gather sustainability metrics and act to reduce emissions and decrease your organization’s overall carbon footprint.  

Enter data observability

By giving a crystal-clear view of the entire data lifecycle, data observability empowers organizations to instantly detect anomalies, errors, and bottlenecks. Real-time insights into data processing and storage system performance make it easy to pinpoint improvement areas and reallocate resources intelligently. 

Unified data storage from NetApp provides operational visibility and efficiency that help reduce your carbon footprint and lower costs. With data observability, you can access sustainability metrics across your entire data estate no matter where those 1s and 0s live—whether that’s on premises, in public clouds, or in any hybrid configuration in between. And those valuable insights help you continually optimize to protect profits and the future of our planet.  

Behind the scenes of sustainable infrastructure

Gain complete data observability across hybrid cloud with NetApp® Cloud Insights.

  • Identify power-hungry workloads and quickly shift them to more power-efficient platforms. 
  • Get full visibility and reporting of compute, storage, and network use for nearly all major vendors. 
  • Interpret the intelligence and pivot as needed to reduce costs, waste, and overall emissions. 

Take full command of sustainability metrics with the NetApp BlueXP™ sustainability dashboard. 

  • To meet sustainability goals, IT teams can capture their fact-based sustainability score. 
  • The dashboard goes beyond current consumption readouts. It offers actionable insights, guided remediation, and intuitive wizards for tiering inactive data, enabling you to keep your primary storage optimized and do more with what you have. 
  • Because sustainability is a team effort, the AIOps capabilities built into BlueXP deliver intelligent insights with recommended actions to further improve sustainability. 
  • Sustainability is in the details. NetApp goes deep on information for all associated data environments so that nothing is overlooked. 

Minimize environmental impact with carbon footprint reporting from NetApp storage systems. 

  • Regularly evaluate storage capacity to identify underutilized data and tier infrequently accessed data to lower-cost object storage.
  • Science-based sustainability metrics provide actionable insights. 
  • Fact-based power consumption details from NetApp arrays allow teams to keep a tight rein on data usage for optimal performance and environmental impact. 

Leading by example

At NetApp, we don’t just talk about sustainability; we’re acting on it for our customers and for our own organization. Embracing sustainable technology like NetApp BlueXP enables organizations to achieve sustainability goals by striking the right balance between data performance and efficiency. Sustainable technology from NetApp can help you get there. To learn more, visit our sustainable technology page

Charles Hayes

Charles Hayes is a Product Marketing Manager focusing on hybrid cloud solutions. He’s a 20-year veteran of the storage industry, joining NetApp in September 2019. Before NetApp he spent years defining, developing, and marketing products and solutions for SimpleTech, Iomega, EMC and Lenovo. Charles is also a mediocre percussionist/guitarist, an old-school punk rock fan, and frequently claims he saw all the cool bands before they were cool.

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