The ITAM Executive: A Podcast for IT Asset Management Professionals · Anglepoint

Sustainability at the Core: ITAM's Role in Green IT Initiatives

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Ron says 75% of server power use comes from software workloads, not hardware or the operating system.

1. The ITAM Executive episode focuses on green IT initiatives and environmental sustainability in IT asset management. 2. Chris Johnson, Anglepoint’s Chief Product Officer, speaks with Ron Brill, Anglepoint’s President and Chairman and the Convener of ISO 19770 Working Group 21. 3. The episode asks how ITAM can help organizations measure carbon, report it, and reduce it across hardware, software, cloud, and storage. 4. Ron says the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD, requires carbon data to be collected starting January 1, 2024 for 2025 reporting. 5. He says board directors, CEOs, and CFOs must sign financial statements that include carbon reporting, and many IT groups are not ready. 6. Ron contrasts Europe’s regulatory push with the US “wait and see” approach around the SEC’s proposed filing-rule changes. 7. He compares a possible US rollout to Sarbanes-Oxley in the early 2000s, when IT control objectives and IT control testing changed quickly. 8. Ron and Chris describe a visual that Anglepoint created to translate greenhouse gas protocols into an IT context. 9. They discuss scope one, scope two, and scope three emissions, and Ron says IT is mostly scope two power use plus scope three cloud emissions. 10. The conversation also covers how cloud provider costs should be categorized across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. 11. Ron says the industry lacks good data and that many organizations do not have an IT function capable of generating complete carbon reports. 12. He says the Greenhouse Gas Protocol is the most common framework and that many practitioners need help mapping it to IT assets. 13. Ron says moving workloads from on-premises data centers to cloud providers can be inherently greener because of scale and utilization. 14. He gives a comparison where data-center servers average about 40% utilization, while cloud reserved instances and spot instances push usage much higher. 15. Ron says cloud providers can also use more efficient cooling and place data centers near renewable energy sources. 16. He says the Green Software Foundation’s Software Carbon Intensity, or SCI, model is an emerging way to score software for carbon impact. 17. Ron says storage matters too, and that deleting old emails, files, and duplicates can reduce both storage size and carbon use. 18. The episode has a practical interview style, with Chris Johnson prompting examples and Ron answering with standards, tools, and implementation details. 19. ITAM leaders, SAM practitioners, and CIO-adjacent teams focused on sustainability would get the most value from this conversation. 20. Listeners seeking a pure product review or a non-technical business story may skip it.

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A practical case for bringing sustainability into ITAM operations.

Green IT is treated here as a day-to-day operational problem, not a slogan. The discussion links sustainability pressure from employees, customers, business partners, and regulators to the work ITAM teams actually do, and the laptop-versus-server comparison gives that point some…

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