Energy Magazine August 2019 | Page 39

CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ CAPGEMINI CLOUD PLATFORM ( CCP )’ 39 active in the IT space and this represents a massive opportunity when it comes to sustainability . One of the big topics in the IT industry at the moment is of course revolving around migration to the cloud , and cloud computing . “ If you do migration to the cloud correctly and smartly , you can save energy , anywhere between 60 and 70 % of the carbon impact of your IT systems just by migrating from a traditional dedicated server-based view of the world to a smart cloud view . So , again , it ’ s going through this process of recognising
that there ’ s a big opportunity for us to help our clients , and that ’ s the external strand of what we ’ re driving at from a sustainability perspective .”
“ Of all the things we ’ re doing at the moment , I think that client angle is the most exciting . I ’ ve given you a couple of examples . We did another project with a big manufacturing company , helping them to visualise the carbon impact of their global IT estate , with some dashboarding and some visualisation , and again , some of that has really brought to life for their clients just the quantity of
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