Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. has been working with its customers for a number of years to deploy sustainable IT solutions and create a more efficient environmental footprint.

Much of HPE’s work with its customers in sustainability is being driven by an increased focus on finding effective IT solutions.

“Our customers have these really ambitious sustainability goals, and what we’re seeing is those requirements are starting to trickle down to the IT organizations,” said Monica Batchelder (pictured, right), chief sustainability officer of HPE. “The gaps they have is they often don’t have the expertise and the skills in their organizations to develop and deliver on those strategies, and they don’t have the data and the solutions to actually take action and remove their emissions. We’re offering them a breadth of different opportunities from data and visibility through to our expertise with our consulting services.”

Batchelder spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Lisa Martin and Dave Vellante at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. She was joined by John Frey (left), chief technologist of sustainable transformation at HPE, and they discussed HPE’s work with customers to create more environmentally efficient organizations. (* Disclosure below.)

Key areas of focus

HPE helps organizations focus on five key sustainability areas, according to Frey. These include equipment, energy, resource and data efficiencies, along with realizing efficiency in the organizational use of software.

“When we work with customers, we help them think about a variety of ways to optimize,” Frey said. “Software efficiency … is look at your workloads, make sure the code is most efficient, the programming language is most efficient, the workload is designed to run on the hardware.”

Along with its work with customers to realize environmental efficiencies in a range of business areas, HPE has also set its own sustainability goals. Last year, the company announced an acceleration of its net-zero climate goals from 2050 to 2040, while working toward sourcing 100% renewable electricity.

“In the last two years, we’ve reduced our own operational emissions by more than 20%. And we’ve exceeded our target three years ahead of schedule to source 50% renewable energy,” Batchelder said. “The only way HPE can make progress towards our own goals is to partner across the entire value chain. We’re making a lot of progress in our own direct operations, but there’s a lot more we need to do upstream and downstream.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE and Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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