Sustainability

Architecting sustainability in storage area networks

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Architecting sustainability in storage area networks

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, networking equipment and secure operations have become essential to nearly every aspect of business and daily life. This is even truer for storage networking since data access is vital to applications, including the Artificial Intelligence (AI) realm. As reliance on networking infrastructure grows, so does the need to advance sustainability in business practices and technologies. With the intent of progressing toward a more sustainable future, organizations can benefit from designing…

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Sustainability 101: What is e-waste?

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Sustainability 101: What is e-waste?

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. We’ve all been there: you have an electronic product that is no longer working, like…

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Cleaner air, healthier buildings: How Carbon Reform is modernizing indoor environments for health and efficiency

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Cleaner air, healthier buildings: How Carbon Reform is modernizing indoor environments for health and efficiency

As climate change accelerates, the need to make buildings more sustainable, energy-efficient, and healthier has never been clearer. While many climate tech solutions focus on reducing outdoor emissions, there’s a growing recognition that indoor air quality is also a growing issue. Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors, where pollutants like CO₂ and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can accumulate, making indoor air up to five times more polluted than outdoor air. Poor indoor air…

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Driving social impact at work: A rewarding collaboration with WWF-Australia

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Driving social impact at work: A rewarding collaboration with WWF-Australia

Ever wonder how you can champion a cause you believe in at work? I sat down with a leader in the Asia, Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC) region to learn about how she harnessed her roles within Cisco—both in the Cisco Customer Experience team and as a core team volunteer with the Cisco Green Team Network Inclusive Community, one of Cisco’s employee resource groups (ERGs), dedicated to connecting Cisco employees for social and environmental actions….

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Award-winning Cisco Sustainability Data Foundation takes the stage as key to sustainability success

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Award-winning Cisco Sustainability Data Foundation takes the stage as key to sustainability success

Colin Seward and Sneha Balasubramanian from Cisco’s Chief Sustainability Office accept the award from SustainableIT.org Cisco’s ability to advance ambitious environmental sustainability goals comes from leadership and our next generation environmental sustainability strategy: the “Plan for Possible” — a strategy that defines our key priorities to connect a regenerative future. Importantly, making progress toward these goals requires data and technology — specifically, our Sustainability Data Foundation (SDF). Cisco’s focus on data-driven environmental sustainability contributed to…

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Financing regenerative agriculture: a pathway to healthier soil, cleaner water, and climate resilience

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Financing regenerative agriculture: a pathway to healthier soil, cleaner water, and climate resilience

Meet four Cisco Foundation partners working to support farmers’ transition to regenerative practices to improve resiliency and mitigate the climate crisis. As the world faces the impacts of climate change, such as soil degradation, biodiversity die-off, and water pollution, regenerative agriculture has emerged as a pathway to restore our relationship with the earth and the food it provides us. Regenerative agriculture practices like cover cropping, no-till farming, and crop rotation help restore organic matter in…

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Harnessing Technology for Conservation: An Interview with the Executive Director of Connected Conservation Foundation

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Harnessing Technology for Conservation: An Interview with the Executive Director of Connected Conservation Foundation

In a recent interview, Sophie Maxwell, the executive director of the Connected Conservation Foundation, shared insights into the organization’s mission, the role of technology in conservation, and the positive impacts they’ve made. Here’s a deep dive into the conversation. Q: Can you give us a quick overview of the Connected Conservation Foundation? A: Connected Conservation is a nonprofit organization, helping those in developing countries secure landscape-scale technologies urgently needed to stop nature loss and build…

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Three years of progress on the pathway to net zero

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Three years of progress on the pathway to net zero

Climate change is both an urgent issue needing immediate action and a topic that requires long-term planning for positive transformation. Balancing these two horizons can be a challenge and key to making progress is defining a north star. Three years ago, Cisco announced its north star: a goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our value chain by 2040, and in 2022 that goal was approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)….

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More Sustainable Mining with Cisco

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More Sustainable Mining with Cisco

Mining companies are increasingly adopting more sustainable mining practices and embracing advanced technologies that are actively contributing to the global sustainability agenda. Digital Transformation Digital transformation through intelligent infrastructure that improves visibility and standardization across sectors will increase mining companies’ ability to achieve sustainability goals and peak operational effectiveness. Multiple global mining companies are targeting a 30 – 50% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, and integrating sustainable practices through digital transformation will…

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Benefits of a More Sustainable Learning Environment in Schools and Universities

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Benefits of a More Sustainable Learning Environment in Schools and Universities

In recent years, we have partnered with schools and universities to transform their physical environments into healthier, more sustainable, safer places for learning and work. This blog shares our conclusions and recommendations for adopting IoT and networking technologies to create a more sustainable learning environment in educational institutions. The need for sustainability in schools and universities Schools and universities worldwide occupy vast areas with significant environmental footprints, impacting energy, carbon, farmland, forests, soil, and freshwater…

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