Sustainability

Our vendors can support your customer's green initiatives and help them meet their sustainability targets.

Did you know 53.6 million metric tonnes of electronic waste were generated worldwide in 2019? As the world moves towards hybrid working, it’s easy to assume we are becoming more sustainable, but there are many elements of a business that can be improved. The impact we have on the environment doesn’t solely come from inside offices, it’s impacted by the commute, leaving technology turned on unnecessarily, not recycling correctly, and more. These actions can happen at the office and at home, so how can you encourage your customers to become more sustainable?

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How has sustainability impacted businesses?

For a long time, businesses have mainly focused on profit and reputation, but now they are looking for ways to make their business more sustainable. Among the many reasons why, is the younger workforce understands why sustainability is such an important topic and focus in their lives, the result of this being they won’t work for companies who are not looking to improve. Not only this, but investors now take into consideration what impact businesses have, to ensure there is not only economic profit, but also a positive social impact, focusing on health, safety and wellness.

In addition, businesses can save money by making conscious decisions. Even the smallest change to your customers’ working day can bring long-term benefits, such as turning off equipment that isn’t being used, reducing plastic consumption, and cutting down on commutes to help reduce emissions. Further, businesses should encourage their employees to follow suit at home. Switching to clean energy, reducing plastic waste. It is important that the actions the company are taking to become more sustainable are transparent.

Sustainability Hints and Tips

We know it can seem overwhelming when you research how you can become more sustainable, so we’ve put together some hints and tips for your customers and their team.

Reduce Emissions

Each commute to the office releases emissions. Why not look into car-sharing, use public transportation, or introduce hybrid working?

Save Money with Small Changes

When the office is open, your customers will likely have coffee machines, fridges, air conditioning/heating switched on. But is this needed if there is only a small team in the office? Turning these off, even just for certain areas of the office, or asking the team to work remotely saves your customers money and helps the planet.

Wear Extra Layers

When individuals are working from home, instead of turning on or up the heating, they can put on an extra layer of clothing.

Reduce Plastic Consumption

Reduce plastic consumption in the office and at home! Milkmen are making a comeback, so why not change supplier? Do you have lunch shops that don’t use plastic packaging close to the office? Encourage employees to go there rather than buying another meal deal at the next supermarket.

Turn off Appliances

We’re all guilty of it, but if you’re not using something, turn it off. Whether this is lights, a computer, or a printer.

Don't Throw Away Old Devices

Do you have old devices you no longer use? Instead of throwing them away, donate or reuse them once they’ve been through data sanitisation.

Renewable Energy

Switch to renewable energy. Renewable energy tariffs are becoming more competitive and can sometimes even be cheaper. Check out price comparison sites to find the best option for you.

Hints&Tips

A Cuppa with Climb: Device Erasure over Device Destroying

In the latest installment of A Cuppa with Climb, our host, Hope Smyth, enjoyed a cuppa with Blancco's Vice President, Fredrik Forslund, to discuss how companies can maintain compliance, without destroying perfectly good machines and devices. How? By using Blancco's industry-leading, completely secure data erasure solutions which, in turn, save businesses time and money.

A Cuppa with Climb: Device Erasure over Device Destroying

In the latest installment of A Cuppa with Climb, our host, Hope Smyth, enjoyed a cuppa with Blancco's Vice President, Fredrik Forslund, to discuss how companies can maintain compliance, without destroying perfectly good machines and devices. How? By using Blancco's industry-leading, completely secure data erasure solutions which, in turn, save businesses time and money.

Sustainability Solutions from our Vendors

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StorageMAP

StorageMAP helps businesses meet CO2 reduction targets. End users have the ability to visualise which of their storage is taking up the most energy, powered by renewables versus other sources, and move data to more cost-effective storage options or delete any ROT data.

Datadobi

Datadobi, the global leader in unstructured data management software, brings order to heterogeneous unstructured storage environments in the cloud and the data centre so that the enterprise can realize the value of their expanding universe of data. Its software allows customers to migrate and protect data while discovering insights and putting them to work for their business. Datadobi takes the pain and risk out of unstructured data management and does it faster and more reliably than any other solution at the best economic cost point.

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Go paperless! Need to sign a document that has been sent to you in PDF format? No need to do this the hard way, with ABBYY FineReader PDF your customers can save time and money by completing this task using only their computer. No more printing documents and throwing them away shortly after, this keeps the task simple and sustainable.

ABBYY

ABBYY is a global leader in Content IQ – a new class of technologies that helps the digital workforce to understand and interpret enterprise content.

Their offering enables the digital workforce with the necessary skills and understanding to make intelligent business decisions. Solutions such as FineReader PDF 15, FineReader Server and FineReader Pro help your customers to optimise business processes, reduce risk, accelerate decision-making and increase revenue.

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Blancco solutions encourage your customers to focus on erasing and reusing assets instead of physically destroying them. Using data erasure means your customers will be compliant with all privacy requirements and they can choose to donate or reuse the device, saving them money and helping them become more sustainable.

Blancco

Blancco data erasure software provides thousands of organisations the tools they need to enable sustainable data sanitisation processes across the widest array of IT assets. By focusing on erasing and reusing assets instead of physically destroying them, organisations can improve their security posture and address corporate social responsibility requirements, while also ensuring compliance with local and global data privacy requirements.

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If you have customers struggling with a slow server or hard drive, why not recommend Condusiv DymaxIO? Instead of throwing away their current devices due to slowing down systems, they can use this solution to improve their system performance and have them run at peak speed. This minimises the number of systems thrown away unnecessarily and saves your customers money as they don’t need to buy new hardware.

Condusiv

Condusiv’s software is designed for virtual, cloud, and physical server environments, enabling systems to process more data in less time for faster application performance. With over 100 million licenses sold, Condusiv solutions are used by 90% of the Fortune 1000 and almost three-quarters of the Forbes Global 100 to increase business productivity and reduce costs while extending the life of existing hardware.

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Cloud solutions reduce your customers’ energy bills as they no longer run the servers on-premises. The cloud allows your customers to have all their work in one place, making it easily accessible. ManageEngine has solutions to support multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Cloud Security Plus combats the security concerns your customers may have, by giving complete visibility into both your AWS and Azure cloud infrastructures.

ManageEngine

ManageEngine simplifies IT management with software solutions that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and easy on your budget – no costly consulting fees or over-priced licences. Offering simple, easy-to-use IT Management products at a price that every business can afford. It is thoughtfully built with SMBs in mind and eventually scales for large businesses.

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Microsoft Teams is a platform that has been keeping businesses connected over the last few years. Teams has an abundance of features, such as video calling, file sharing, and project management. Your customers can continue to work remotely, uninterrupted, with all the files easily accessible in one place. This means they won’t need to travel to the office for one meeting or print documents to share.

Microsoft

Microsoft’s platforms and tools cover a whole range of solutions for organisations of all sizes. Whether your customers are looking for a secure and reliable cloud platform, or business tools to enable employees to work how they want, where and when they want – Microsoft has it all.

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Prior to the pandemic, we were used to writing everything down and sharing ideas at our desks. Since then, we have had to find new ways to continue this collaboration and communication. TechSmith’s Snagit, allows you to capture images, edit, and annotate them before sharing them. It also allows you to create videos, making it easier to communicate ideas and tasks. Instead of printing numerous documents to share with colleagues, use this digital solution and cut down unnecessary waste and speed up tasks.

TechSmith

TechSmith is the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording software providing visual communication solutions for businesses and learning environments. These solutions allow anyone to create custom, reusable images and videos and share information that can’t be put into words.

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Quest offers solutions that can migrate your customer from on-premises to a hybrid environment or the cloud with minimal cost, risk, and downtime. Your customers can also benefit from cloud managed endpoint protection so they can easily manage, secure and service all their devices from the cloud.

Quest

Quest creates software solutions that make the benefits of new technology real in an increasingly complex IT landscape. From database and systems management to Active Directory and Office 365 management, and cyber security resilience, Quest helps customers solve their next IT challenge now. Quest Software - where next meets now.

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RealVNC allows your customers to work remotely, whilst being able to connect with people and devices. Your customers can continue collaborating, training, project managing, and more, without needing to make the commute unnecessarily. Using this solution means your customers can have their staff working from home, cutting down the cost of the bills in the office without impacting their productivity.

RealVNC

RealVNC products and services connect people and devices wherever they are, for control, support, administration, monitoring, training, collaboration and more. Save your customers time and money, increase efficiency, reduce risk and create new business opportunities. VNC® Connect covers every remote access use case with a single subscription. No need to buy, deploy, manage and secure separate products or modules.

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