Computing-tabulating-recording company, International Business Machines (IBM) has launched a Cloud Carbon Calculator to enable South African enterprises track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across cloud services and advance their sustainability performance throughout their hybrid, multicloud journeys.
The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, which will run on an AI-informed dashboard, is aimed at helping clients access emissions data across a variety of IBM Cloud workloads such as AI, high performance computing (HPC) and financial services.
Julia Carvalho, General Manager of IBM Africa Growth Markets, who announced the launch of the platform, said the calculator was necessary with “industries and enterprises embracing modernization by leveraging hybrid cloud and AI to digitally transform with resiliency, performance, security, and compliance at the forefront, all while remaining focused on delivering value and driving more sustainable business practices.”
“To help clients respond to these challenges, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is designed to quickly spot patterns, anomalies and outliers in data that are potentially associated with higher GHG emissions,” said Carvalho.
“As African organizations race to optimize workloads and achieve energy-savings benefits through hybrid, multicloud and AI deployment, it is expedient that we provide access to standards-based greenhouse gas emissions data that will enable them to manage their cloud carbon footprint.
“This is especially important in Africa as we remain vulnerable to climate change and climate variability.
“As such, we are proud to launch the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, an AI-informed dashboard designed to help clients access the data they need to advance their sustainability goals while empowering them to conduct further analysis.
“The way people shop is changing, and we’re committed to helping our customers deliver frictionless online shopping experiences backed by high levels of sustainability”, he stated.