Product Energy Efficiency Is Good for Business

The explosion of digital data, along with the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications, has created exciting opportunities for businesses in nearly every sector. At the same time, there is growing awareness of the high energy consumption of these technologies, prompting businesses to search for ways to lower energy consumption and related costs.

The rising cost of energy, along with environmental awareness, brings greater attention to digital technologies. Many technology partners are examining how their solutions can play a vital role in contributing to energy efficiency objectives and supporting sustainability goals.

NETSCOUT solutions are instrumental in assuring the performance of mission-critical networks and applications. As a technology innovator, NETSCOUT is at the leading edge of digital transformation initiatives taking place across nearly every industry around the world. Digital systems still have an environmental footprint—although it may be hidden in the supply chain in the form of material manufacture and electricity consumption. NETSCOUT has a deep understanding that small changes in design can yield important savings in terms of reduced energy consumption.

Sustainability by Design

Consumption of electricity is a key consideration when it comes to digital technology. The sustainability of solutions, even those that are software-based, depends on the source and quantity of energy used by those technologies. Because control of electricity sources (renewable or fossil fuel–based) lies with customers, NETSCOUT focuses on the energy efficiency of its products. This sustainability-by-design approach enables all customers to reduce their environmental footprint, adding up to cost savings while also supporting sustainability objectives.

NETSCOUT has made significant strides in reducing the amount of energy consumed by its workhorse InfiniStream solution. Via an architectural change, NETSCOUT dramatically decreased InfiniStream energy usage. For customers participating in a pilot study, this recent InfiniStream upgrade resulted in a 23 percent average reduction in electricity consumption, with no trade-off in optimized performance.

NETSCOUT is continuing to examine all of its products with an eye toward integrating greater sustainability into the design.

Partnering for Sustainability Success

Redefining the digital world’s relationship with energy consumption requires a broad vision.  Enterprises need the help and commitment of business partners and vendors to contribute to these efforts. NETSCOUT has embraced this approach, engaging with customers to gain invaluable feedback on platform performance, energy use, and thermal conditions, which are then used to inform future solution enhancements. These insights enable NETSCOUT’s engineers to validate software design changes while encouraging further collaboration on sustainability initiatives.

NETSCOUT is dedicated to helping customers optimize performance per watt. This involves issuing new software releases for products that provide real power reduction, without sacrificing performance, allowing customers to realize significant cost savings.

NETSCOUT remains firmly committed to reducing environmental impacts by decreasing network downtime from service or security issues, minimizing energy wasted on components that are not producing useful work, eliminating the need for excess hardware, and via the efficiency of the solutions themselves. As a result, enterprises have an important ally helping them to drive down energy costs, which is good news for any business.

    
Learn more about how NETSCOUT is supporting enterprise sustainability initiatives and read the FY2024 ESG Report.