Member - Sopht

Sopht is a 360° GreenOps platform helping IT organizations measure, pilot and reduce their environmental footprint. We demonstrate the convergence between driving an IT decarbonation journey and optimizing the cost related to IT operations. We are developing a catalog of APIs helping us to dynamically collect data from all existing (and already deployed) monitoring solutions: VMWare, VSphere, InTune, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, Azure, AWS, etc. We normalize the data from a methodology standpoint (fully transparent and adaptable for our clients) and display it either into our digital cockpit or send it through APIs into our Clients ESG datalake. Our GreenOps platform relies on 3 main modules offering several use-cases and levers to reduce environmental footprint: 1. Multi-Cloud rationalization > capacity to compare all key Cloud Service Providers (Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP, etc.) environmental footprint at service and VM level (we do not rely on CSPs carbon footprint simulator, we directly collect “Cost & Usage” reports and we normalize the data between CSPs). In 2021, 6.5 million tons of CO2 eq. were wasted into Data storage that were unused or with no more value (source Bureau Veritas) and more than $17Bn were wasted into cloud spendings (source LotaCloud). 2. Back to Front digital services optimization > capacity to measure and pilot the environmental footprint of digital services (applications) running on Client’s infra (on premise, private cloud, hybrid). We can also measure specific customer journeys on a given application. This helps the organization to better reconcile 2 worlds: the word of DevOps/Infra and the world of Product Owners. In normal application usage, it is only 10% to 20% of total functionalities that are used by end-users (source GreenIT.fr) and this explains why we often see our clients using their VMs resources at less than 10% capacity. 3. IT asset efficiency > A big chunk of IT environmental footprint comes from all devices (laptop, desktop, smartphone) that are deployed and used within an organization. The question then becomes, do we have the right IT asset allocation for the right people usage and with the right set of applications installed? Do we rotate or proactively maintain the equipment fleet based on observed usage and carbon amortization? Gartner published a study stating that for 1000€ spent on a device it actually costs 3000€ in maintenance and IT support. When we know that hardware represents globally around 50% of total IT CO2 emissions, it is more than needed to better monitor the usage and allocation of those devices.