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Device42, a startup that helps companies manage hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of customer hardware and software usage data. The company used that ability to analyze carbon emissions by system component.
“Our platform discovers IT infrastructure from mainframe to cloud and everything in between. “That includes the physical layer all the way to the application and everything in between, including operating systems, software services, even resource utilization data to help companies with right sizing,” company co-founder and CEO Raj Jalan told TechCrunch.
The company decided to use that in-depth knowledge to give customers insight into the sustainability of the tooling they are using. He says his company’s approach differs from the competition because they look at data center power consumption, power, utilization, and power efficiency, then generate a carbon emissions or sustainability dashboard focused on data center power consumption.
Since our focus has been marrying application data to infrastructure, we can now tie your application to sustainability and your carbon footprint, which is unique about what we are releasing,” Jalan said.
He said this can affect board-level sustainability discussions. “Instead of talking about how much your data center and energy cost you, you can now start to think about what your carbon footprint looks like on an application level,” he said.
Device42 had to build the capability to understand this type of information at this level, even though this is a natural extension of its previous work. The platform gets AI-enhanced data.
“And this was taking all of the data we have in this discovered data, the enriched data, and now transforming that into a calculation around your sustainability, your carbon footprint, and then tying it back to your application,” he said.
Jalan says the new tool is free for customers.
Crunchbase reports over $38 million raised by the 2010 startup. Its 2019 Series A raised $34 million.
