Italian energy firm Snam minimises e-waste with HPE Asset Upcycling services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that Italian natural gas operator Snam has selected HPE Asset Upcycling services to support its environmental aims. It will use HPE Asset Upcycling to modernise and refresh its hardware, refurbishing its end-of-use technology so it can be reused wherever possible.

With HPE Asset Upcycling Services, Snam can refurbish everything from storage to servers, and from multiple brands. Snam’s decision aligns with the company’s ambitious sustainability targets, including achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

“Snam is committed to reaching significant milestones in reducing its industrial footprint by improving the sustainability of our business operations,” said Snam Cloud and Datacentre Infrastructure Manager Marco Vezzini.

“Working with HPE helps us accelerate our efforts in neutralising our environmental impact and the HPE Circular Economy report gives us complete visibility into the reuse and recycle details for the products we send back, allowing us to track our carbon emission avoidance.”

Securing data whilst upcycling

HPE assures its refurbishment process is secure and meets “stringent data protection policies”.

“HPE fully understands the importance of protecting and securing data throughout its lifecycle including the secure disposal of technology and data at the end-of-life,” said HPE Italy President and Managing Director Claudio Bassoli.

HPE added that its asset upcycling service is part of the company’s solution to help customers modernise multi-generational IT technologies while extending the life of legacy systems.

“Helping customers refurbish and reuse technology instead of sending assets to the landfill is not only environmentally sensible but also economically advantageous and can create investment opportunities for new projects,” Bassoli said.

Record-breaking HPE ProLiant servers

In other HPE news, the technology giant boasted its HPE ProLiant servers using AMD EPYC CPUs have achieved 48 world records to date with the recently expanded HPE ProLiant Gen11 server portfolio.

“The latest HPE ProLiant servers, using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors, deliver up to 35% higher performance and 25% better energy efficiency, compared to previous models, and achieved 30 world records, surpassing competitors in energy efficiency, and performance across enterprise workloads in data management, java, and virtualization,” HPE touted.

The company added that its HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server using AMD EPYC 8004 processors also achieved five new world records and energy efficiency.

The “world records” are based on results published by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, a not-for-profit consortium that establishes, maintains and endorses standardised benchmarks and tools to evaluate performance for the newest generation of computing systems.