Smith - who is responsible for the channel strategy and GTM for Chrome OS in EMEA - joins a judging panel that already includes top executives from HP, Softcat, Tech Data, Computacenter and Jigsaw24, as well as England rugby ace-turned sustainability champion Andy Gomarsall and Support the Goals founder Colin Curtis.
Quickfire Q&A with Sylvaine Smith:
Why did you agree to become a CRN Tech Impact judge?
Whether it be economic, environmental or social, sustainability is such a critical topic today and it s becoming a real urgency. I agreed to be a CRN Tech Impact judge because sustainability represents one of my core personal values and I want to contribute to spreading the word and sharing best practice amongst our industry. The current situation is terrible and we all need to act on it. Every little step a business or an individual can make is part of a journey.
This week it inked a distribution deal with Ingram Micro.
Although government departments work with IT asset disposal firms (ITADs) to recycle end-of-life laptops, they are almost always buying brand-new devices to replace them, Circular Computing said, pointing to its FoI.
It claimed the government has yet to take meaningful action on its emissions associated with IT procurement, despite recently bringing forward its emissions reductions targets by 15 years (it is now aiming to cut 2035 Co2 emissions by 78 per cent compared with 1990 levels).
Extrapolating from the FoI figures, the Portsmouth-based firm claimed the UK government could slash carbon emissions by 196,502 tonnes between now and 2035 by purchasing remanufactured laptops instead of brand new devices over the next 14 years.
Cisco is inviting its employees, customers and partners to pitch ideas on how it can drive sustainable growth, and has pledged to turn the best proposals into products,.
Launched in 1992, TCO Certified has traditionally focused on office IT products including PCs, displays and projectors, but last year expanded its focus into the datacentre.
Its mission is to make IT hardware more sustainable than it is today, with CEO Soren Enholm sharing his concerns with
CRNlast year that the IT market had become almost partly a fashion market .
TCO Certified s Product Finder reveals that HPE s ProLiant XL170r Gen10 and HPE ProLiant XL225n Gen10 Plus models are the first two servers to meet the tough criteria in TCO Certified for datacentre products. We expect more brands to follow, he said.