Aiven Achieves Sustainability Goals with Thoughtworks
April 04 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Reflecting the open source spirit, Thoughtworks and cloud
data platform provider Aiven share the results of their
collaboration
Thoughtworks (NASDAQ: TWKS), a global technology consultancy
that integrates strategy, design and engineering, and the Finnish
open source data platform company Aiven are tackling the challenge
of lowering the CO2 emissions of the IT industry. Together, they
conducted an internal sustainability assessment for Aiven and are
helping Aiven customers manage their environmental impact, all in
strong support of open-source.
For many companies, as well as their suppliers, the transparent
use of resources is no longer just a voluntary commitment. For
example, the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Directive (CSRD) stipulates the disclosure of sustainability
indicators. Aiven collaborated with Thoughtworks to fulfill this
transparency obligation as efficiently as possible by helping its
customers to visualize and manage their cloud emissions. As a
founding member of the non-profit Green Software Foundation,
Thoughtworks brings deep expertise in building robust ecosystems
for sustainable software development. One important achievement was
developing the open source solution Cloud Carbon Footprint, a tool
Thoughtworks designed to calculate CO2 emissions.
Heikki Nousiainen, Co-Founder and CTO at Aiven, said: "Being
able to act at speed and utilize the power of our own data are
prerequisites for our customers' success. We are able to provide
them with the tools to do this sustainably with our partner
Thoughtworks. Open source code enables developers around the world
to continuously optimize and further develop existing
solutions."
Thoughtworks utilized the expertise gained to validate Aiven's
approach for measuring and calculating the emissions of cloud
assets. Based on this assessment, the technology consultancy then
provided recommendations for further development. This included
identifying opportunities to fine tune Aiven's approach with those
of major cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services,
and Google Cloud Platform. Together, they worked out the
definitions of methods and parameters for calculating emissions. In
cooperation with Aiven, Thoughtworks laid the foundation for the
company and its customers to achieve their strategic climate
targets.
Driven by their shared commitment to open source principles,
both Aiven and Thoughtworks openly publish their findings from the
Cloud Carbon Footprint project. This transparency allows everyone
to benefit from their work and contribute to improving the
methodology. This further increases its robustness, credibility and
transparency.
Thanks to this collaboration, Aiven and its customers can:
- Calculate granular cloud emissions and energy consumption of
Aiven services at the project level
- Access emissions data directly through the Aiven Console or via
API integration in a timely manner
- Visualize the environmental impact of the various cloud
infrastructure solutions offered and compare changes over time
Lisa McNally, Global Head of Sustainability at Thoughtworks and
Co-chair of the Policy Working Group at the Green Software
Foundation, explains: "Both Aiven and Thoughtworks share a
strategic focus on open source to achieve the greatest possible
impact for the public good. This is particularly important in the
context of sustainability. We're proud that this project
contributes to a more sustainable economy."
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About Aiven
Aiven is a global, open source data and AI platform company,
helping organizations gain more value from their data. Aiven’s
cloud platform combines open source services to stream, store, and
serve data, simply, securely, and rapidly on any cloud. Aiven is
trusted by thousands of start-up and enterprise customers to create
next-gen applications like AI/ML confidently and quickly. Aiven is
fully committed to the open source community and helping
organizations revolutionize the performance, scalability, and
resiliency of their cloud data infrastructure, and streamline the
work of technical teams to lower costs. Headquartered in Helsinki
with offices globally, Aiven is backed by private and institutional
investors.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates
strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. We
are over 10,500 people strong across 48 offices in 19 countries.
For 30 years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with
our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with
technology as the differentiator.
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Aiven Email: florian.engel@aiven.io Kathrin Jansing, head of public
relations Europe, Thoughtworks Email:
kathrin.jansing@thoughtworks.com
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