Ecodesign for Servers & Storage with Davide Polverini of the European Commission

Ecodesign provides EU-wide rules for improving the environmental performance of products, both business as consumer.

Discussion topics

  • Introduction of Davide and Ecodesign in General
  • Datacenter products roadmap
  • Developments in Circular Economy and Sustainability
  • Ecodesign opening the market for Independent service providers
  • Data deletion tool requirement: preventing destruction of disks
  • Current status
  • Improved reparability of systems
  • Firmware availability requirement
  • Insight in used raw materials
  • Ecodesign stimulating refurbishment, reuse and resale
  • Ecodesign as a tool to extend product life cycle

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