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Is the environmental impact of implementing each function appropriate to its importance ?

Recommendation 

Social

B People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

***

Priority

High

Récurrence

OnUpdate

Tests

Has a 80/20 approach been applied for each function in relation to its environmental footprint and its importance?

Precisions

The Sustainable IT consistency pushes to ensure that the secondary functions do not have a greater environmental footprint than the main functions. The specifications should clearly identify the main and secondary functions and their impact from a Sustainable IT perspective.

Use Case

Impact assessment

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

0 / 0

Life cycle

Utilisation

8 other criteria related to the recommendation: Define the challenges and functionalities of the project

Recommendation

security

Is the datacenter at least Tier 3 ?

Advice

security

Does the operator have several interconnected datacenters that are more than 100 km away ?

Recommendation

security

Is the datacenter certification appropriate for the need and the geographic location (seismic, flooding) ?

Advice

security

Does the physical access control to the site use biometric data ?

Advice

security

Does the data center provide a locally based digital vault solution ?

Recommendation

security

Do the processes put in place for the prevention of incidents take into account the non-degradability of servers and equipment ?

Recommendation

Social

Has each phase of the life cycle been identified with specific actions ?

Recommendation

Social

Is data from previous studies available and kept up to date ?