Sales leaders represent "the frontline" for discussing sustainability with customers, HPE Chief Sustainability Officer Monica Batchelder said.

Open source technology plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, but the community could use deeper connections with climate scientists.

And "it just goes up from there," depending on "where customers are within their lifecycle," Cisco's Jeremy Foster said.

By 2027, 75% of organizations are predicted to have a data center sustainability program in place, according to Gartner research.

The tightening of IT budgets and sustainability's commercialization, however, don't seem to have diluted the topic's relevance.

If companies genuinely seek to fulfill their ESG goals, the whole organization needs to "be mobilized across all levels," IBM VP Bill Lobig said.

Ciena expects its WaveRouter platform for converged metro networks will be a significant driver of market share growth.

Sustainability used to be in IT leaders' top 5 concerns, but today "it's definitely within the top 3," IBM VP Tina Tarquinio said.

Climate action needs to be centered around equity, Salesforce VP Tim Christophersen said.

Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 frees app developers from needing to understand "a gobbledygook of technologies," VMware SVP Purnima Padmanabhan said.

"We're hoping to dare other corporates to be super transparent," Google Head of Infrastructure and Water Strategy Ben Townsend said.

Gartner predicts 75% of IT organizations will implement data center infrastructure sustainability initiatives by 2027.

Using artificial intelligence to work toward environmental goals "is a mission critical priority," Gartner's Lydia Ferguson said.

The service helps organizations build predictive solutions that tell farmers about vegetation health or point out disease risks.

Happy International Women's Day to the ladies leaving tech at a significantly higher rate than men.

The reality of climate change doesn't make sustainability an urgent or important corporate priority on its own, Gartner's Brendan Williams said.

The tools provide actionable insights for organizations to lower their environmental impacts.

"Now enterprises know cloud computing is substantially greener than enterprise computing," Deloitte's David Linthicum said.

Fortinet is joined on the sustainability leaderboard by cloud and software providers like Akamai Technologies, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP.

The digital twin offer will help accelerate corporate sustainability and emissions targets, NTT Chief Digital Officer Tanvir Khan said.

The survey found IT departments don't take the necessary steps to support sustainability goals.

"The goal is to incentivize customers to return old or outdated equipment for refurbishment and to be made available again to the right customer," Linda D’Amico said.

"Sustainability enables businesses to cope with disruption," analyst Kristin Moyer explained in a Gartner sustainability investment report.

Harness' cloud auto-stopping has saved its customers up to 90% on cloud costs, according to Director of Cloud Cost Product Marketing Julie Herd.