
How SAP Data Archiving Contributes to Energy Savings
When we think about pollution, our minds immediately run to images of plastic waste at dump sites, choking up fish in the ocean, or toxic fumes damaging the ozone layer. While these are major contributors to the current environmental crisis, data enters the fray as an invisible pollutant with greater potential for environmental damage than we might imagine.
The digital economy accounts for between 3 and 4% of worldwide greenhouse gases, with data storage making up an estimated 2% of all global carbon emissions.
The response to these stats should be obvious: How can businesses manage their data and contribute to a cleaner planet for all? Thoughtful data volume management through SAP Data Archiving is an effective solution to reducing the data load on the system (and the environment).

SAP Data Archiving
Let’s unpack what SAP Data Archiving is and how it can reduce energy wastage:
Data archiving is defined as the process of finding business-complete data that is no longer in use and moving it from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) production systems into an external archive or storage system for long-term retrieval.
SAP Data Archiving involves systematically removing the business complete data from the SAP database, reducing the load on the system and optimising performance.
Unchecked data can quickly overwhelm a system, compromising its performance and resulting in unnecessary costs and environmental compliance burdens. This makes SAP Data Archiving an indispensable element in any business data strategy since it serves to identify inactive data and seamlessly transition it into long-term storage systems.
SAP Data Archiving = Energy Savings
Data growth is currently taking off at an alarming rate. If left unchecked, it will increase in volume, resulting in extra information costs.
Managing and storing data is costly from a financial and environmental perspective. Data centres are, for example, among the highest consumers of electric power with a high likelihood of exponential growth in the years to come.
Let’s explore how SAP Data Archiving can work to lessen a business’s carbon footprint:
- Less data means less energy is required to store it: SAP Data Archiving works to sift through and identify obsolete data, removing it from the system to reduce costs and overall environmental impact.
- Reduction in operational costs: Storing less data means that you use less electricity, servers and people to ensure its safekeeping, impacting your bottom line as well as carbon emissions.
- Automated data tiering: SAP Data Archiving ensures that frequently accessed data remains in high-performance storage, while less critical data is moved to more energy-efficient storage tiers.
- Less need to manufacture physical storage disks
- Reduction in hardware and cloud storage costs
- Alignment with data-regulated statutory regulations
- Optimising server maintenance
- Reduction in heating and cooling costs of server rooms
- Minimising hardware waste management costs and recycling

Choose SAP Data Archiving for a Sustainable Tomorrow
The ongoing global energy crisis necessitates swift and transformative solutions across various societal sectors, and your data management strategy can greatly impact this too.
SAP Data Archiving emerges as the solution for businesses aiming to achieve sustainability and energy savings.
GlueData has been helping global clientele master their data and we’re committed to:
- Providing practical and sustainable data solutions that let our clients take the reins on their data, effectively curbing its environmental impact
- Delivering world-class, forward-thinking solutions with the help of industry experts
- Proven methodology and dedicated service to ensure excellence in all that we do
- Alignment with world-class partners from various industries.