Identify targets for improvement
Understand the best practices that can help you achieve your sustainability goals. You can find detailed descriptions of these best practices and recommendations for improvement later in this document.
Review your workloads and the resources used. Identify hot spots such as large deployments and frequently used resources. Evaluate these hot spots for opportunities to improve the effective utilization of your resources and to reduce the total resources required to achieve your business outcomes.
Review your workload against best practices, and identify candidates for improvement.
Applying this step to the Example scenario, you identify the following best practices as likely targets for improvement:
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Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs
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Use technologies that best support your data access and storage patterns