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Measuring Your Azure Carbon Footprint with the Sustainability API

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So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. In this blog, we’ll dive into the carbon emission data it offers and how it can be leveraged for a more sustainable future.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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Everything CarMax does that is new is done on the cloud but the company still has a small data center that will eventually be phased out. As a Microsoft Azure shop, CarMax relies on Azure Data Lake, an essential component of the company’s AI output, the CIO notes. It’s not the wild west,” he says.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

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This also includes safeguarding prospective customers from unexpected costs: the company’s Cloud Pricing Calculator gives enterprises a detailed quote for cloud services, whether it’s for the multi-tenant or dedicated private IT Vortex Cloud or VMware integrations with public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

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In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands. In this blog, we’ll compare the three leading public cloud providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. To counteract that, JLL has targeted commercial segments that are experiencing high growth, such as cloud and data center operators, which require lots of square footage. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation

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Skills the Irish Government CIO uses to advance digital transformation

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He met with resistance from politicians when plans for a public services card and a public sector data center seemed to intersect with politically sensitive issues, privacy rights, and the path to net zero. The plan was scuppered at the last minute because AWS and Microsoft Azure couldn’t accept the terms and conditions.