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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO

According to SP&G research estimates, the data demands for low-latency workloads across eight key industries will grow from 5,700 petabytes in 2021 to 194,000 petabytes through 2027 — an increase of more than 30 times. This presents a critical sustainability challenge. We refer to them as “deploy the edge” and “run the edge.”

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Accelerating sustainability to build stronger businesses

CIO

Environmental sustainability has emerged as a significant concern and a business imperative for organizations today. A holistic collaborative approach, involving all strategic business units, has become integral to supporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments and targets across its core operations and processes.

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Becoming the sustainability partner our customers need

CIO

At Equinix, we recognize that meeting key sustainability targets is one of our customers’ top concerns—now and into the future. We’re also emphasizing transparency in our sustainability metrics, so that current and future Equinix customers can easily see how our efforts might benefit their sustainability bottom line.

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Sustainable IT: A crisis needing leadership and change

CIO

We recently held our annual corporate conference addressing many subjects top of mind with IT leaders and it came as no surprise that a session on sustainability was one of the most attended. Let’s dive into the three pillars of ESG in the context of sustainable IT. Environment.

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Social commerce startup Elenas secures $20M to help more LatAm women sell online

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Google-backed ShareChat cuts 20% workforce to ‘sustain through headwinds’

TechCrunch

ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 100 roles. “Keeping these factors in mind, we need to prepare the company to sustain through these headwinds.