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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO

With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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Accelerating digital transformation with sustainable solutions

CIO

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO

In the European Union, for instance, legislative efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 50% before 2030 are in an advanced stage. At first glance, more distributed edge computing architectures will cause a replication of infrastructure in edge environments that benefit from economies of scale in the same way as the cloud.

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO

“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. You want to run things in the same cloud provider 9 and in the same data center 10. The cloud in 2030.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO

5G infrastructure involves multiple components, each of which represents an area where there is potential risk: Virtualized infrastructure: 5G services will run on virtual machines ( VMs ) as well as Kubernetes-based container infrastructure in the cloud and in data centers. Let’s prepare for the journey together.

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