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Sustainable IT: A crisis needing leadership and change

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In fact, a Sustainable IT report by Capgemini states that 89% of companies surveyed recycle less than 10% of their IT hardware, and less than half of executives say they are aware of their organizations’ IT footprint. The tech giant aims to be the first major company to be carbon neutral by 2030, operating on 24/7 carbon-free energy.

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The CTO’s newest hat is green

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The CEOs surveyed said that sustainability would be their top growth driver between now and 2030. In addition, computing hardware can use non-renewable resources mined from the earth, creating other environmental concerns. Participants also predicted that their organizations’ computing power would increase by an average of 9% by 2030.

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

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By 2030 we aim to do the same for all our operations worldwide – a goal that is at the core of VMware’s Zero Carbon Committed initiative as well.” Green IT, IT Leadership “As a company, we have strengthened our commitment to help limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 The impact is something Ribaya values and takes personally.

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Dimension Data: Dedicated to Making the Greatest Impact on the Planet, the Economy and the Communities it Serves

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Now Dimension Data is in the midst of an aggressive effort to achieve net-zero emissions across all of its operations by 2030. A year ago, we set out our sustainability ambitions which put us on the path to achieve operational and net zero emissions by 2030,” says Turnley-Jones. Cloud Management, Green IT, IT Leadership

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What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

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A study from Zippia found that automation has the potential to eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030, with 35% of Americans worried about automation displacing them and 25% of American jobs “highly susceptible” to automation. Run tests for databases, systems, networks, applications, hardware, and software.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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WABTEC products and locomotives have numerous embedded digital pieces – both hardware and software, which allow us to track performance, and assess their reliability and warranty for the customers. What are the steps you’re taking as part of the leadership to ensure that the sustainability goals are met?

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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

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“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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