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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. “Is

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Accelerating digital transformation with sustainable solutions

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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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ESG tools for cloud computing can be a distraction

InfoWorld

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have gained significant traction recently. They don’t look at the total inefficiencies of the overall cloud architecture, only at specific tactical metrics that could prove meaningless. I live in northern Virginia, where data centers are scattered everywhere.

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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO

Just 38% of that data will be processed in cloud or core locations, with the remainder headed to a variety of on-premises and nearby as-a-service edge venues. Generating business value from this data will require significant growth in edge computing deployments. This presents a critical sustainability challenge.

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Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

CIO

Greengarten believes that effort begins with building an Environmental, Social, and Governance program that addresses the unique risks faced by the IT services industry. For Orro, those include carbon emissions, obsolete equipment, data theft, gender diversity, disturbance to natural sites, and ethical sourcing.

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Can cloud computing be truly federated?

InfoWorld

The fediverse is a decentralized social network of independent servers that can communicate with each other. I’ve seen these types of architecture come and go over the years. Unlike the extensive social networks and public cloud providers, there is no centralized system. Recently, I’ve been questioned about the fediverse.

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