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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

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It’s a vendor-specific certification that will benefit anyone who is tasked with working directly with AWS products and services or looking to make good on the high demand for cloud skills today. According to PayScale, the average salary for a CompTIA A+ certification is $70,000 per year.

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

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But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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LA Public Defender CIO digitizes to divert people to programs, not prison

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So he was recruited to create a 20-year vision to establish a client-centered case management system to replace the “on-premise computer closets that was called a data center,” he says. He arrived at a crucial time when the office, laden with paper records and outdated legacy systems, desperately needed a digital overhaul.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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One of those requirements was to move out of its hosting provider data center and into a hyperscaler’s cloud. Meanwhile, through 2017 and 2018, he says, “there was a big surge in companies moving from usually on-premises data centers to AWS or Azure, and then finding a partner to run their SAP in the cloud.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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The standards, for instance, enable CIOs to determine scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions levels and report exactly how much energy their data centers are using and how much power their cloud workloads are consuming, Koushik says. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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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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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. They are also becoming more and more aware that their data center operations are a very large contributor to their overall carbon footprint.

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General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

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And the results are truly multicloud, as Hannah has opted to work with all the top cloud vendors to fill the company’s various back-office needs — AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud — as well as Workday for HR and other SaaS vendors for specific needs.

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