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Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood

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The post Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. AWS also has models to reduce data processing and storage, and tools to “right size” infrastructure for AI application. The Icelandic data center uses 100% renewably generated geothermal and hydroelectric power.

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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.

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

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Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. We didn’t want to invest in a data center that would commit us to another five-year depreciation cycle.

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

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Infrastructure and platform services might be hosted in providers’ infrastructures or customers’ data centers, but are owned by the service provider. Traditionally, OCI has leveraged Oracle’s leadership in the database and ERP markets to grow its market share through existing Oracle customers,” the report notes.