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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. They care about value.

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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. New data centres After doubling the capacity of its own data centers in Germany in 2023, Microsoft intends to double it again by the end of 2025. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

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Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs , and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Later, the companies jointly deployed 160 megawatts of two-phase immersion-cooled data centers.

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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

CIO

a data center, cloud, and Managed Services provider, is quick to point out that enterprises’ data sovereignty requirements are growing in scope. Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet.

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

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In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

CIO

Here tech leaders discuss how they’re innovating in an uncertain world by returning to the basics of good leadership, building trust, promoting transparency, and leaning into strategy over skillset. Of course, sustainability in IT leadership should be about more than just solar-powering new AI data centers,” she says. “It

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

CIO

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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