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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. Leadership The most important part of the cloud-conscious culture is leadership. Fluency in the language “The foundational element of a culture is literacy,” adds Firment. “If

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers. Often our most significant hurdle is company culture. As mentioned, we had to do this because it was the only way.

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Energy Efficiency and the Data Center

DevOps.com

The data center is well-known as a voracious data consumer. But the data center consumption findings keep pace with the trend. The post Energy Efficiency and the Data Center appeared first on DevOps.com. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line.

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Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder. The post Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Employee engagement platform Culture Amp raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5

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

DevOps.com

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.