CIO

MAY 3, 2023

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

The supercomputers that power HPC, however, require more and more energy to operate. Dollars are moving to purchasing new energy-efficient hardware or devoting resources to optimization efforts or changing where HPC workloads are run. Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Intel are supporting these organizational efforts.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

That means hardware designed from the ground up for maximum performance, data center integration, AI development support, optimal cooling, and easy vertical and horizontal scaling. ASUS MGX servers easily integrate with enterprise and cloud data centers. ASUS optimizes these servers with three key capabilities.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Double-edged Using generative AI to help enterprises keep tabs on their greenhouse gas emissions, as Salesforce plans to do, can be a double-edged sword, as building and tuning the large language models (LLMs) they run on is energy intensive, and not all data centers use clean energy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The way Incooling CEO Helena Samodurova sees it, the IT world is experiencing two major crises: an energy crisis and a supply chain crisis. For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s expected to drive discoveries and advancements across a wide range of compute-intensive research areas—from bioscience to fusion energy and climate modeling. “The In November 2023, the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab announced the deployment of the U.K.’s s fastest AI supercomputer: Dawn Phase 1. Learn more.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Physical data center design is foundational, and the silent, longtail impact of an incorrectly provisioned system can mean launching into a “false start” deployment based on incorrect power, cooling, and network elements. Consider a system with 1,000 nodes, each connected by ten network cables and multiple complex network fabrics.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Many have even spun up renewable energy arms. Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% ii] Furthermore, according to HPE internal data, average storage utilization hovers around 40%.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

All of these present challenges for IT professionals within their day-to-day activities in data centers. This can lead to wasted resources, increased energy consumption, higher carbon emissions, and unnecessary use of raw materials. It’s a win-win scenario when moving to an as-a-service model.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But the requirements, difficult in areas with an already mature sustainable energy infrastructure in place, were overwhelming in sub-Saharan Africa. 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.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

More than half of the company’s portfolio has also achieved Telefónica’s Eco Smart Seal verified by ,AENOR, a designation that enables customers to quickly identify solutions and services that deliver energy savings, reduce water consumption, lower CO2 emissions and extend the useful life of hardware to promote a circular economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use that ability to look at how each part of the system was contributing to carbon emissions.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

My first step in that process is sharing some of the great insights I learned with all of you. The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), fueled by generative AI, is putting increasing pressure on data centers worldwide. Moving from an on-premise infrastructure to cloud computing offers significant energy savings.

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CIO

JUNE 22, 2023

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. Technology has quickly become a top priority for businesses across every industry. Average salary: US$119,921 Increase since 2021: +0.1%

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. Public cloud data centers, by contrast, are 93% more energy-efficient and produce 98% lower GHG emissions than on-premises datacenters, according to Microsoft and WSP Global. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Datacenters are also built with sustainability in mind.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“This means transitioning to renewable energy sources, responsibly disposing of e-waste, and optimizing hardware to be more energy-efficient.” Businesses should aim to balance efficiency gains with cost savings, Alcock says, while analyzing the energy efficiency and environmental impact of their operations. “As

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

SustainableIT.org recently released its first set of IT-based environmental, social and governance standards to provide CIOs with precise technical guidance about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy consumption. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers. “By

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Arcane manufacturer-specific interfaces and outdated control hardware are the norm. At Huawei’s cloud data center in Langfang, the AI-based iCooling solution automatically optimizes energy efficiency, reducing the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) by 8% to 15%.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a first step, companies can adopt data analytics to help reduce food or product waste. If a supplier is not working on their own sustainability goals, find one who is more in line with your company’s goals. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

They operationalize these technologies to understand where efficiencies can be achieved and new ways of working can be introduced, leading to reduced emissions, energy use, and materials. In some cases, CIOs are building more sustainable businesses by leveraging what already exists.

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Xebia

APRIL 14, 2023

no hardware to write off). AWS examples include emissions related to data center construction, and the manufacture and transportation of IT hardware deployed in data centers. These insights can be used to measure and report via data visualizations. CHG is the abbreviation for greenhouse gas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to strike the right balance between low latency, energy efficiency and compute power for use in anything from sensors to cameras and full-fledged edge servers. In addition, its software optimizes the overall data flow inside the architecture based on the specific workload.

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2016

One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Nlyte's Predict tool can help with capacity planning, using capacity projections to predict future resource needs based on historical data, as well as planned changes to applications and infrastructure.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Data centers run on electricity, which often comes from the burning of fossil fuels. In addition, computing hardware can use non-renewable resources mined from the earth, creating other environmental concerns. Dell Technologies is also working to make its hardware more sustainable. But becoming greener isn’t enough.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2023

Delivered from the company’s highly advanced data centers, the Copaco Cloud, powered by VMware technologies, provides the core of the company’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering (IaaS). This multi-faceted nature of the company’s business is reflected in its approach to sustainability. “As

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Sustainability : As the HPC market grows, so do the implications of running such energy-intensive and complex infrastructure. As leaders in the HPC industry, we are worried about how to cool these data centers. Many are looking at innovative data center designs including modular centers and colocation.

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

By Roman Martin , Solutions Engineer, CloudSphere Regardless of industry, energy efficiency and sustainability have become increasingly more topical and important in the business world of today. According to Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers are 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. ” Eliyan’s roots are in a previous startup, Aquantia, that Marvell acquired in 2019.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dimension Data is widely known for bold innovations and stalwart cloud solutions and services that enable enterprises to dramatically improve their businesses; now it is on mission to benefit the planet – and in the process, the communities it services and the economies it influences. It is an effort that he stresses cannot be done alone. “We

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CIO

MAY 7, 2023

We want our customers to be able to provide their clients with high-performance cloud services from the Nordic region’s most secure data centers with one click,” says Brink. “We All of Cloudist’s services use entirely renewable energy sources throughout the entire delivery chain. They are personal.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Scope 2 is on all indirect emissions resulting from an organization’s energy consumption, including emissions from the company’s energy provider. Furthermore, IT accounts for most of the energy expenditure for a lot of organizations—and it’s getting worse. The large hardware vendors usually have the numbers readily available.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And as the hyperscalers add more GPUs (which are exponentially more expensive than traditional CPUs) to the mix in their own data centers, those costs will likely be passed on to enterprise customers. Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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