DevOps.com

MAY 14, 2024

The environmental impact of data centers is becoming increasingly critical. These facilities, essential to our digital infrastructure, consume vast amounts of energy and contribute significantly to carbon emissions. Recognizing the urgency of this issue, Platform.sh

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DevOps.com

MAY 14, 2024

The environmental impact of data centers is becoming increasingly critical. These facilities, essential to our digital infrastructure, consume vast amounts of energy and contribute significantly to carbon emissions. By incorporating renewable energy, cutting-edge cooling systems, and robust carbon offset […]

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit. To make the most of these applications, enterprises need distributed digital infrastructure in locations throughout the world.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. We need a strong digital infrastructure and the right skills. In addition, new infrastructure is planned in the Rhenish mining district in North Rhine-Westphalia. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“When Involta was founded in 2007, sustainability wasn’t a top-of-mind issue for the industry, but our founders understood its importance and continually made everyday improvements that promoted energy efficiency and reduced our carbon emissions,” says Kremer. Data centers today use nearly 1% of electricity and create.3%

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Salesforce’s AI Research team has also developed methods such as maximum parallelism, he adds, which split up compute-intensive tasks efficiently to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.

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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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DevOps.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive. DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7 appeared first on DevOps.com. The post Recession!

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Deploying on a sustainable digital infrastructure foundation that is more distributed, flexible, and interconnected across diverse ecosystems than ever before, is now fundamental for organizations to achieve their climate targets. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Answering 100 million+ generative AI questions a day can burn 1 Gigawatt-hour of electricity, which is roughly the daily energy use of 33,000 US households.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. All the logic is still in Java hosted on Amazon’s infrastructure.”

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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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Dots and Bridges

MARCH 10, 2021

Hear the dialog between a few of the Federal Government’s top data center thought leaders. As they talk about the shifting trends in data center optimization, they assure us that working in the dark isn’t all that scary. You will hear how: Next generation DCIM tools are the trick to Data Center Modernization.

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CIO

MAY 29, 2024

Nevertheless, Koushik and many other technologists argue that AI’s benefits far outweigh its ever-growing carbon footprint, which may not be the case for other energy-hungry applications, such as cryptocurrencies. Inference output takes a split second. You don’t need GPT-4 to do claims adjudication in an insurance setting,” says Koushik.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2023

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US Signal is the largest privately-held data center services provider in the Midwest. We believe it’s possible to build and operate data centers in a scalable, environmentally friendly way,” adds McCormick.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

a data center, cloud, and Managed Services provider, is quick to point out that enterprises’ data sovereignty requirements are growing in scope. To address them requires not only a proven and robust sovereign cloud framework, but also an equally robust infrastructure to deliver it. Wojciech Stramski, CEO of Beyond.pl

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern networks allow you to proactively monitor, manage and reduce infrastructure energy consumption – something NTT DATA has also implemented in our own data centers. Sustainability is also important when considering how cables and infrastructure are manufactured. How does NTT DATA make it happen?

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Moving workloads to the cloud has been proven to reduce enterprises’ energy usage and their carbon footprint by at least 30%. These include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, storage, and a wide array of modern, custom cloud-native applications.

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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

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. We need to usher in a revolution in infrastructure and security. It’s only about where we place our time, money, and energy. And it worked.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We know our customers need a trusted digital infrastructure partner to help them meet their sustainability goals, which is why we’ve made it a top priority to become a sustainability leader in the data center industry. This makes 2022 the fifth consecutive year we’ve achieved greater than 90% renewable energy coverage.

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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. Our focus as a platform is to discover IT infrastructure, the breadth and depth of discovery going from mainframe to cloud and everything in between.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Although IT may often be viewed as a cost center, Olson believes your organization should treat the services you provide, such as infrastructure, development, and support, as a business within the larger organization.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Across industries, companies are modernizing IT infrastructure and wielding digital tools to increase organizational flexibility, agility, and resiliency in their efforts to stay abreast of the competition. In fact, self-owned data centers and IT equipment are a major source of energy usage and carbon emissions for enterprises.

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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. The traditional procurement cycle often requires early forecasting of IT infrastructure, which can be challenging due to uncertainties in technology advancement and business growth.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In Australia, Orro is synonymous with ironclad software-defined infrastructure and sovereign cloud services that enable new ways of working, from fully managed cloud-native applications that accelerate the pace of business, to advanced collaboration tools that deliver on the promise of remote work.

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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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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

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. To counteract that, JLL has targeted commercial segments that are experiencing high growth, such as cloud and data center operators, which require lots of square footage. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Other factors affecting AWS growth, according to Olsavsky, were inflation in employee salaries due to stock-based compensation and rising energy costs alongside continued investments in its data centers. But we’ll continue to look for ways to optimize our operations to use less energy,” the CFO said during the earnings call.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NOV, a technology-driven solutions supplier serving the global energy industry, wanted to reduce costs, improve security, and make life easier for its 32,000 users and IT administrators across 62 countries. The company adopted multiple services within the Zero Trust Exchange to streamline and simplify its security infrastructure.

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