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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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Sustainable IT: A crisis needing leadership and change

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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. This is where IT leadership needs to step up. Adopt sustainable practices.

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

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There are three ways to do this: Maximize hardware energy efficiency Consolidate infrastructure Use renewable energy sources Deploying Energy-Efficient Hardware The Hyperion Research study found three geo-specific motivations for the heightened prioritization of sustainability in HPC deployments.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

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Broadcom has made a series of acquisitions under CEO Hock Tan’s leadership, including CA Technologies and Symantec’s enterprise security division, and Tan has often cut marketing expenses and dumped parts of the acquired company that underperform. Data Center, IT Strategy, Technology Industry, Virtualization, VMware

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. Then you wonder why it’s so expensive.”

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

CIO

If you run your operations the same way as when you operated in data centers, the cloud will be three to five times as expensive.” On FinOps in action: Our on-prem software testing labs were running different operating systems and hardware combinations because every customer is unique. That’s the beauty of the cloud.

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How the C-Suite Can Champion Sustainability Across the Enterprise

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While CIOs and CTOs play critical roles in a company’s digital transformation efforts , only about half of them are part of their organization’s sustainability goal leadership team , and even fewer are assessed on a company’s achievement of its sustainability goals. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.