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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. At Vuori, everything is in the cloud.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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News in Networking: Open Data Centers, Internet 911, and $138.5B for Data

Kentik

This week in networking news, GE, HPE and LinkedIn are just a few of the companies pushing for open data center designs via the launch of a new nonprofit. And 451 Research is forecasting the data platforms and analytics market will reach $138.5 This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. billion by 2021. .

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Patches are often created after a software or hardware company has experienced a data breach or recognized a vulnerability that might allow one. The patch is issued to ensure other businesses’ data remains safe. Adopt software and hardware that automatically detect and apply patches. A Stitch in Time.

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Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business

TechCrunch

To date, AssemblyAI has raised $64 million, which founder and CEO Dylan Fox tells TechCrunch is being invested in growing the company’s research and engineering teams and data center capacity AI model training. Fox founded AssemblyAI after a 2-year stint at Cisco, where he worked on machine learning for collaboration products.

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Azure vs AWS: How to Choose the Cloud Service Provider?

Existek

It eliminated the need to get back to the traditional environment when teams struggled with complex and costly in-house hardware and software. . At some point, cloud computing has changed how to streamline business processes and deal with data in general. Cloud computing is applied across various industries and organizations.

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Atlanta Tech Events and Startup Hubs You Need to Visit

Altexsoft

However, those belonging to information security solution providers (software, hardware, and consultancy) are not allowed, unless partnering with a sponsoring organization. Data Center Solution Annual Summit 2020. The annual event tracks activity in the development of the Data Center Industry.