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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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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

CIO

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. Green IT, IT Leadership Environment.

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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO

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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Why Purpose-Built Infrastructure is the Best Option for Scaling AI Model Development

CIO

This inflection point related to the increasing amount of time needed for AI model training — as well as increasing costs around data gravity and compute cycles — spurs many companies to adopt a hybridized approach and move their AI projects from the cloud back to an on-premises infrastructure or one that’s colocated with their data lake.

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

Cloud is scalable IT infrastructure that enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes, support business growth, and minimize disruptions,” says Swati Shah, SVP and CIO of US markets at TransUnion, the Chicago-based IT services and consulting company. They care about value. Leaders need to walk the walk and talk the talk.”

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Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7

DevOps.com

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!