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5 Sustainability concepts driving the data center of the future

CIO

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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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud

Xebia

Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud The Google Cloud is a cloud service that enables users to create and manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, store data, and run applications. When using Google Cloud, it’s important to implement technical boundaries that enforce your company’s security and privacy policies.

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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO

Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 mm thick, so 12.8 Right now, according to IDC, just under half (49%) of data is stored in a traditional data center.

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Intel embraces SDN to modernize its chip factories

CIO

Until recently, software-defined networking (SDN) technologies have been limited to use in data centers — not manufacturing floors. Our concept was to use data center technologies and bring them to the manufacturing floor,” says Rob Colby, project lead. blueprint, unveiled in 2021, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Hitachi Vantara’s API Strategy for The Smart Data Center

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

I will cover our strategy for utilizing it in our products and provide some example of how it is utilized to enable the Smart Data Center. REST enables plain-text exchanges of data assets. It also makes it possible to inherit security policies from an underlying transport mechanism.

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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry

CIO

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% Up to 25% of data center power is consumed by equipment that no longer performs useful work, [i] and only 10-30% of server capacity is used.