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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO

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. “Now Data centers today use nearly 1% of electricity and create.3%

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO

Bahrain EDB As cloud adoption grows, its impact on economies and businesses is starting to show that digital transformation can make good on the utopian promises of innovation and improved public services. Those who demand to see hard facts that prove the power of cloud should examine Bahrain. So why did AWS select Bahrain?

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Redshift at the time was the first data warehouse running in the cloud. Startups are coming for the cloud.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? Less time spent on infrastructure. We've seen Cloud 1.0

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Google Sustainability Efforts in the Cloud Now Claim to be “Carbon Intelligent”

ParkMyCloud

Given that cloud computing has been a major draw of global energy in recent years, the amount of computing done in data centers more than quintupled between 2010 and 2018. But, the amount of energy consumed by the world’s data centers grew only six percent during that period, thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.

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Leveraging Cloud Services with HCP S3 Tiering

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Amazon’s cloud business grew nearly 48.9$ Their cloud business also was one of the main contributors to Amazon’s record $2.5 This is a strong sign that the cloud business is growing and adding value to organizations. This is a strong sign that the cloud business is growing and adding value to organizations.

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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” They weren’t buying users with subsidized prices; they were building data centers.