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APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions. John Gallant, CIO.coms Enterprise Consulting Director and Vito Mabrucco, NTT Corp. John Gallant, CIO.coms Enterprise Consulting Director and Vito Mabrucco, NTT Corp.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. Major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP provide visibility tools, and they even offer tools that enable enterprises to measure carbon usage.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

Becoming a sustainable enterprise is no longer a “nice to have” priority – reducing a company’s carbon footprint and fighting climate change is now mainstream. A sustainable model is built on an entrepreneurial approach to collaboration and building together, while making sure that the impact on the ecosystem is reduced steadily. “A

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

However, the rapid pace of growth also highlights the urgent need for more sustainable and efficient resource management practices. FinOps primarily involves finance and IT teams, often neglecting input from other stakeholders like operations and sustainability teams. Here are the key reasons: Lack of cross-functional alignment.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability has emerged as a significant concern and a business imperative for organizations today. Sustainability Leaders Video Series In this APAC Network video series hosted by Equinix, meet Asia-Pacific’s most inspiring people and companies leading the green revolution and charting a sustainable future for our planet.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Amidst this progress, however, the lack of data center access raises a big challenge to Africas connectivity, as most countries in Africa have a national data center. But to build this data residency, increased data center and digital infrastructure investment is needed.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2024

As part of that partnership, Google operates AES’ private cloud platform in its data centers. Not bad for a sustainability initiative designed to reduce the $12.7B The Farseer and AMART program, which kicked off in July 2022, generated $3.4 million in its first year, contributed a $5.5

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

The foreign direct investment (FDI) sector financed $30 billion in sustainability projects, often referred to as global greenfield megaprojects, according to the UNs latest World Investment Report. For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2023

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US Signal is the largest privately-held data center services provider in the Midwest. We recently connected with Katie McCormick, director of marketing at US Signal, to learn more about the company’s aggressive efforts to encourage sustainable business operations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Our sustainability goals and key performance indicators are important to us. Bechtle also offers the Google Cloud VMware Engine, an offering that empowers enterprises to quickly realize the power of Google Cloud while using the VMware technologies they know and trust.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Innovation underpins corporate sustainability efforts. From an investment standpoint, sustainable solutions can also perform double duty, often yielding significant added value such as productivity and efficiency gains and new revenue streams. of global emissions. of global emissions. Power savings represents just part of the equation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Andris Gailitis, the CEO of European Data Center Operator DEAC and Data Logistics Center ( DLC ), is quick to point out that the companies’ commitment to sustainability is heartfelt and genuine. It reduces energy consumption by more than 80%.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

We recently held our annual corporate conference addressing many subjects top of mind with IT leaders and it came as no surprise that a session on sustainability was one of the most attended. Enterprise IT is contributing significantly to the world’s carbon footprint. With the number of connected devices expected to reach 55.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As more enterprises sign on to the trend of digital transformation and bringing more of their legacy work into the modern era of work, a company called SnapLogic , which has built a platform to integrate those apps and data, and to automate some of the activities that use them, has raised a big round of growth funding.

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CIO

MAY 29, 2024

On the surface and as it exists today, AI and sustainability take you in opposite directions,” says Srini Koushik, president of AI, technology and sustainability at Rackspace Technology. “AI Sundberg knows about as much as anybody on Scope 3 reporting and covers the subject in his book Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the energy and utilities sector, sustainability goals, such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and UAEs Net Zero 2050, will drive investment in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-driven energy efficiency solutions. Governments and enterprises will leverage AI for economic diversification, operational efficiency, and enhanced citizen services.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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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Digital Realty

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Sustainability programs are no longer a nice to have for enterprises. Data centers are among the highest consumers of power, consuming more than 70 billion kilowatt-hours of… In today’s ecosystem, it’s both a financial and social necessity.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“The foundation of our business is rooted in sustainability. Moving workloads to the cloud has been proven to reduce enterprises’ energy usage and their carbon footprint by at least 30%. We also explored why sustainability is a personal issue for employees at Routed. Our company symbol is the baobob tree,” says Cruise. “As

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. That launch was followed by the opening of a new data center in Singapore and Serbia within months.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2022

Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. This is a multi-faceted trend to keep front and center. Enterprise storage cyber resilience continues to need to be part of your corporate cybersecurity strategy.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Data is the fabric of our connected world. The rise of streaming and enterprise cloud adoption have driven an explosive surge in computing demand, giving rise to data centers around the world. From 2020 to 2025, data usage is expected to quadruple. From 2020 to 2025, data usage is expected to quadruple.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The network is the foundation of the enterprise. It’s also essential for AI, sustainability and cybersecurity. Supporting sustainability AI isn’t the only hot topic of our time – there’s also sustainability. Sustainability is also important when considering how cables and infrastructure are manufactured.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sustainability is a major priority in business boardrooms already, and pressures from regulators, shareholders, board members and employees are likely to further drive this trend. There is a clear company risk in not being sustainable, both to the planet and to the business. Businesses need to do more than just track carbon output.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

We believe the objectives we have laid out in our sustainability plan, and our participation in efforts like the VMware Zero Carbon Committed initiative are important first from a corporate responsibility perspective,” he adds. Ribaya believes such efforts are important from multiple perspectives. “We

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics. One of those is deriving insight from data. However, compliance with the EU CSRD will be mandatory.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

“Especially for enterprises across highly regulated industries, there is increasing pressure to innovate quickly while balancing the need for them to meet stringent regulatory requirements, including data sovereignty. Badlaney also notes that VMware’s addition to the Broadcom family comes at a strategic time.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Designing for sustainability adds even more complexity to the process, chiefly because it requires integrating “green” principles and complying with environmental laws and regulations. Large enterprises own and maintain a lot of buildings. ” Applying AI to building design. According to a U.S.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Surging demand for AI computing power will strain the supply chains for data center chips, personal computers, and smart phones, and, combined with “continued geopolitical tensions and other supply risks, could trigger the next semiconductor shortage,” a report released Tuesday by Bain & Company stated.

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