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AWS makes its Lift program available in India

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday made its global Lift program available in India, targeting small and medium-size businesses with revenue ranging from 800 million to 6.25 The Lift program, according to AWS, offers promotional credits and nearly 200 AWS services to help enterprises move on-premises workloads to the cloud.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.

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Saudi Vision 2030: Why the Kingdom is becoming a hub in EdTech education

CIO Business Intelligence

Proof of this is the KSA Cloud First Policy, announced in October 2020 by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and InformationTechnologies, after the launch of a cloud data center in the city of Jeddah, by Oracle. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths

The Verge

Boiling liquid surrounds servers at a Microsoft data center. It’s essentially a bath tub,” explains Christian Belady, vice president of Microsoft’s data center advanced development group, in an interview with The Verge. It’s in a small data center, and we’re looking at one rack’s worth,” says Belady. “We

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO Business Intelligence

“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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Microsoft’s latest environmental pledge tackles water scarcity

The Verge

Microsoft made a new commitment to replenish even more water than it uses for its global operations by 2030, making the company “water positive.”. The pledge builds on Microsoft’s previous eyebrow-raising climate commitment to capture more planet-heating carbon dioxide than it releases by 2030.