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Accelerating sustainability to build stronger businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

A holistic collaborative approach, involving all strategic business units, has become integral to supporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments and targets across its core operations and processes. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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ESG rules and emission cuts in the telecom sector

Dataconomy

The telecom industry is very energy-dependent, and most of the emphasis in recent years has been on technological innovation to do with speed and connectivity. The importance of ESG in the telecom industry Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles are vital for the telecom industry to operate responsibly.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

SustainableIT.org recently released its first set of IT-based environmental, social and governance standards to provide CIOs with precise technical guidance about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy consumption. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers. “By

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Fountainhead: Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures. I just read an interesting blog by Rob Aldrich on the advantages of "unified fabrics" when pursuing energy efficiency. Its a fantastic complement to virtualization. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And now for some observations and learnings: Energy Efficiency. In all of the talk about energy efficiency, the SuperNAP averages a PUE around 1.24 and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 Data Center Density.

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. I arrived at these observations when I speak with data center managers who admit that they dont have solutions to these issues. Virtualization does not equal agility. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. And #3 is how the actual software (physical, virtual, appliances, AMIs, etc.)