Equinix has released its 2022 Sustainability Report which outlines progress toward the company’s key environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) that are most aligned with its business—Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure; Climate Action; Affordable & Clean Energy; Decent Work & Economic Growth; Reduced Inequalities; and Gender Equality—Equinix’s Future First strategy is […]
Oracle has partnered with Injazat, Abu Dhabi’s digital transformation company, to create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region within Injazat’s data centers to provide the UAE’s federal government and Abu Dhabi’s local government entities access to Oracle Cloud Applications and Infrastructure services in compliance with the highest regulatory requirements. The partnership framework was signed at the Oracle […]
Seventy-five percent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program driven by cost optimization and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5% in 2022, according to Gartner. “Responsibilities for sustainability are increasingly being passed down from CIOs to infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to improve IT’s environmental performance, particularly around data centers,” said Autumn […]
By Patrick Smith, Field CTO for EMEA at Pure Storage Simplicity and innovation are the foundations on which John ‘Coz’ Colgrove started Pure Storage in 2009. He wanted to keep these principles while achieving a vision to take flash storage mainstream and create an all-flash datacentre. Innovative vision Today there are well-known advantages of flash […]
AVEVA has announced the launch of its latest AVEVA Predictive Analytics software release, purpose-built for predictive monitoring of industrial assets in oil and gas, power, chemicals, mining and minerals, and manufacturing. The software helps industrial operators achieve the highest possible levels of reliability and performance of industrial assets while improving sustainability and increasing workforce productivity. […]
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that Q1 enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services exceeded $63 billion worldwide, up by well over $10 billion from the first quarter of last year. The year-on-year growth rate was 20% in Q1. While this is well down from previous years, it was similar to the level of […]
For the third consecutive year, Abu Dhabi ranked as the smartest city in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for 2023, according to the IMD Smart City Index released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The International Institute […]
The hybrid data company Cloudera, along with its partners, will be hosting an event on the 18th of May 2023 at Museum of the Future, revolving around the ideology “Data Anywhere, Innovation Everywhere”. The data conference, Evolve, is set to take place in Dubai in partnership with AWS, IBM, Intel, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, Accenture, […]
ManageEngine has announced the opening of two ISO/IEC-27001-certified data centre facilities in London and Manchester. These will be its first data centres in the UK. This announcement brings the total number of data centre sites to 16 for ManageEngine globally and represents a USD 1 million investment. The two new data centres will support UK […]
BT has launched a new proposition to help multinational customers evolve their networks for net zero carbon emissions and deliver circularity in a measurable way. Sustainability is now a major factor in decision-making for almost all customers globally. Carbon reduction and circularity targets are cascading throughout organisations, including to CIOs and IT teams. However, with […]
