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Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By

Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to become a 100% renewably powered company seven years ahead of schedule. The online retail giant published its sixth annual Global sustainability report on Wednesday 10 July, which revealed Amazon had…

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IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…

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Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, AWS, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

A graphical user interface (GUI) is the way many people interact with computing devices, ranging from smartphones and smart TVs, to laptops, desktops and website navigation. Although smart speakers and the likes of Siri on iOS devices have given people an alternative user interface, where they can request information and do a limited range of…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

6 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, AWS, cloud-native, containers, Database, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position. Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in the market, pretty much locked into orchestration of…

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AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection

5 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Computer, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft claim their ability to accurately assess the Scope 3 emissions generated by their activities is being hampered by lacklustre embodied emissions data provided by the third parties that build and kit out their datacentres. The three hyperscale public cloud firms, along with Meta, Digital Realty and Schneider Electric,…

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Microsoft and CISPE’s settlement in long-running cloud antitrust dispute proves controversial

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body stands accused of selling its members down the river, after agreeing a $22m deal to withdraw its long-standing anti-trust complaint against Microsoft. The pair have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that commits Microsoft to making an enhanced version of its Azure Stack HCI offering…

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Hybrid cloud storage vs on-premise: What data goes where?

5 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, hybrid cloud, multicloud, SAP, Tech / By

For enterprises that want to extend their storage strategy, the public cloud is a place to start that can bring quick wins. After all, cloud technology is quick to deploy, needs little to no capital outlay, and can grow quickly with the business to store more data, especially unstructured data. Analyst Gartner predicts that enterprises…

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Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

The financial results of the world’s biggest three hyperscale cloud companies have seen Amazon, Google and Microsoft all credit growing customer demand for artificial intelligence (AI) services for boosting their respective profit, revenue and market share totals. The downside to this growth, particularly where Google and Microsoft are concerned, is that it appears to be…

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