Success in aligning the I&O strategy with critical business outcomes is needed Seventy-five percent of organizations will have implemented a data centre infrastructure sustainability program driven by cost optimization and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5 per cent in 2022, according to Gartner, Inc. “Responsibilities for sustainability are increasingly…
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Data centres face three key challenges
Managers are often forced to do more with less Data centres play a critical role in keeping the global economy productive. Demand for data storage and processing has become insatiable worldwide, which makes it more challenging than ever to operate and scale these facilities efficiently. Managers also face mounting pressure…
Read MoreFour trends shaping the future of public cloud global end-user spending
Public cloud services expected to exceed $US480B in 2022. Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner, Inc. The four trends are: cloud ubiquity, regional cloud ecosystems,…
Read MoreAirtel expands green energy for data centres
Global logistics company moves senior VP of logistics firm into CIO role. As part of its mission to rapidly grow its green energy footprint, Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s digital communications solutions provider, has commissioned a 14 MWp captive solar power plant to meet the energy requirements of its core and…
Read MoreIndia’s server market experiences weakening in demand
Hyperscalers continues to spend towards building robust data centres. India’s economy is on the verge of gaining momentum post Covid-19 lockdown and roll out of coronavirus vaccines. From an enterprise spending perspective, analyst firm IDC, anticipates investments in compute to come from global hyperscalers and local DC players, telecommunications vertical,…
Read MoreSunseap and Facebook to support data centre operations in Singapore
To help Facebook reach sustainability goals in the region. One of Singapore’s solar energy company, Sunseap Group will supply Facebook with renewable energy to support the tech company’s operations in Singapore. This will include one of Facebook’s first custom-built data centre in Asia. The transaction with Sunseap will help Facebook—one…
Read MoreGoogle unveils ambitious sustainability plans for its data centres
Tech giant to eliminate its entire carbon legacy. Google has unveiled one of its most ambitious plans for towards a decade of climate action. According to the technology giant, it plans to commit to help more than 500 cities and local governments reduce an aggregate of one gigaton (one billion tons)…
Read MoreAMD pushes more compute power for AWS customers
Collaboration between AMD and AWS. AMD’s recently released 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a instances is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific regions. Powered by a 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor running at frequencies up to 3.3Ghz, the Amazon EC2 C5a instances are…
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