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Sustainability and climate change are the overarching themes as data centers look to operate more efficiently and with a positive impact on the environment.

Sustainable storage – time for IT teams to step up

Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

Sustainability – time for a revolution? Part 2

Pankaj Sharma, Schneider Electric's Global Executive Vice President, Secure Power Division, considers the importance of reducing greenhouse gases as a measurable sustainability objective, alongside the need to reconsider some data centre fundamentals, as well as recognising the demands of the digital world.

Spotlight on Women in IT – Episode 29 - Agilitas

Interview with Bev Markland, Chief People Officer at Agilitas. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.

Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

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OVHcloud launches first data centre in India

OVHcloud continues to expand in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a data centre designed to meet the region’s needs for trusted and sustainable cloud solutions.

72% of tech leaders plan to increase their investment in tech skills development

Pluralsight has released its 2023 State of Upskilling Report, which compiles survey results from more than 1,200 tech learners and leaders in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India on the most current trends and attitudes around tech skills development.

Virtual Reality transforms EDI Training at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully used virtual reality (VR) technology for the first time to provide immersive learning experiences for staff in equality, diversity and inclusion training.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp

OpsRamp and the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform will provide a unified approach to manage multi-vendor computing, networking, storage, and application resources in hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments.

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