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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Dickson says that DS Smith also plans to use virtual private clouds for some corporate data, giving it flexibility and control. By 2030, the company also aims to send zero waste to the landfill, to decarbonize its operations and value chain, and to limit its global temperature increases to 1.5 We’re a very purpose-based company.”

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Amazon begins the ‘huge’ lift to shrink the carbon footprint of its devices to reach climate goals

GeekWire

It also puts the Amazon devices team in competition, if you will, with Amazon Web Services and other divisions who are likewise committed to procuring renewable energy to account for their direct power use. Its early sustainability actions focused on packaging used by the company sellers in its virtual marketplace.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO Business Intelligence

We bundle virtual firewalls, layered antivirus, Security Operations Center-as-a-Service, 24/7/365 alerts and monitoring, and more to ensure that our clients are protected in the cloud from day one.”. Notably, IT Vortex envisions most enterprises ultimately taking a hybrid approach and offers a flexible platform with that in mind.

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Amazon and critics wage PR war in annual meeting with starkly opposing portraits of tech giant

GeekWire

A scene from a video shown by Amazon during its virtual annual shareholders meeting. But the meeting, held virtually for the first time, provided a high-profile platform for criticism of the company. Each of the proposals was voted down. “This is environmental racism.” pic.twitter.com/Qt9Ids8amx.

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Researchers want to put energy hogs like ChatGPT on a diet with more efficient computer chips

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Giant tech companies offering cloud services — such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud — own many of the massive data centers where generative AI tools are trained and operate. We need the creativity. We need new ideas.”

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5 AI stocks to buy in January and hold for the long haul

Dataconomy

Salesforce CEO says LLM capabilities are nearing their limit Amazons cloud computing advantage powered by AI Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to be among the biggest AI winners as its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), maintains its position as the global leadercommanding roughly 31% of the market.

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Buyer’s guide: Edge data centers

Network World

Major trends in edge data centers “Data gravity” refers to the dramatic shift in how and where enterprise data is generated, driven primarily by the explosion of IoT devices across virtually every industry. Amazon Web Services: AWS Outposts delivers AWS infrastructure and services to on-premises or edge locations.