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The importance of digital in creating a more sustainable future

Subhagata (Subho) Mukherjee, Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability, Nokia, shares some key highlights from the company’s People and Planet 2023 report, covering a year of achievements and challenges on the journey to net zero, with continuing progress in its sustainability strategy. Subho explains Nokia’s firm belief that ESG can be a competitive advantage as digitalisation, powered by enhanced connectivity, plays an increasingly significant role in helping industries and economies decarbonise while enabling a more inclusive society.

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5G stands (alone) ready to be unleashed

Stephen Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, discusses the company’s 5th annual 5G outlook report, which finds that 5G Standalone (SA) market is picking up significant speed, alongside similar interest activity in terms of private 5G. Stephen offers some great insights into what’s going on in the 5G market right now and how he sees it developing over time.

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Collaboration is the key to sustainability success

Dr. Alyson Freeman; Customer & Innovation lead, Sustainability & ESG, Dell Technologies, discusses the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry and some of the ways in which the facility owners and operators are collaborating with the IT hardware manufacturers, such as Dell, to make real progress towards Net Zero.

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Dealing with IT infrastructure complexity in a hybrid cloud world

Andy Bevan, Head of Propositions and Strategy Consulting at Daisy Corporate Services, discusses recent research findings which reveal that two-thirds of IT leaders say that legacy infrastructure is creating a sustainability nightmare. Andy explores the options available for addressing this problem, with a consumption-based IT infrastructure model the likely solution.

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Equality should begin early, with education

Tal Barmeir, Co-founder & CEO Blinq.io, discusses her career in the IT industry, sharing some valuable insights when it comes to entrepreneurship and start-ups, alongside her belief that equality needs to be addressed early in life, rather than try and fix it in the workplace.

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Full speed ahead!

Zeki Turedi, Field CTO Europe, Crowdstrike, discusses the findings of the 2024 Crowdstrike Global Threat Report, with the big increase in attack velocity perhaps the most significant trend. Zeki also covers security and the cloud, the good and the bad when it comes to AI and explains how a platform approach to cybersecurity can provide the optimum solution in terms of both preventing attacks and mitigating the impact of security incidents.

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Plenty of AI excitement, but plenty of pitfalls as well?

David Williams, Acting Managing Director EMEA, Telstra International, and Kwee Chuan Yeo, Senior Editor, Asia, MIT Technology Review Insights, discuss the findings of a recent MITTR study focusing on AI. It seems that everyone wants to deploy AI, but many organisations have yet to understand or implement the IT infrastructure requirements which are a prerequisite project success.

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IT remanufacture contributes to successful sustainability strategies

Steve Haskew, Head of Sustainability and Social Leadership at Circular Computing, explains how the road to Net Zero almost certainly involves organisations considering their IT estate, especially in terms of understanding that the carbon footprint of hardware is largely associated with the manufacture, rather than the use, of the equipment. Hence IT hardware remanufacture is an increasingly attractive option - with the added bonus of significant financial savings.

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AI creates unprecedented data centre demand

Daniel Thorpe, Associate Director, Data Centre Research Lead, JLL, discusses the company’s ‘Data Centres 2024 Global Outlook Report’, which explores how data centers need to be designed, operated and sourced to meet the evolving needs of the global economy. AI, power challenges, sustainable energy and data centre locations are the main topics covered.

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The art of adopting science-based sustainability targets

Charissa Jaganath, Head of Responsible Business at Logicalis, discusses how IT organisations can become responsible businesses, encompassing the measurement and disclosure of carbon emissions across all three scopes. She also shares how she has developed the company’s global strategy to drive sustainable change across three key pillars of People, Communities, and Planet.

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Skill shortages are stifling innovation in IT, with firms focusing on talent acquisition and retention to drive future growth.
The North American data centre industry faces record-low vacancy and surging expansion into new markets. Texas is poised to surpass Virginia by 2030.
Vertiv’s new initiative supports UK businesses in upgrading power systems more sustainably while improving operational efficiency.
Barracuda Networks unveils ransomware findings; swift breaches and outdated systems are key vulnerabilities. How businesses can adapt to evolving threats.

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