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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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Yet it isn’t the tech that disrupts, it’s socio-economic change that creates conditions that a technology can exploit. Although a wide range, it suggests that airlines and hotels will have to appeal to leisure travelers to fill seats and beds. Oracle provides the cloud infrastructure that Zoom operates on.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

When a technology has its breakthrough, can often only be determined in hindsight. Answering these questions will be just as important as the effort to solve the technological challenges, and neither dogmas nor ideologies will help. Decisive is the openness of the layers and the reliable availability of the infrastructure.

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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A Does that mean the answer is to slow the growth of AI or cloud technologies more broadly? A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.”

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. As executive mandates reach technology leadership teams, your organization’s carbon reduction goals will become more tangible. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.