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Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are calling on communications regulator Ofcom to hold off on getting the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe the UK cloud infrastructure services market for proof of anti-competitive behaviour, it has emerged.
Ofcom has published in full the responses...
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Enterprises are under pressure, or even mandated, to incorporate either Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directives (CSRD) or Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) into their regulatory landscape. In the alphabet soup of this domain, the SECR, TCFD and ESOS will soon be unified in the SDR (Sustainable...
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Schneider Electric has entered into exclusive negotiations with Atos Group about acquiring its environmental consultancy arm, EcoAct, as part of the energy management firm’s ongoing push to build out its sustainability expertise.
Head-quartered in Europe and founded in France in 2006, EcoAct bills itself as an...
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Enterprise sustainability practices are coming under close scrutiny from clients, consumers, governments, and regulators. IT companies, and organisations with IT estates, should be proactive to ensure their sustainability, environmental reporting and climate action practices hold up.
For greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting in particular, those responsible...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could boost the UK economy to the tune of £400bn by the year 2030 by making people more productive in their day jobs and opening up new career paths to them.
That’s according to Google’s Economic impact report, which was compiled by...
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Digital infrastructure operations face increased scrutiny by local, national, and transnational authorities on financial and operational fronts. Financial reporting requirements are being expanded to include climate disclosure requirements - reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction goals and the financial implications of risks and opportunities...
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ESG is everyone’s favourite new acronym, working as a catch-them-all for climate action, worker rights, social responsibility, and energy efficiency, among other things.
For many, ESG invokes vague notions of eco-friendliness and for others it may indicate measures for net-zero or human rights compliance. ESG...
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NHS England has signed a five-year deal that will see the Microsoft 365 cloud-based online productivity suite of services rolled out to 1.5 million health service staff.
The delivery contract for the deal has been awarded to Bytes Software Services, and will enable NHS England staff...
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Software-defined storage promises enterprises much greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments.
By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day software management, and abstracting them from hardware, customers can run their storage on commodity servers and expansion shelves.
That, at...
