Sustainability

Feature "Sustainability"
Digital Responsibility & Sustainability – Call for Contributions
The digital industry is in a prime position to tackle a wide range of societal challenges. dotmagazine’s Call for Contributions on being part of the solution.

Feature "Green IT"
Driving Green Innovation in the Cloud Computing Industry
Bernd Brunner of LIMEBIRD explains in interview how cloud providers and data centers can reduce their carbon footprint in concert with renewable energy providers.

Feature "Energy Efficiency"
Using Fiber to the Edge to Cut the Carbon
Piers Benjamin illustrates how Corning saved energy and money by installing FTTE in their sustainably-built global HQ.

Feature "IoT"
How to Combat Global Warming with the Internet of Things
When the world environmental ministers gathered in Paris in 2015, we saw tears of joy. The world agreed on an ambitious goal to limit global climate change. But the plans for how the countries intend to achieve this goal remained vague, which is unfortunate. Corning’s Jochen Lorenz sees tremendous opportunity for European industry and businesses to grow with solutions that save energy.

Feature "Green IT"
Why Cooperation Enables Sustainable Digitalization
Guenter Eggers from NTT Global Data Centers looks at how energy-efficient colocation data centers and collaboration environments promote sustainability in industry.

Feature "Data Center"
Toward Green Digitalization: How Data Centers Help Create a Sustainable IT Infrastructure
To meet their own sustainability targets, businesses want digital infrastructure and services from sustainable suppliers, explains Jens-Peter Feidner from Equinix.

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Data Centers Must Become More Sustainable
Wolfgang Kaufmann from Datacenter One explains what makes data center operations energy-efficient.

Feature "Digitalization"
Digital Villages Research Project
How can innovative digital technologies help to ease the lives of people in rural areas? Learn more from Hanna von der Au’s interview with Fraunhofer Institute on the German “Digital Villages” research project

Feature "Energy Efficiency"
Green and Affordable: Reducing Electricity Costs by Archiving Data on Tape
Do you need to store data in the long-term? Then save electricity and CO2 emissions through tape technology, as recommended by Melina Schnaudt from FUJIFILM.

Feature "Data Center"
Sustainable data center: How to transform legacy data centers into sustainable assets
Severin Braun from plusserver looks at how legacy data centers can be optimized and modified to meet the EU’s sustainability targets and move towards a greener future.

Feature "Digital Transformation"
Wake-up Call from the Biosphere: Living Digitally and Sustainably in a Better World
“We need to understand digital progress for what it is: the lever to greater sustainability,” says Karl-Heinz Land, in an interview with Nils Klute of eurocloud.de.

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Tech’s Next Revolution: How the Circular Economy is Shaping the Future
In today’s rising tide of e-waste, a pathway towards sustainability is essential: As Rafael Dada from Janado explains, shifting towards a Circular Economy which embraces refurbished tech is a highly tangible strategy.

Feature "Green IT"
The “Green” Factor: Sustainable Data Centers in the Era of Digitalization
Jörgen Venot from DC-Data Center Group details the competitive advantage of “green” data centers and the options for measuring data center sustainability.

Feature "Sustainability"
How to Approach Sustainability in the Network Industry
Planning to incorporate sustainability into your business models? Pick up on tips for a framework devised by Inter.link, ranging from certification standards to monitoring software.

Feature "Smart City"
Smart Neighborhoods – Essential Building Blocks on the Way to a Smart City
Smart Neighborhoods offer a stepping stone on the path towards transformation of cities, explains Tatjana Hein from the eco Association.

Feature "Cloud Native"
Sustainable Cloud Native Software: Intelligently balancing economy and ecology
Nils Klute talks to Marc Schröter, globaldatanet, and Sebastian Ullrich, PROTOS Technologie, about how cloud native technology makes IT more sustainable.

Feature "Domains"
Sustainability Reporting: dotBERLIN’s Journey to More Sustainability
Dirk Krischenowski from dotBERLIN takes us through the steps in assessing company sustainability, taking action & developing a roadmap to become a wholly sustainable company by 2025.

Feature "Artificial Intelligence"
From AI to the circular economy: How digital technologies redefine sustainable value creation
How artificial intelligence, data and Gaia-X are weeding, securing harvests and implementing the circular economy. Nils Klute reports.

Feature "Cloud Native"
More Sustainable with Cloud: Economies of Scale for the Environment and Climate
What can be the key to more sustainability? Cloud technologies, spells out Nils Klute from EuroCloud Germany.

Feature "Sustainability"
Port Breakout and VSFFC: Optimizing Sustainability in Data Centers
Cindy Ryborz from Corning Optical Communications, on supporting higher speeds, compressing computing power, storage and data throughput, and improving energy efficiency.

Feature "Sustainability"
The Greenest Registry in Europe
You don’t think you can make a difference? Giovanni Seppia from EURid demonstrates how every step counts when it comes to corporate sustainability.

Feature "Data Center"
What a “Green” Data Center Does To Save Energy
While a major consumer of energy, the data center industry is foremost in energy efficiency and are a greener option for corporate IT. BIT’s Alex Bik gives examples.

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Hosting in the Wind Turbine
Hanna von der Au from eco reports on the climate-neutral television of the future, empowered by Zattoo via the windCORES project of WestfalenWIND.

Feature "Data Center"
Shining a Light on Sustainable Heat & Energy – A Data Center Perspective
Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse and the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures looks at the opportunities for data centers to contribute to a green future.
Industry Insights "Data Center"
Sustainability Reporting: dotBERLIN’s Journey to More Sustainability
Wake-up Call from the Biosphere: Living Digitally and Sustainably in a Better World
Toward Green Digitalization: How Data Centers Help Create a Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Why Cooperation Enables Sustainable Digitalization
Driving Green Innovation in the Cloud Computing Industry

Feature "Data Center"
Digital Waste Heat – Overcoming Mismatches in Creation and Consumption
Dr. Béla Waldhauser, CEO of Telehouse Deutschland & Spokesperson for the eco Alliance for Digital Infrastructures, on cooling data centers & heating homes.
Industry Insights "Data Center"
Secure and 100% Green Data Center and Cloud Services from Central Europe
The “Green” Factor: Sustainable Data Centers in the Era of Digitalization
Case Study: Data Center Efficiency – How AI Can Help Optimize Data Center Cooling
Power to Data – Data to Heat: New Business Opportunities for Energy Suppliers

Feature "Renewable Energy"
Blackouts, Renewable Energy, and Powering IT Reliably
Volatile renewable energy is increasingly important for national and internationally connected power grids, but, according to Judith Ellis, care is needed to provide stable power for critical infrastructure and sensitive IT processes.
Industry Insights "Renewable Energy"
Innovative Approaches to Energy Efficiency in Data Centers
A UPS Solution with Kinetic Energy

Feature "Diversity"
Workplace Sustainability Requires More Women in Tech
For a sustainability agenda, a culture of diversity is indispensable, reports Eilín Geraghty from the eco Association. So, how can companies develop this culture?
Industry Insights "Diversity"
The Greenest Registry in Europe

Feature "Smart City"
The Carbon-Neutral Transformation to Smart Cities
Co-author of the new eco study “The Smart City Market in Germany 2021-2026” Lars Riegel from ADL explains the environmental benefits of the Smart City.
Industry Insights "Smart City"
Smart Neighborhoods – Essential Building Blocks on the Way to a Smart City

Feature "Green IT"
Reducing the Bill for Powering the Digital Economy
For both the environment and company OPEX, power consumption cannot increase at the same speed as computing power. Judith Ellis explores what data center operators and company IT professionals can do to create efficiencies.

Feature "Digitalization"
Striking the Right Balance for Digitalization
The advantages of digital technology in the fight against climate change outweigh the costs, says MEP Tiemo Wölken.
Industry Insights "Digitalization"
Interconnection Demand Surges as the Pandemic Accelerates Digital Transformation

Feature "Digitalization"
Industry as a Driver for the Digitalization of the European Economy?
Why the “old economy” is driving the digital transformation in the Old World, reveals Ernst Stöckl-Pukall, German Economics Ministry, in an interview with Andreas Weiss and Thomas Sprenger, GXFS-DE.
Industry Insights "Digitalization"
IRMA: How Digital Wallets Contribute to Digital Sustainability
Is the Internet Fragmenting or Just Evolving?

Feature "Sustainability"
Energy Transition and Internet Expansion Go Hand in Hand
Harald A. Summa from the eco Association, on how the decentralized design of the Internet offers a blueprint for the restructuring of energy supply.