The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has defined three scopes to categorize the different kinds of emissions created across an organization’s wider value chain, including its suppliers and customers.
I encourage everyone reading this to practice in all aspects of both their personal and professional lives — practice being healthy, kind, understanding, empathetic, resourceful, etc. But, I'd also like to challenge you to practice being more sustainable.
Physical security has come a long way in our industry. Sometimes I miss the ritual of signing in on the clipboard and chatting with Phil about the weather. I’m old-fashioned that way, but even my nostalgic self can’t help but admire the progress we’re making in this field and how much it is contributing to securing critical IT assets.
Bitcoin mining is regularly painted in a poor light in the media. This should be an alarm bell for the broader data center industry. Why? Because the issues raised aren’t specific to crypto.
Keeping your research and development (R&D) efforts running smoothly depends on a lot of things — teams working in unison, processes being streamlined, errors being reduced, and data remaining accessible.
The downside of rushing headlong into an endeavor is the heightened potential for running full speed into missteps that would have been apparent had we taken the time upfront to guard against them.