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SDIA’s European Summit in Berlin Invites Software Developers to Advance Green Coding and Sustainable Software

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SDIA’s European Summit in Berlin Invites Software Developers to Advance Green Coding and Sustainable Software

SDIA’s European Summit in Berlin Invites Software Developers to Advance Green Coding and Sustainable Software

The SDIA’s green coding summit provides a path to a sustainable digital future.

“As the digital sector stands at a pivotal crossroad between digital transformation and environmental sustainability, the SDIA is delighted to host a Summit to chart a path toward a digital future that is not only innovative, but also sustainable.” Max Schulze, SDIA’s Executive Chairman

The inaugural SDIA Green Coding Summit 2023 will bring together leading green coding expertise, communities, organizations, researchers, and software developers on 23-24 November 2023 in Berlin at the iconic Französischer Dom (French Dome) in the heart of Berlin, to reduce the environmental impact of software through open, transparent knowledge and showcasing the latest tools.

The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) will deliver independent, content-rich presentations, keynotes, panels and debates with invited speakers from internationally renowned organizations such as Mozilla, Intel, Thoughtworks, Lufthansa Industry Solutions and ABN AMRO.

Organizations and software communities across Europe and globally have begun to recognize the environmental impact created by digital products and services. Yet quantifying and reducing those impacts remains challenging. Key to this is understanding the future impact for society, the environment, and lessening any potential rebound effects.

The two-day Summit, co-hosted by Umweltbundesamt – German Environment Agency and financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, will build a roadmap to facilitate the wider adoption of green coding practices. 

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Knowledge, Debate and Insights

The Summit Conference will welcome software developers, engineers, researchers and IT leaders to product managers, sustainability leads, directors and policymakers.

Opening remarks will be given by Dr. Franziska Brantner (pre-recorded), the German Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. 

Knowledge Expansion

Learn from international thought leaders about their insights, experiences, and real-world applications in green coding. The main conference will explore the essence of green coding, its true environmental impact beyond carbon, and the future implications. The agenda will look at the incentives to invest in resource efficient software, and debate how regional and national governments can be instrumental in creating positive change.

Max Körbächer, Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board Member and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador advocates for the breadth of open knowledge sharing at the Summit: “IT Sustainability is complex in its nature, placed in between multiple layers, where each of those is a challenge itself. Developing green software and understanding the foundation of green code is the entry point to be able to master all other layers in a sustainable and effective way.” 

Learn, Connect & Code

Following a day of knowledge sharing, delegates will have an opportunity to get coding at the Summit Bootcamp, hosted in partnership with Green Coding Berlin, The Green Web Foundation, and Boavizta at the historic Neue Mälzerei (New Malt House).

Bootcamp Deep Dives: Software developers are invited to roll up their sleeves and join leading European green coding experts for deep-dive sessions designed to empower software developers to create more sustainable digital products and services. These workshops will provide hands-on experience with tools and best practices, allowing participants to measure the environmental impact of their software projects and understand how to improve them.

The various sessions will feature sustainable and CO2 aware web development, energy measurement and software optimization for backend applications. In addition, exploring tools to provide insights into the environmental impact of desktop and server hardware.

This is a unique opportunity to connect with green coding and sustainable software communities. Meet and engage with maintainers, contributors, researchers, and other stakeholders. 

The Future of Green Coding

The Summit’s vision by bringing leading minds together is to create an Annual Green Coding Roadmap, and to disseminate further knowledge and solutions through Quarterly Community Summits.

The Green Coding Roadmap will focus on establishing a clear regulatory framework, sharing knowledge and highlighting the benefits for coders to measure, report and improve the environmental impact of software — sharing best practices that have been tested in real-world scenarios.

The SDIA Green Coding Summit 2023 will build on two previous Hackathons in Berlin, and the SoftAWERE (Software Architecture Tools for Energy Efficient and Resource Saving Development) project. An initiative to reduce the environmental impact of software, and exemplify how green coding can make a difference.

In a society that is increasingly dependent on digital products, the future of green coding is the foundation of a sustainable future. 

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Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3

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AWS re:Invent, which has been taking place from November 27 and runs to December 1, has had its usual plethora of announcements: a total of 21 at time of print.

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has been on the AI side for AWS’ announcements, including a major partnership inked with NVIDIA across infrastructure, software, and services.

Yet there has been plenty more announced at the Las Vegas jamboree besides. Here, CloudTech rounds up the best of the rest:

Next-generation chips

This was the other major AI-focused announcement at re:Invent: the launch of two new chips, AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2, for training and running AI and machine learning (ML) models, among other customer workloads. Graviton4 shapes up against its predecessor with 30% better compute performance, 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth, while Trainium2 delivers up to four times faster training than before and will be able to be deployed in EC2 UltraClusters of up to 100,000 chips.

The EC2 UltraClusters are designed to ‘deliver the highest performance, most energy efficient AI model training infrastructure in the cloud’, as AWS puts it. With it, customers will be able to train large language models in ‘a fraction of the time’, as well as double energy efficiency.

As ever, AWS offers customers who are already utilising these tools. Databricks, Epic and SAP are among the companies cited as using the new AWS-designed chips.

Zero-ETL integrations

AWS announced new Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for MySQL integrations with Amazon Redshift, AWS’ cloud data warehouse. The zero-ETL integrations – eliminating the need to build ETL (extract, transform, load) data pipelines – make it easier to connect and analyse transactional data across various relational and non-relational databases in Amazon Redshift.

A simple example of how zero-ETL functions can be seen is in a hypothetical company which stores transactional data – time of transaction, items bought, where the transaction occurred – in a relational database, but use another analytics tool to analyse data in a non-relational database. To connect it all up, companies would previously have to construct ETL data pipelines which are a time and money sink.

The latest integrations “build on AWS’s zero-ETL foundation… so customers can quickly and easily connect all of their data, no matter where it lives,” the company said.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new storage class purpose-built for customers’ most frequently-accessed data. Data access speed is up to 10 times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than standard S3. Companies can also opt to collocate their Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same availability zone as their compute resources.  

Companies and partners who are using Amazon S3 Express One Zone include ChaosSearch, Cloudera, and Pinterest.

Amazon Q

A new product, and an interesting pivot, again with generative AI at its core. Amazon Q was announced as a ‘new type of generative AI-powered assistant’ which can be tailored to a customer’s business. “Customers can get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, generate content, and take actions – all informed by a customer’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems,” AWS added. The service also can assist companies building on AWS, as well as companies using AWS applications for business intelligence, contact centres, and supply chain management.

Customers cited as early adopters include Accenture, BMW and Wunderkind.

Want to learn more about cybersecurity and the cloud from industry leaders? Check out Cyber Security & Cloud Expo taking place in Amsterdam, California, and London. Explore other upcoming enterprise technology events and webinars powered by TechForge here.

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HCLTech and Cisco create collaborative hybrid workplaces

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Digital comms specialist Cisco and global tech firm HCLTech have teamed up to launch Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS).

Available on a subscription model, this solution modernises legacy meeting rooms and enables users to join meetings from any meeting solution provider using Webex devices.

The MRaaS solution helps enterprises simplify the design, implementation and maintenance of integrated meeting rooms, enabling seamless collaboration for their globally distributed hybrid workforces.

Rakshit Ghura, senior VP and Global head of digital workplace services, HCLTech, said: “MRaaS combines our consulting and managed services expertise with Cisco’s proficiency in Webex devices to change the way employees conceptualise, organise and interact in a collaborative environment for a modern hybrid work model.

“The common vision of our partnership is to elevate the collaboration experience at work and drive productivity through modern meeting rooms.”

Alexandra Zagury, VP of partner managed and as-a-Service Sales at Cisco, said: “Our partnership with HCLTech helps our clients transform their offices through cost-effective managed services that support the ongoing evolution of workspaces.

“As we reimagine the modern office, we are making it easier to support collaboration and productivity among workers, whether they are in the office or elsewhere.”

Cisco’s Webex collaboration devices harness the power of artificial intelligence to offer intuitive, seamless collaboration experiences, enabling meeting rooms with smart features such as meeting zones, intelligent people framing, optimised attendee audio and background noise removal, among others.

Want to learn more about cybersecurity and the cloud from industry leaders? Check out Cyber Security & Cloud Expo taking place in Amsterdam, California, and London. Explore other upcoming enterprise technology events and webinars powered by TechForge here.

Tags: Cisco, collaboration, HCLTech, Hybrid, meetings

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Canonical releases low-touch private cloud MicroCloud

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Canonical has announced the general availability of MicroCloud, a low-touch, open source cloud solution. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s growing cloud infrastructure portfolio.

It is purpose-built for scalable clusters and edge deployments for all types of enterprises. It is designed with simplicity, security and automation in mind, minimising the time and effort to both deploy and maintain it. Conveniently, enterprise support for MicroCloud is offered as part of Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro subscription, with several support tiers available, and priced per node.

MicroClouds are optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments. A single command initiates the orchestration and clustering of various components with minimal involvement by the user, resulting in a fully functional cloud within minutes. This simplified deployment process significantly reduces the barrier to entry, putting a production-grade cloud at everyone’s fingertips.

Juan Manuel Ventura, head of architectures & technologies at Spindox, said: “Cloud computing is not only about technology, it’s the beating heart of any modern industrial transformation, driving agility and innovation. Our mission is to provide our customers with the most effective ways to innovate and bring value; having a complexity-free cloud infrastructure is one important piece of that puzzle. With MicroCloud, the focus shifts away from struggling with cloud operations to solving real business challenges” says

In addition to seamless deployment, MicroCloud prioritises security and ease of maintenance. All MicroCloud components are built with strict confinement for increased security, with over-the-air transactional updates that preserve data and roll back on errors automatically. Upgrades to newer versions are handled automatically and without downtime, with the mechanisms to hold or schedule them as needed.

With this approach, MicroCloud caters to both on-premise clouds but also edge deployments at remote locations, allowing organisations to use the same infrastructure primitives and services wherever they are needed. It is suitable for business-in-branch office locations or industrial use inside a factory, as well as distributed locations where the focus is on replicability and unattended operations.

Cedric Gegout, VP of product at Canonical, said: “As data becomes more distributed, the infrastructure has to follow. Cloud computing is now distributed, spanning across data centres, far and near edge computing appliances. MicroCloud is our answer to that.

“By packaging known infrastructure primitives in a portable and unattended way, we are delivering a simpler, more prescriptive cloud experience that makes zero-ops a reality for many Industries.“

MicroCloud’s lightweight architecture makes it usable on both commodity and high-end hardware, with several ways to further reduce its footprint depending on your workload needs. In addition to the standard Ubuntu Server or Desktop, MicroClouds can be run on Ubuntu Core – a lightweight OS optimised for the edge. With Ubuntu Core, MicroClouds are a perfect solution for far-edge locations with limited computing capabilities. Users can choose to run their workloads using Kubernetes or via system containers. System containers based on LXD behave similarly to traditional VMs but consume fewer resources while providing bare-metal performance.

Coupled with Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro + Support subscription, MicroCloud users can benefit from an enterprise-grade open source cloud solution that is fully supported and with better economics. An Ubuntu Pro subscription offers security maintenance for the broadest collection of open-source software available from a single vendor today. It covers over 30k packages with a consistent security maintenance commitment, and additional features such as kernel livepatch, systems management at scale, certified compliance and hardening profiles enabling easy adoption for enterprises. With per-node pricing and no hidden fees, customers can rest assured that their environment is secure and supported without the expensive price tag typically associated with cloud solutions.

Want to learn more about cybersecurity and the cloud from industry leaders? Check out Cyber Security & Cloud Expo taking place in Amsterdam, California, and London. Explore other upcoming enterprise technology events and webinars powered by TechForge here.

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