Aknostic

In this meetup hosted by Aknostic, we will be diving into some of our favorite subjects: Clouds of Europe, EKS clusters, and Security Compliance.

The meetup will start at 17:30 with some snacks and drinks, so everyone can get to know each other.

At 18:15, we will start our program with 3 sessions (around 20 min each). We will be wrapping up the event with pizzas and beers, so you have time to enjoy discussions while eating pizzas.

We will have 3 talks on our agenda:
- First talk: Building the Clouds of Europe, one cloud at a time.
- Second talk: Managing dozens of EKS clusters the Gitops way
- Third talk - Setting up a CI/CD pipeline solution for a client's use case

Register here: https://aknostic.com/meetup-aknostic/

On September 16 we are inviting the Dutch Tech & IT community to an in-person workshop & knowledge-sharing sessions on measuring the environmental impact of digital products and applications.

We believe the key to reducing the environmental impact of the digital ecosystem is to make it transparent to the user of an application - to raise awareness of the environmental costs of their digital usage.

Join us !

Are you a data center user, manufacturer, operator or recycler? Are you using or requesting a data hosting provider?

This free online training program will help you design, choose and better recycle computer storage systems to make them more sustainable. This session will also allow you to assess the potential for reusing, recycling and extending the life of computer servers.

This online session is scheduled for the 20th of June at 10:00 AM CET and you can register through this link.

We will dive into the following key topics:

• Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
• CDCC (Circular Data Centre Compass) – an online tool designed to assist SMEs in IT (design/procurement/end-of-life) decision making
• Break-out session to discuss recycling, product life extension and Ecodesign

This training is in English and is free, organised as part of the CEDaCI project (Circular Economy for the Data Center Industry). The project aims to suggest ways to improve the recycling, reuse and eco-design of computer servers.

More information about the training sessions can be found here.

We proudly invite you to the EV Energy Final Conference happening on 12 May 2021 from 9:30 am - 11:30 am online.

Over four years of project implementation. It's been a long and exciting journey for all of us. Along the way we have been able to share our experience, learn from each other and implement successful practices in our regions.

Our final conference presents how practical experiences and regional policy incentives were shared and led to new insights, policy recommendations and running action.

Cities and regions are on the path towards clean mobility, made possible by local renewable energy. We present 5 EU-cities and regions (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Kaunas, Rome and Stockholm), which have been actively collaborating in transition efforts, sharing learnings from policy making, planning and implementation. Although the stages of development vary between these cities, this collaboration has been very fruitful and inspirational.

The event is dedicated to policy makers, project teams, CPO’s, energy companies and local initiatives aimed at adopting renewable energy as a pillar in their future actions.

As an alternative source of energy, hydrogen plays a major role in the future plans of the European Commission. Since datacenters are estimated to have the fastest growing carbon footprint across the whole ICT sector, if they rely on diesel generators, fuel cells could be a sustainable substitute.

Within the Roadmap and the Innovation Lab departments, the SDIA - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. wants to elaborate on the viability of hydrogen fuel cells as back up power for data centers, in order to replace diesel generators.

To guarantee the success of this project, we are looking for partners and experts who want to join us on the journey. Feel free to reach out to us!

https://sdialliance.org/roadmap

AMSTERDAM, 21 JANUARY 2021 - Green IT Amsterdam and Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance are joining forces.

Both organisations have a strong focus on making the digital infrastructure more sustainable. Together they want to initiate or join innovation projects focused on sustainability. Additionally both organisations will work together to make the knowledge and technology they develop commercially available to the market as quickly as possible. For example by creating startups that develop and sell software, cloud services and other tools that can be used by data centres and others to green their digital infrastructure.

** Converting data centres in energy flexibility ecosystems **

The CATALYST Webinar Series will run for 4 weeks from the 29th July through to the 19th August and cover some exciting topics:

CATALYST aspires to turn data centres into flexible multi-energy hubs, which can sustain investments in renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.

Leveraging on results of past projects, CATALYST has adapted, scaled up, deployed and validated an innovative technological and business framework that enables data centres to offer a range of mutualized energy flexibility services to both electricity and heat grids, while simultaneously increasing their own resiliency to energy supply.

This webinar series provides further information on the:

CATALYST DC Manager (TUC) 29th July @2pm
CATALYST Marketplace (ENG, SiLO, POPs) 5th August @2pm
CATALYST Pilots (PSNC) 12th August @2pm
Green Data Centre Roadmap and Assessment Toolbox (GIT) 19th August @ 2pm

https://project-catalyst.eu/

The CEDaCI project launches an online survey on refurbishment of ICT equipment. The questionnaire can be found in the link below.

The CEDaCI project is building a circular economy for the data center industry. The project, funded by the European Union, is developing circular solutions to reduce the environmental impact of the IT equipment used by the data center industry (DCI).

All important findings and results of the CEDaCI project will be made public at www.cedaci.org to help DCI on its way to circularity.