Technology Magazine March 2022 | Page 196

“ Two of our key strategic priorities which are highly interconnected is about taking leadership for customer experience and delivering everythingas-a-service ”

JAKOB HØJLAND COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR , CLOUD SERVICES , SIMCORP
• Applying modern computing to improve overall energy footprint and utilise digital resources in optimised ways .
• Reducing air travel and increasing virtual meetings to reduce carbon emissions .
To support the first point outlined , in 2019 , SimCorp started decommissioning its own data centres as part of a cloud transition to Microsoft Azure and OCI .
“ Microsoft ’ s public cloud services have been operating 100 % carbon neutral since 2012 by applying a global internal carbon fee model that charges Microsoft business units for carbon emissions from their operations . Microsoft has pledged to reduce its operational carbon emissions by 75 % by 2030 , against a 2013 baseline ,
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