Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns

Sustainability Resources:

Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future

What is Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability? | Microsoft Learn

Calculating My Carbon Footprint - Microsoft Sustainability

Sustainability workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn

Green Software Foundation | GSF

Azure Update Links:

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks to Conor Kelly about how Microsoft is investing in sustainable energy – not only to power the Cloud, but also to advance the technology as a whole.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode356.mp3

Resources:

Azure Sustainability - Azure Sustainability—Sustainable Technologies | Microsoft Azure
SSE Airtricity project - Microsoft demonstrates how to increase green energy in Ireland one rooftop at a time | Innovation Stories
Azure IoT for Energy - IoT for Energy | Microsoft Azure

Other resources:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-sap-hana-certified-memoryoptimized-virtual-machines-now-available

SAP On Azure book by Ravi Kashyap https://www.sap-press.com/sap-on-microsoft-azure_5174/