Today’s economy is powered by digital infrastructure. Digital infrastructure must be as efficient and clean as possible to guarantee that today’s digital firms can operate sustainably for many years.

At UnitedLayer®, we are conscious that our customers rely on us as partners in their sustainability strategy. This motivated us to make a global climate-neutral pledge for our infrastructure by 2030 and to cut emissions throughout our operations and supply chain.

We have met several milestones aligned with the key pillars discussed below. In this blog, we’ll cover just a few of the many innovations we’re pursuing to make our data centers cleaner and more efficient.

According to Statista, “Given its high energy demand, 45% of total IT carbon footprint is caused by data centers across the globe.” 

Principles driving a Sustainable Data Center:

• Low-carbon energy
• Using Digital Tools
• Software-optimized and automated
• High-efficiency cooling.

Low-carbon energy helps us scale data volumes without increasing emissions

While increasing the data centers‘ energy efficiency is a primary focus, we understand that energy use is unavoidable. We have set a goal of using only renewable energy in all our data centers worldwide. By achieving this, we will help our customers’ digital supply chains become greener and reduce our carbon impact.

Use digital tools available to optimize operations

With the introduction of the smart grid, the grid has become more autonomous, giving rise to peer-to-peer networks to facilitate energy flow and prevent disturbance. Digital technologies, such as digital substations for larger data centers, utility, and industrial use, are available to support protection and control requirements. Furthermore, digital asset management platforms can help data center operators evaluate the relative health of their essential power components, allowing them to shift away from planned maintenance or break/fix schemes and toward more proactive and predictive maintenance techniques.

Working smarter toward greater efficiency with software optimization

Using our UnityOneCloud tool, you can track and optimize the data center device’s carbon emissions and energy consumption with remote data center management functionalities. You can also reduce carbon emissions by optimizing the power required by the devices in the data center.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have become essential IT future-proofing concerns, much like sustainability plans. It only makes sense to employ sustainability and AI/ML since both are crucial to the future of IT. Automated data centers can utilize AI algorithms to collect essential data, analyze it to forecast sustainability indicators under various conditions, and adjust operations as necessary. These algorithms can also be used to automate power-aware workload orchestration, which balances power demand and schedules workloads according to the availability of renewable energy.

High-efficiency cooling helps limit energy waste

GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE UNITEDLAYER® SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

We have barely touched the surface of UnitedLayer’s® sustainability narrative in this blog. We’re proud of our advancements, but we’re not about to stop anytime soon. The story is being written every day.

We help enterprises get complete visibility and transparency of their carbon footprints and map their journey toward sustainability. To date, we have transformed a few hundred customers into achieving net zero carbon emissions, and the count is increasing daily. Our robust solutions, such as carbon-neutral recommendation engines, cognitive carbon analysis, dashboards, and reports, have already benefitted our customers in reducing their global carbon footprints.

To learn more about our product and services, click here!

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Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership Trust is an Invitation-Only Community for Top Business Decision Makers in the Silicon Valley

San Francisco, CA – October 2022 – Abhijit Phanse, CEO of UnitedLayer® is now a member of the Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership Trust, an exclusive community for influential business leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

Abhijit was chosen for membership by the Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership
Trust Selection Committee due to his experience, leadership, and influence in the
local business landscape and beyond. Abhijit has led companies to significant profitable growth, with UnitedLayer® being one of them. He has a proven track record of successfully executing business plans in technology-intensive industries.

“The Silicon Valley’s thriving business community is powered by leaders like Abhijit,”
said Mary Huss, president, and publisher of the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times.

“We’re honored to create a space where the region’s business influencers come together to increase their impact on the community, build their businesses and connect with and strengthen one another.”

With the involvement in the Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership Trust Committee, Abhijit would share his industry expertise and ideas with a massive business leadership network and inspire future leaders. It also gives UnitedLayer® a spotlight to thrive and find new growth strategies.

“I feel honored to be a part of the Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership, where I can learn and share experience with my fellow members. Also, I am thankful to Silicon Valley for inviting me to join the elite council,” said CEO – Abhijit Phanse.

“At UnitedLayer®, we have had the opportunity to deliver industry-leading hybrid cloud solutions globally for the past two decades. We have been pioneers in developing software-defined private, edge, multicloud architecture, unified multicloud management, and a globally interconnected network and data center fabric. We are excited to contribute to this fast-evolving space.”

The Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership Trust team is honored to welcome Abhijit to the community and looks forward to helping him elevate his personal brand, strengthen his circle of trusted advisors, and position him to further impact the Silicon Valley business community beyond.

About Business Journals Leadership Trust

Silicon Valley Business Journal Leadership Trust is a collective of invitation-only networks of influential business leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs in your community. Membership is based on an application and selection committee review. Benefits include private online forums, the ability to publish insights on bizjournals.com, business, and executive coaching, and a dedicated concierge team. To learn more and find out if you qualify, visit trust.bizjournals.com.

About UnitedLayer®:

UnitedLayer® is the leading Hybrid Cloud provider offering Colocation, Private Cloud IaaS, Managed Cloud Services, and Multicloud Management solutions. UnitedLaye® was established in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its key industries include Technology, Banking, and Finance industries, Public Sector, Healthcare, Retail, Logistics, and Oil & Gas. It serves clients globally with its 100+ data center footprints in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. For more information, visit: www.unitedlayer.com

Discord experienced outages on Tuesday, according to various user reports, social media accounts, and the website Down Detector. Discord’s outage began around 12 p.m. EST, causing disruptions on the popular chat app.

To fix this problem, Discord officials said that “We are aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix”.

A thorough investigation from Discord started for the “API Errors and Push Notification Errors” at 12:16 p.m. EST and efforts were taken to find and remediate the issues. The incident report stated that a “root cause was also found in their streaming service” at 1:08 p.m. EST, involving a controlled restart, which would have resulted in a “brief disruption of streaming, which leads to the outage.”

Discord has already experienced multiple outages in 2022. This includes one as recently as February and a two-hour outage in January, which prevented users from joining calls or using chat functions. According to “USA Today,” Discord also experienced a major outage earlier in November 2021, along with Spotify, Snapchat, and Etsy, all affected by Google Cloud issues.

Here, in the case of Discord, they could have mitigated this issue if they had hosted their infrastructure on a private cloud. The reason is private clouds such as our G3 private cloud gives them greater control, visibility, and guaranteed up-time of 99.999% as compared to public clouds, which offer an uptime of 99.95%. Also, our G3 private cloud users get control to set up and manage Routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, PDU, WAN configuration, traffic engineering, BGP, security, DDoS mitigation, monitoring, alerting, and WAN optimization for guaranteed performance. Our users can observe and analyze the status of their devices, health, and performance for complete visibility of their infrastructure. This gives them an edge to mitigate issues quickly and not get stuck in vendor lock-ins, similar to what happened previously in the case of discord.

How Unitedlayer® can help you?

UnitedLayer® offers its users enterprise-grade G3 private cloud solutions where customers can host their application on dedicated private cloud servers powered by OpenStack, VMware, Hyper-V. It comes with all benefits of cloud computing with greater control and security of the enterprise-grade private cloud.

• We guarantee the availability of 99.999% with N+M clusters
• We offer fully flexible vCPU and RAM size configurations without lock-in on specific VM types, along with adaptive resizing.
• We provide high performance compute through all-flash storage ranging from 1K- 100K+ IOPS on 10g/40g/100g network fabric infrastructure.  

On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, the entire world witnessed their favorite music app: Spotify, unresponsive. It was not a mere internet connection error but a major outage that inconvenienced the global music enthusiasts. This outage logged users out of their accounts without the ability to log in again or reset the password. It appeared to occur sometime around 1:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Data from downdetector.co.uk suggested that more than 72,000 problematic reports came in with the music streaming service in just an hour. For tracks that have already been synchronized with a user’s Android or iOS device, the issue does not occur. Whereas users who try to play any music they’ve recently played on the app are experiencing a persistent outage.

Spotify users were logged out and prompted to log in. Upon entering the user’s email address, the music streaming platform didn’t recognize the email address associated with the account. According to a few sources, the issue raised was majorly due to mismanagement of traffic handling on servers they are hosted on. What could Spotify have done to overcome this issue?

The one solution can be a reliable private cloud solution provider because public clouds come with a SLA of 99.95% uptime, whereas our G3 private cloud comes with guaranteed 99.999% uptime, and we achieve this by enabling next-generation firewalls (NGFW) with automated network mapping and automated firewall change policy monitoring to adapt for workloads. We also optimize load balancing for our customers based on traffic by distributing incoming traffic for peak performance, bypassing any failed server, and increasing scalability by adding more servers so that our customers always be sure they are on the business line, unlike what happened in the case of Spotify.

After numerous reports, finally, Spotify tweeted.

As per the CEO of Cloudflare, the online outage that affected Spotify, Discord, Wikipedia, and other Internet companies appeared to be a Google Cloud malfunction.

How UnitedLayer® Can Help You?   

UnitedLayer® offers its users enterprise-grade G3 private cloud solutions where customers can host their application on dedicated private cloud servers powered by OpenStack, VMware, Hyper-V. It comes with all benefits of cloud computing with greater control and security of the enterprise-grade private cloud.  

• We guarantee the availability of 99.999% with N+M clusters.  
• We offer fully flexible vCPU and RAM size configurations without lock-in on specific VM types, along with adaptive resizing.  
• We provide high-performance compute through all-flash storage ranging from 1K- 100K+ IOPS on 10g/40g/100g network fabric infrastructure.