Kristoffer Axelsson

28 November 2021

Change for a sustainable future – leveraging cloud native services & common data models to reduce CO2 footprint

Earlier this month, over 200 countries gathered at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss frameworks and come forward with reductions targets that align with reaching net zero by the middle of the century. Even though one can argue that some sentences were somewhat watered down, the summit still represents a leap forward with the word “fossil” mentioned for the first time.

With some of Europe’s largest economies creating “super-ministries” collecting climate, energy and economy under the same roof, a continued strong green mandate in the European parliament following the last election in 2017 and world’s leading economies funnelling at least US$100 billion in climate finance annually starting in 2023 for e.g. accelerating the development, deployment and dissemination of technologies, adoption of policies, transition towards low-emission energy systems and rapid scaling up of energy efficiency measures, it’s clear that the quest for a more sustainable future is a train that is gaining speed and will not be turning back and it will undoubtedly mean an accelerating pace of change for all of us, businesses, organizations and societies alike, in the upcoming years and decade(s).

Even though the ongoing digitalization and digitization generates more and more data, and thus insight into behaviours, patterns, and processes, it can still be a daunting task to translate this into actual reductions in the CO2 footprint. Microsoft has been spearheading industry-specific cloud offerings lately, with new tailormade services for sectors like energy, manufacturing and finance being launched. Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability leverages a Common Data Model to unify data from across the organization such as ERP data, IoT sensor data, plant data and edge telemetry to track the carbon footprint, create tangible reports and enable operational-specific overviews. Having tried out the public preview in recent weeks I’m especially impressed by the data-driven score cards and the general focus on translating data into actions and identity where it’s possible to do more with less.

With Microsoft Ignite having completed this month as well followed by the Visual Studio conference, announcing Visual studio going 64-bit for the first time including killer features such as Hot Reload (available even when using a Linux WSL backend) and the first release of the unified .NET 6, this month has certainly been a eventful month anyone working with the Microsoft technology stack and cloud services with more to come in 2022.

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11 November 2024

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Axelsson at TechEx 2024 in Amsterdam

TechEx is a leading series of tech events, and this October saw TechEx Europe commence, focussed on the European tech scene.  The very well attended event was composed of eight collocated expos taking place within the same venue, each focussing on distinct area namely, AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud, Data Centres, Digital ... Axelsson at TechEx 2024 in Amsterdam

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20 November 2023

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Axelsson attends MSP Global 2023 conference at Nürburgring

This November saw the kick-off of the first MSP Global conference, an event where MSPs, MSSPs, and service provider, digital services reseller, and independent software vendor decision makers gathered for networking, knowledge-sharing, sales and business development strategy tips and insights and more during the two-day tech conference at the Nürburgring. Kristoffer Axelsson, Muhammad Sameer and ... Axelsson attends MSP Global 2023 conference at Nürburgring

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11 October 2023

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Revolutionizing Alarm Control with Azure IoT & LoRaWAN – Axelsson Delivers Solution for Remote Facility Alarm Management

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, our team’s latest venture marks a significant leap in facility monitoring and management. We have successfully implemented an advanced IoT Azure solution for one of our new clients in the US, transforming the way alarms and procedures are handled in real-time across various facilities, including manufacturing sites and schools. ... Revolutionizing Alarm Control with Azure IoT & LoRaWAN – Axelsson Delivers Solution for Remote Facility Alarm Management

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12 October 2021

The “Data Governance Act” will enable data-driven digital innovation by making more data available to businesses

Europe has been leading the way in recent years in data protection, data rights and data governance regulation. The General Data Protection Rights (“GDPR”) and its far-reaching implications is well known. GDPR is not a one-off though, the #europeancommission has continued to press onward with initiatives like the creation of “Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud”. Proposals like “The #open #data Directive” and “The #data Governance Act”, that was recently adopted and thus set to become national law in all #europeanunion member states soon, aims to enable #datadriven #digitalinnovation by making more data available to businesses, stimulate increased usage of APIs and facilitate cross-sector data use and sharing across sectors like #environment, health, manufacturing and energy while ensuring that companies and individuals creating the data remain in control.

The importance of managing and securing data is increasing, but many companies still have some way to go in data governance adoption. #microsoft #azure #purview is a new unified #datagovernance solution designed to help businesses and organizations managing their SaaS, on-premises and hybrid- and multicloud data. Based on the #apache Atlas API ecosystem, #purview indexes and classifies data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels into Data Maps. I especially like the Data Catalog though, with its search engine-esque look, making it very easy to filter data using business glossary terms, classifications, #sensitivity labels etc., and get a visualized overview where the found data resides, how it got there and what data has been derived from it.

#purview pricing is based on Capacity Unit and vCore hours, so anyone used at optimizing performance and cost in e.g., #azuredatafactory will feel at home. As with some of the best services out there, #purview started its life as a tool for #microsoft to enhance its own data governance, and now it’s finally GA. I can recommend any DPO, data engineer, data analyst or fellow architect alike to have a look. More info below:

Azure Purview – Unified Data Governance Solution | Microsoft Azure

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11 November 2024

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Axelsson at TechEx 2024 in Amsterdam

TechEx is a leading series of tech events, and this October saw TechEx Europe commence, focussed on the European tech scene.  The very well attended event was composed of eight collocated expos taking place within the same venue, each focussing on distinct area namely, AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud, Data Centres, Digital ... Axelsson at TechEx 2024 in Amsterdam

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20 November 2023

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Axelsson attends MSP Global 2023 conference at Nürburgring

This November saw the kick-off of the first MSP Global conference, an event where MSPs, MSSPs, and service provider, digital services reseller, and independent software vendor decision makers gathered for networking, knowledge-sharing, sales and business development strategy tips and insights and more during the two-day tech conference at the Nürburgring. Kristoffer Axelsson, Muhammad Sameer and ... Axelsson attends MSP Global 2023 conference at Nürburgring

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11 October 2023

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Revolutionizing Alarm Control with Azure IoT & LoRaWAN – Axelsson Delivers Solution for Remote Facility Alarm Management

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, our team’s latest venture marks a significant leap in facility monitoring and management. We have successfully implemented an advanced IoT Azure solution for one of our new clients in the US, transforming the way alarms and procedures are handled in real-time across various facilities, including manufacturing sites and schools. ... Revolutionizing Alarm Control with Azure IoT & LoRaWAN – Axelsson Delivers Solution for Remote Facility Alarm Management

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