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When decision-makers contemplate data-centre projects involving tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, they must have an absolutely reliable way of assessing how their installation will perform. For large organisations depending on high volume online transactions, the highest possible data processing availability becomes the dominating requirement. Such organisations typically aspire to an availability of 99.999%, often referred to as ‘Five-Nines’. Other applications, with...

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Panduit introduces SmartZone™ intelligent infrastructure management

Panduit Corp announces SmartZone™ Solutions for physical infrastructure management, which bring together Panduit intelligent appliances, gateways, software and services for the data centre and enterprise to deliver optimised monitoring and analysis of environmental and energy data at a zone level critical to your business requirements.

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Energy costs and legislation ‘threats’ to IT

The increasing cost of energy and growing environmental legislation are amongst the biggest threats to the UK IT industry according to the latest industry survey from Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited (UPSL), a Kohler company.

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