Digitalisation World

Building a modern data centre by the book

Published in BC/DR DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Flash Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Management Power & Cooling Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

Three award-winning authors and technologists have published a new book, Building a Modern Data Center: Principles and Strategies of Design, that provides practical advice on how to use new technologies such as hyperconvergence, software-defined data centres and the cloud to meet the business...

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Modular offering increases visibility and control over power and cooling capacity and enhances remote management capabilities.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

2016 will see expansion into cloud interconnection.

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ICTroom expands modular data centre portfolio

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Hardware

Launches new technical support services.

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Finnish city using Yandex data centres to heat its hot water

M?nts?l? to halve gas consumption, reduce C02 emissions by 40% and cut heating costs by 5% by...

The impact of raising data centre temperatures

Raising IT inlet temperatures to improve data centre efficiency might not produce the desired...

Modular DCs: It can be the answer, but take the right approach

Chris Wellfair, Projects Director at Secure I.T. Environments, gives his view on...

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EMEA Big Data data centre infrastructure market to triple by 2019

International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big...

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Nearly half of European data centres have no energy efficiency objectives in place

Research, commissioned by The Green Grid, has found that while the majority of organisations...

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G?ANT deploys Infinera Cloud Xpress with 100 GbE for data centre interconnect

G?ANT, Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research...

NGD turns to npower for 100 per cent renewable supply

Next Generation Data has appointed npower Business Solutions as its new energy supplier and...

Manchester-based Datacentreplus launches “Pay-as-you-grow” hosting

Supports small business growth through flexible solutions.

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Tier 3 certification for Fortis Phase 1

Datavita, a new Scottish business is operating from Fortis, Scotland’s new next generation green...

Raritan introduces high-performance IP user station

Raritan has introduced an IP User Station for the Dominion® KX III digital KVM switch. ...

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Data centre cleaning specialist sees hike in emergency cleans

Data centres are running the risk of power outages and losing critical data by not planning...

110MW microgrid developed for Dublin data centre

Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK, discusses the launch of what is believed to be Europe’s first, large-scale, 110 MW on-site microgrid, developed to support early phase site operational resilience. Located within...

Why 24/7 IT defence is no longer just a ‘Nice-To-Have’ for SMBs

Nirav Shah, Founder & Director of Technical Excellence at Infrassist, explains that 24x7 IT monitoring and defence is essential for SMBs as an often distributed workforce needs protection around the clock, not...

Community collaboration and transparency - key to data centre success in the AI era

Edgar Van Essen, Managing Director, CCO and Partner for Switch Datacenters, outlines a dramatic decline in water use, new cooperative stakeholder models including green residual heat exchange networks, and a...

More tech, less productivity - what’s going wrong?

Ofir Bloch, VP at WalkMe, discusses the results of WalkMe’s fifth annual State of Digital Adoption report, which reveals that over half (54%) of workers bypassed AI tools and completed tasks manually at...