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Lowering PUEs to save energy

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Hardware

According to data centre consortium Uptime Institute, a typical data centre has an average PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 2.5. This means that for every 2.5W in at the utility meter, only 1W is delivered to the load. Yet the institute estimates that most facilities can achieve a 1.6 PUE using...

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451 Research's Cloud Price Index fell 1.32% over the past eight weeks to $2.53 at the start of December due to price cuts of up to 79% by Google, and reductions of up to 43% on bandwidth by AWS.

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

2015 predictions from Kevin St Cyr, senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions, CommScope.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

By Wieland Alge, VP & GM of EMEA at Barracuda Networks.

What's so special about a low attenuation interconnect?

By Willy Rietveld, TE Connectivity. (W.Rietveld@TE.com)

Invu’s predictions for 2015

These predictions for 2015 are from Stuart Evans, Chief Technology Officer, at Invu.

2015 prediction - courtesy of Rackspace

Nigel Beighton, VP Technology, Rackspace – predictions for 2015.

Perforce announces technology predictions for 2015

The year ahead will see other industries and disciplines adopt software development technology and...

ExtraHop predicts an IT security shakeup

ExtraHop has announced its top predictions for enterprise IT in 2015. Based on insight from...

Six enterprise IT predictions for 2015

By David Gibson, VP at Varonis Systems.

Ormuco Communications selects MigSolv for data centre services

Ormuco Communications, the global Cloud, managed services and telecommunications provider has...

One third of European businesses to introduce wearable technology to the workplace in 2015

However, over three quarters of businesses in the UK, France and Germany admit they have no policy...

IDC reveals data centre predictions for 2015

By 2018, third-party service providers will own a quarter of all IT assets installed in...

DATA4 Group appoints Adam Levine Chief Commercial Officer

DATA4 Group, a rapidly expanding European provider of Data Centre solutions, announced today that...

Six Degrees Group moves to St Katharine Docks

Six Degrees Group (6DG) thas opened its flagship new 22,000 sq. head office in Commodity Quay at St...

GRDs help future-proof data centres

Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps,...

What it takes to deliver a data centre

Katie Coulson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Skanska Advanced Technology, discusses the many factors which need to be considered when delivering a data centre design and build, including the...

Lyten’s Swedish battery assets power data centre colocation strategy

Keith Norman, Chief Marketing & Sustainability Officer of Lyten, explains the reasons behind the company’s acquisition of Northvolt’s battery assets in Sweden, with the site expected to resume operations...

Removing a fundamental bottleneck to AI data centre growth

Sean Burke, CEO at Enteligent, positions 800V DC to 50V DC as the ‘missing piece’ in AI data centre power design. While 800VDC distribution solves the upstream limitations of traditional AC infrastructure,...

Expert Opinions

From Data Hoarding to Data Intelligence: Unlocking Value in Storage

By Stewart Hunwick, Field CTO, Storage Platforms and Solutions, Dell Technologies.

Biometrics in the age of AI: Can zero-knowledge restore trust?

By Paul Inglis, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Ping Identity.

Why AI pilots stall in UK organisations

By Andrea Pleşea, PhD, Co-founder and COO, Druid AI.

Atlassian Team '26: The growing role of context in AI-driven workflows

At Atlassian Team '26 in Anaheim, industry leaders gathered to explore the next phase of AI, where context-aware systems and platform enhancements are set to redefine how work is automated and scaled across...

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