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Lowering PUEs to save energy

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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.

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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...

AI continues to shape data centre design and operations innovation - Part 3: Future & innovation

Stefano Mozzato Vice President of Marketing, EMEA, discusses the findings of the Vertiv Frontier report, which details the technology trends driving current and future innovation, from powering up for AI, to...

Closing the visibility gap in modern MSP cybersecurity

Kristian Wright, Co-Founder and CEO at enhanced.io, discusses why MSPs must move beyond traditional endpoint security and embrace a unified approach across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and IoT...

Platform play delivers thermal management expertise across the data centre ecosystem

Peter Huang, Global President of Thermal Management & Data Centre at Castrol, discusses the rising importance of liquid cooling to meet the growing demands of AI, ML, and edge computing, explaining how bp...

Hybrid world promises true PUE

Peter Griffiths, Founder and Chairman of Argyll Data Development, argues that the energy efficiency debate should move beyond making existing data centres marginally more efficient and focus instead on how AI...

Expert Opinions

The infrastructure behind the UK’s AI ambitions

Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer at Park Place Technologies, examines how sovereign compute ambitions and accelerating AI adoption are reshaping enterprise infrastructure strategies.

Refrigerants Are Critical for Data Centres: How to Manage Them Responsibly

Exclusive interview with Vincent Homrighausen, Managing Director EMEA at A-Gas, a global provider in Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM): “As phase-down regulations intensify towards 2030, we support...

Yael Poliavich and Support for Educational Initiatives

Yael Poliavich’s philanthropic activities, her contribution to educational initiatives through the Yael Foundation, and support for identity-centered learning programs for children worldwide.

Designing for a Volatile Climate: Why Data Centers Must Converge Resilience and Sustainability

By Kate Steele, Director, EMEA HPC/AI at Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group.

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