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Solving the data centre staffing crisis

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management

The rapid growth of the data centre sector has caused a worsening crisis in staffing levels. The situation means it is also becoming more difficult to find skilled employees for open infrastructure positions, according to the Uptime Institute global data centre survey 2020. By Ryan Hogg, Senior Hardware Product Manager, Opengear.

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What next for data centres?

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

Over the course of the past year, the number of tech giants that have taken a more aggressive stance on climate change and their own environmental impact has seen a significant increase. Among others, Microsoft has pledged to become carbon negative, Amazon is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2040, and Intel has plotted a path to carbon neutral computing by 2030. By Ian Whitfield, CEO of RED, an ENGIE Impact company.

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Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

Published in Cloud Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

As interconnected services continue to proliferate, with increases in cloud providers, edge services and SaaS offerings, the rationale to stay only in a traditional data centre topology has limited advantages. This is not an overnight shift, but a change in thinking how we deliver services to our customers and to the business. This trend, coupled with the new reality that external factors might limit physical access to data centres (such as emergency quarantine), is driving new thinking on how...

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Preparing for a simpler future: Greater efficiency in the data centre

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

By W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technical Evangelist, Druva.

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What next for data centres on the sustainability journey?

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

By Ian Whitfield, CEO of RED, an ENGIE Impact company.

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Too much power capacity in data centres is going to waste

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Energy Management Power & Cooling

Data centers exist to deliver IT workloads in a manner that is both capital and energy-efficient, in this way both data center and customers benefit. Yet the power delivery method remains rigid, inflexible and usually misaligned with IT SLAs, which has a significant negative impact on performance and infrastructure capital efficiency. By Ed Ansett, Chairman, i3 Solutions.

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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DC Facilities + Colo

Solving the data centre staffing crisis

What next for data centres?

Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

Preparing for a simpler future: Greater efficiency in the data centre

What next for data centres on the sustainability journey?

Too much power capacity in data centres is going to waste

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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019