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Comparing the costs of prefabricated versus traditional data centres

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

Prefabricated modular data centres offer many benefits including flexibility, predictability and speed of deployment. Cost can be seen as a barrier, but a systematic comparison provides detailed insights into the variance in capital expenditure between a prefab and a traditional purpose-built data centre.

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Safeguarding crime data

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

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has awarded the management of two of its critical data centres to Keysource, the critical environment specialists, as part of the wider strategic implementation of the force’s technology transformation programme.

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ICTFOOTPRINT.eu is the new European initiative for energy efficiency in ICT

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Energy Management

ICTFOOTPRINT.eu (www.ictfootprint.eu), the European initiative on Energy & Environmental efficiency in the field of ICT (Information & Communication Technologies), was launched on February 1st, 2016. The project shall develop an online platform to support organisations, especially European SMEs, in acquiring a more energy efficient and greener profile.

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As Internet usage becomes more bandwidth intensive and more devices become connected, processing power and data storage are moving from central locations to the edge of the network to shorten transport times and boost efficiency.

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Wipro has won an IT infrastructure transformation contract from the ASSA ABLOY Group, headquartered in Sweden. ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in door opening solutions.

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Siemon has launched a free ‘Interactive Data Centre Guide’ as part of its WheelHouse™ portfolio. Focusing support for data centre professionals, this online educational resource centre provides comprehensive data centre guidance for selecting, designing and deploying the business-critical infrastructure upon which the entire data centre relies. Its aim is to ‘connect the world to a higher data centre standard’ by offering comprehensive resources in one...

"Help Us Heat Our Neighbours"

Equinix is calling for municipal planning agencies, energy utilities and heat network operators...

Rahi Systems partners with maincubes

maincubes, a European data center owner/operator with ‘German-engineered’ facilities located in...

Eaton equips French data centre with Energy Storage

The use of battery storage at Webaxys’ new data centre enables the effective integration of...

Innovatium secures strategic investment to accelerate PRISMA technology deployment

Innovatium receives investment from HIES and Scottish Bank to enhance PRISMA, promising a cleaner...

Data centres feel the crunch of escalating costs and labour race with advanced manufacturing

Data centre clients are facing project costs which are 15 percent higher than last year on average,...

Schneider Electric and Atea partner

Market leaders’ partner to drive IT sustainability across Nordics and Northern Europe.

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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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