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Visual air quality indicator care for data centres

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

Technology Care LLC has launched an air quality card which changes color when exposed to air particles and corrosive gases. The card can be affixed to data center walls and inside racks.

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Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans due to increasing outages

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

Many data centres are in danger of experiencing significant downtime during a power failure as it’s revealed that one quarter of UK energy decision makers do not have a contingency plan in place.

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V-Lock security system from Siemon improves cabinet access control

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Unplanned data centre downtime can cost the business thousands of dollars per minute. Whilst power outages and network failures range amongst the most common causes, industry reports show that data centre outages are often attributed to human error. In a colocation facility human error can be as simple as accidentally accessing the wrong cabinet for patching and maintenance work.

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Certification tackles growing sustainability issues of data centres

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

The environmental impact of data usage is growing fast. Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers are now equal to those of the global air travel. To help tackle the problem, the sustainability certification TCO Certified will be expanded to include network equipment, data storage products and servers.

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Data centre traffic control

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New technology shows in simulation that flow completion times can be shortened by up to 95%.

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Creating smarter, more productive workplaces

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Panduit EMEA, the data centre physical infrastructure and connectivity company, has installed an intelligent sensing lighting solution for enterprise and data centre environments transitioning to Power over Ethernet (PoE), at its London Customer Briefing Centre (CBC). Developed with Cisco and Signify, the solution provides a complete ecosystem which is interoperable with smart LEDs, LiFi, WiFi and third party IoT devices and sensing applications, to provide unprecedented capability for lighting...

Uptime Institute names winners of 2013 Green Enterprise IT Awards

Uptime Institute, a division of The 451 Group, has announced the winners of the 2013 Green...

STARKE EUROPAWEITE RESONANZ AUF DEN POWERING THE CLOUD KONFERENZEN

Die größten herstellerunabhängigen Veranstaltungen über Data Storage,...

HP und Intel eröffnen Zentrum für Hochleistungsrechner in Grenoble

HP und Intel eröffnen in Grenoble ein Center of Excellence für High-Performance Computing...

Delivering data centre professional services

Following a competitive tender, The National Archives has appointed Keysource, the expert in...

ABB and Rittal enhance global partnership to drive digitalisation in industrial applications

ABB and Rittal to provide industrial grade edge data center solutions for industrial customers...

Hospital trust deploys Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure™ IT Expert

Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust chooses APT, an Elite Partner of Schneider...

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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