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Dealing with downtime costs

Published in Infrastructure + Hardware Security + Compliance Storage + Servers Tech & Trends

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘Hidden Costs of Downtime’ report – which identifies not just the financial cost of downtime - $400 billion annually – but also the damage done to shareholder value, brand reputation, innovation velocity and customer trust. The report also identifies a group of resilience leaders, and James shares the strategies which these organisations deploy to minimise downtime occurrences and their...

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Edge takes centre stage for Smart Textile Transition

Published in Digital Business Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Domenico Ardizio, System, Network & Security Administrator, ICT Infrastructures, SMS Engineering, talks through the company’s work on the Smart Textile Transition 5.0 project, which won the Edge Project of the Year at the recent DCS Awards. He discusses the challenges, the client benefits, the lessons learnt from the project, before moving on to examine edge computing’s place within a hybrid IT infrastructure solution, which also includes cloud computing.

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AI could ‘make or break’ the data centre industry

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Jim Hart, BCS CEO, provides some brilliant insights into the sustainability, skills and supply chain challenges facing the data centre industry, and that’s before the AI explosion promises to redefine the rules completely! As ever, Jim brings some much needed wisdom to a discussion of the legislation, technology innovation, and choice of data centre location which will likely frame the industry’s future success.

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Making the magic happen

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Doug Loewe, CEO, Kao Data, outlines the company’s strengths which attracted him to join the colo at the start of this year, and shares his vision for the future – with new locations in mainland Europe part of an ACE (AI, Cloud and Enterprise) plan. Doug also offers some great insights as to how the data centre industry in general is responding to the challenges and opportunities of providing a mission-critical foundation for today’s sustainable, digital world.

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Centiel to continue growing its data centre business

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

John Kreyling, Centiel’s newly appointed Business Development Director, shares his enthusiasm for all things UPS as he takes on an important new role at the company. John believes that Centiel has a key role to play in helping data centre owners and operators address their many power, energy efficiency and sustainability challenges, as it continues to develop both its dynamic approach to technology innovation and its presence in the market.

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ESG climbs the corporate agenda

Published in Digital Business Energy Management Tech & Trends

Henrik Sandin, Director & Principal ESG Specialist at Workiva, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ESG Practitioner Survey, covering the impending EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the need for both integrated ESG reporting and assurance, the technology and mindsets needed to transform reporting processes and the roles that both AI and companies such as Workiva can play in helping ESG practitioners develop successful, business-winning ESG strategies.

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

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Dealing with downtime costs

Edge takes centre stage for Smart Textile Transition

AI could ‘make or break’ the data centre industry

Making the magic happen

Centiel to continue growing its data centre business

ESG climbs the corporate agenda

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Time for a sustainability revolution?

Redefining energy-efficient, general purpose processing

DCS talks to Micheala Hogan from RAYN at DC Ireland 2024

Data centre sustainability evaluation - deeds not words matter

Digitalisation World talks to BCS about disaster recovery plans and data centre trends

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