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Higher ASPs push up data centre physical infrastructure market

Published in Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the Data Center Physical Infrastructure (DCPI) market revenue growth accelerated in 4Q 2022, pushing full-year sales to 10 percent.

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Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?

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

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

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Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT

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

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

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Schneider Electric appoints Mark Yeeles to Secure Power Division

Published in Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Mark Yeeles joins Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division from its UK&I Industrial Automation Business after a period of sustained growth.

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BCS launches 2023 apprenticeship programme

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

Business Critical Solutions (BCS), the specialist business dedicated to optimising digital infrastructure across the globe, has started recruiting for this year’s apprenticeship programme and is looking for the next generation of Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers.

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Africa Data Centres deploys a 'cutting-edge' DCIM solution across its facilities

Published in Infrastructure + Asset Management

The solution will measure, monitor and manage all IT equipment and supporting infrastructure housed within its facilities.

78% of UK data centres aren’t compliant with best practice ASHRAE thermal guidelines

EkkoSense shows how impact of just 11% of IT racks falling outside of ASHRAE recommended range can lead to widescale non-compliance.

Equinix invests in Warsaw development centre

New innovation hub strengthens global interconnection leader’s product design and engineering talent and capabilities.

How a trading floor continues its operations during COVID-19 lockdown

When the pandemic hit the world and people were forced to stay at home in order to stay safe and minimize the number of casualties, a major bank faced serious dilemmas on how to let its floor traders continue their work.

Two-thirds of data centre IT infrastructure spending in China will be obtained by local vendors

By 2019, two-thirds of data center IT infrastructure spending in China will be obtained by local Chinese vendors, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that local vendors are getting more and more competitive in all aspects, from product service quality to cost control and flexibility in customization. Large companies, such as Huawei and Lenovo, and thousands of smaller vendors have been significantly improving their capabilities in terms of R&D, marketing, service and support, offering solutions comparable with those of global vendors at very aggressive price points.

Eurotech Computer Services partners with Datum Datacentres to support its expanding portfolio

In the search for new ways to solve client business issues, the Eurotech team continuously strive to build new solutions that will improve performance and reduce costs. When their latest release of Cloud services were in development, Eurotech recognised the need for a new co-location data centre provider that could enable them to provide a next generation data centre service to their clients and so Eurotech entered into a partnership with Datum Datacentres in Farnborough in 2014.

Cyxtera integrates zero-trust security into data centres

Cyxtera Technologies has integrated AppGate SDP, its software-defined perimeter solution, across its 50+ best-in-class data centres to deliver zero-trust capabilities to customers. AppGate SDP leverages micro-segmentation to apply the principle of least-privileged access to the network, which reduces the attack surface. Providing an on-demand, free edition of AppGate SDP to colocation customers further builds on Cyxtera’s vision of delivering secure, cyber-resilient infrastructure for modern enterprises.

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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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