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Will energy prices power U.S. data centre growth at Europe’s expense?

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

Low and stable electricity prices are likely to make the U.S. a target for datacentre investment at Europe’s expense, according to a report published by 451 Research. Lower electricity prices are also expected to impact U.S. investment in energy-efficient technologies.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

A Milton-Keynes based company that provides Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software solutions to blue chip companies has incorporated a back up solution, otherwise known as redundancy, into its business offering and now also has greater bandwidth thanks to Node4.

Published in Management Storage + Servers Virtualisation

GreenBytes®, Inc. says that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company a patent (U.S. No. 8,370,305) for its method of minimizing the amount of network bandwidth needed to copy data between deduplicated data storage systems. The patent recognizes...

Published in Device Security Management Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

Dataguise has announced the results of a recent survey on the importance of securing sensitive data in Apache Hadoop environments. The study was conducted at the O’reilly Strata Conference and the RSA Conference where survey participants highlighted the need to secure sensitive information in...

Biffa signs five-year managed services contract

Agreement provides waste management leader with scalability and efficiency to support growth.

LSI® TrueStore® PA5200 preamplifiers increase hard disk drive areal density

Superior signal-to-noise ratio allows system designers to push hard disk drive areal density and...

RMD Power & Cooling appoints Gavin Maxwell as Managing Director

Demand for data centre power and cooling products expected to rise steadily over next few years.

Commtech appointed Value Added Distributor for X-IO

Commtech has been appointed by Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies to manage its full...

PEER 1 Hosting on Olympian recruitment drive

European MD sees link between ideal staff traits and having what it takes to be an Olympic athlete.

Continued business expansion

To support its impressive growth within the data centre market, Borri Ltd has expanded its...

City Lifeline re-launches website to keep pace with latest data trends

City Lifeline has unveiled a new, more interactive website, designed to reflect changing business...

“Software defined Storage” auf den WorldHostingDays 2013:

Der DataCore Storage-Hypervisor im „Pay as You Serve“–Modell

Water, not power, the deciding factor for data centre location?

Bill Tesarek, President of Alsay, explains that, as Texas accelerates its position as a hub for AI infrastructure, a less visible constraint is beginning to surface: water availability may become the limiting...

Interview with Panduit at DCE Stockholm

Data Centre Expo 2026

Getting to grips with gigawatt facilities and constrained grid capacity

Brad Johnson, Director, Industry Executive for Electric Utilities at Bentley Systems, explains how smart data centre developers are already recognising that real engineering value lives beyond the fence line....

Securing the expanding attack surface through visibility and IT OT convergence

Olly Carter, Senior Channel Sales Director at Forescout, discusses how asset sprawl, IT OT IoT convergence and AI-driven threats are reshaping enterprise security priorities. He also explores why real-time...

Expert Opinions

Uncontrolled grid voltages are growing threat to data centre operations

By Dr Vincent Thornley, managing director of Fundamentals at EA Technology,, whose voltage control solutions are used by every UK electricity network operator. Fundamentals also co-founded and co-hosts the...

Software under scrutiny: AppSec is now a make or break factor

By Priyank Savla, Vice President, Marketing, Invicti.

Power system resilience in data centres ~ Supporting uptime and stability through controlled fault current and resistive technologies

Data centres underpin the digital economy, enabling services from cloud computing to artificial intelligence and global communications. As demand continues to grow, the need for uninterrupted operation rises...

Why scaling AI is proving harder than launching it

Mike Fry, Infrastructure Data & Security Solutions Director at Logicalis UKI, discusses why many organisations are discovering that while launching AI is relatively straightforward, scaling it across the...

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