Swedish Parliament approves lowered tax rates for data centres

The decision taken by the Swedish legislator lowers the electricity tax rate for data centers in Sweden to 0.005 SEK or USD 0.00054 per kWh. This 97% tax cut will come into effect by January 1st, 2017 and will be applicable to both existing and new data centers exceeding 0.5 MW capacity.

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Rackspace opens German data centre

Leading managed cloud services provider makes significant technology investment to serve European firms' data hosting needs.

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Delivering Cloud integration for scalable and cost-effective secondary storage

Cohesity has introduced a new product that extends the benefits of its on-premises consolidated secondary storage solution to public cloud infrastructure. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition (CE) enables businesses to take advantage...

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Synchronising India's defence network

Oscilloquartz, an ADVA Optical Networking company, has been selected to synchronize a nationwide core transport network being built for India's armed forces.

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Job-hopping trend heralds new era of personal data risk

Record numbers of job seekers expected to lose sight of who holds their personal information.

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Tieto supports global expansion

Tieto has signed a three-year deal with Camfil to deliver cloud-based IT infrastructure. Based...

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Phoenix takes wing to AWS

Druva has revealed the availability of Druva Phoenix via Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace,...

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Barracuda introduces Web Security Gateway updates

Barracuda has announced updates to its Web Security Gateway product line to protect web users...

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A new way of managing cables?

Chatsworth Products (CPI) is known for its quality and expertise in cable management and the...

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NFV monitoring - proof of concept success

Anritsu and Ixia have completed a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Monitoring Proof of...

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IBM launches experimental Watson platform

Developers can extend Watson speech, language, vision and empathy capabilities to new form factors.

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Simplifying security and monitoring for any size data centre

Combines environmental monitoring and rack access control into single appliance for increased...

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Videos

Phylip Morgan, Senior Vice President, Marketplace & Channel Expansion at Pax8, explores the shift from Managed Service Providers to Managed Intelligence Providers and what it means for the future of the...
In this interview, Melanie Douglas, Sales Manager EMEA & Global Partner Program Manager, discusses how the company is evolving its Microsoft 365 migration expertise into AI readiness, governance, and Copilot...
Mostyn Thomas, Senior Director of Security EMEA at Pax8, breaks down how ransomware is evolving, what the new Cyber Essentials standards mean in practice, why attackers are increasingly targeting supply...
Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control...

Expert Opinions

As UK data centre capacity continues to expand, ensuring electrical resilience under fire conditions is an important design priority. Fire protection enclosures play a vital role in maintaining circuit...
Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...
By Danny Kirby (Senior Account Director at Cameo Services) and Iain Burton (Strategic Account Director at RTK Group).