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Time for a data centre sustainability revolution

James Rix, Project Director, Global Lead for Data Center & Mission Critical CoP, Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd, provides a detailed, nuanced and expert analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the data centre industry when it comes to the supply chain, skills and, crucially, sustainability. He argues that it is time for the industry to abandon its ‘softly, softly’ environmental evolution in favour of a strategic thinking and technology revolution.

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Time for a sustainability revolution
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James Rix, Project Director, Global Lead for Data Center & Mission Critical CoP, Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd, provides a detailed, nuanced and expert analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the data centre industry when it comes to the supply chain, skills and, crucially, sustainability. He argues that it is time for the industry to abandon its ‘softly, softly’ environmental evolution in favour of a strategic thinking and technology revolution.

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Best practice data centre optimisation

Dean Boyle, CEO and Co-Founder of Ekkosense, discusses the importance of AI and VR driven thermal optimisation for live data centre environments – helping organisations to address their sustainability objectives as part of an overall corporate ESG strategy.

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Lack of skills threatens data centre disruption

Mike Meyer, Managing Director, Portman Partners (Executive Search), provides some fascinating and expert insights as to why the data centre and wider digital infrastructure sectors are facing an imminent skills shortage, suggesting that innovative thinking and actions are required to address the situation before it becomes a significant bottleneck to ongoing digital transformation in both the business and consumer worlds.

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How best to survive a ransomware attack

Dan Middleton, Vice President UK & Ireland, Veeam, discusses the company’s recent 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, which provides some fascinating insights into how companies deal with the inevitable attack. He covers the importance of backups that ‘must survive’ (not quite the same as immutable storage!), implementing wider risk management and cyber resilience strategies, and the need for increased collaboration within the enterprise – most obviously between the cybersecurity and storage teams. Digitalisation World

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Decentralised data centres offer sustainability edge

Richard Clifford, Director of Solutions at Keysource, discusses ways in which the data centre industry can address its Net Zero obligations with a range of technology and strategy innovations. In particular, he believes that next generation edge, with data centres being constructed and integrated into local communities, offers some significant sustainability benefits, so long as all the stakeholders understand the opportunity.

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Anti-ransomware focus, combined with expanded data recovery scope

Veniamin Simonov, VP of Product Management at NAKIVO, explains the new features included in NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.9, which include Bare Metal Recovery, Direct Recovery from Tape and Backup Malware Scan, as well as outlining a couple of recent customer success stories.

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Looking under the covers at the ‘legacy problem’

Robert Reuben, Managing Director of Proceed Group, provides some fascinating insights into ‘the legacy problem’ – how many companies struggle to understand the various interdependencies of their existing IT infrastructure, applications and data, at a significant financial and operational cost to the business; and proving a potentially significant obstacle to upgrading and optimising their IT environment for the demands of the digital age. Robert explains that it doesn’t need to be this way!

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Storage innovation in the spotlight

Krzysztof Franek, Open-E’s CEO and President, outlines the latest Open-E JovianDSS software updates, which won the company the DCS Award for ICT Storage Innovation, explains the company’s new online course for Data Storage +ZFS, and also discusses the recent Post Bellum customer win and the work Open-E has been doing with both ATTO and Wester Digital. He ends by revealing that, celebrating its 25th anniversary, Open-E will be introducing a brand new release of the Open-E JovianDSS solution.

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Overcoming the NVME over IP-based fabrics discovery problem

Erik Smith, Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how NVMe over IP-Based fabrics (e.g., NVMe/TCP) have the potential to provide significant benefits in application environments ranging from the Edge to the Data Center. However, before before fully unlocking the potential of NVMe over IP-Based fabrics, it is necessary to overcome the discovery problem.

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Promoting a powerful data centre industry proposition

Mark Yeeles, Vice President of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power division in the UK and Ireland, shares his enthusiasm for his new role as he seeks to bring many years’ experience (including most recently within the company’s Industrial Automation division) to bear on the data centre industry. He believes that the sector has an important, positive role to play in both enabling and implementing digital solutions.

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Women in IT - Lindsay Micklethwaite, Head of Product with Gladstone

Lindsay Micklethwaite, Head of Product at Gladstone, discusses the challenges facing women in the IT industry, the benefits of workplace equality and diversity and ways in which these can be promoted.

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