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Solving the data centre staffing crisis

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management

The rapid growth of the data centre sector has caused a worsening crisis in staffing levels. The situation means it is also becoming more difficult to find skilled employees for open infrastructure positions, according to the Uptime Institute global data centre survey 2020. By Ryan Hogg,...

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A legacy problem

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

Chris West, Head of Global Accounts at Keysource, the data centre and critical environment specialist, looks at the challenges global businesses are facing when it comes to provisioning critical infrastructure across a legacy estate.

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Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

Published in Cloud Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

As interconnected services continue to proliferate, with increases in cloud providers, edge services and SaaS offerings, the rationale to stay only in a traditional data centre topology has limited advantages. This is not an overnight shift, but a change in thinking how we deliver services to our...

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Covid-19 will accelerate the introduction of mega data centre campuses

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

The digital business case has been propelled forward five years. Since the COVID-19 crisis, businesses across the country have had to adapt and react quickly, setting out plans for staff to work from home more regularly, as emergency measures introduced during the pandemic turn into permanent...