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Chris Pennington, Director of Energy & Sustainability at Iron Mountain, shares some fascinating insights on the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry, alongside detailing many of the ways in which the sector is already making significant progress to reduce its carbon footprint.

A five-step strategy for sustainability

Danel Turk, Solution Portfolio Manager, Data Centers at ABB, explains the company’s sustainability five-step strategy, before going on to discuss technology innovations, such as microgrids, battery energy storage, fuel cells and variable speed drives, which can all make a positive contribution to improving and optimising data centre environmental performance.

Sustainable storage – time for IT teams to step up

Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

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

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.

News

Digital boost, but barriers remain

European businesses expect digital transformation projects to boost productivity by an average of 38% with overall Return on Investment (ROI) expected in just under five years.

GoTo reveals the key trends shaping IT priorities in 2023

Consolidation of technology to reduce the burden on IT, save money, and ultimately find new ways to better support customers, among the key findings in the survey.

Surge in endpoint ransomware, decline in network-detected malware

Research indicates that encrypted connections have become the preferred method for malware delivery, putting organisations that don’t decrypt traffic at higher risk.

NetApp supports the European Space Agency to create first 3D map of the universe

The European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organisation shaping Europe’s space capability, is working with data management experts NetApp to help store the vast amount of data collected today and over the past 30 years of space exploration. The data stored comes from the ESA’s solar system missions and from the ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers.

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Videos

DCS talks to Iron Mountain about Sustainability and the Data Centre