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Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.

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The Hidden Factor Affecting Data Center Reliability

Why water quality has become a defining variable in AI-era data center commissioning By Jacob Paugh, Senior Director of Global High Tech at ChemTreat.

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Data centres and the fire hazard: why fire protection enclosures are essential

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 integrity in the event of a fire, helping facilities sustain safe operation and supporting a controlled shutdown during an incident, as well as assisting safe evacuation and fire suppression. To achieve this, modern polycarbonate fire protection enclosures combine certified fire performance with...

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Don’t let pumps become another bottleneck to data centre growth

Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help prevent another infrastructure bottleneck from holding back the sector.

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The connected thermal-power ecosystem for AI

By Michael Poto - Product Manager - Global Chilled Water Systems at Vertiv.

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Cooling without the cost

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 owners. ‘Free-cooling’, an old technology that’s having a resurgence in popularity, can help with this challenge, but only if it genuinely exploits partial (mixed-mode) operation. Tim Mitchell from Klima-Therm explains why not all ‘free-cooling’ is created equal, and what owners...

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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