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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 customers and to the business. This trend, coupled with the new reality that external factors might limit physical access to data centres (such as emergency quarantine), is driving new thinking on how...

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Preparing for a simpler future: Greater efficiency in the data centre

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

By W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technical Evangelist, Druva.

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What next for data centres on the sustainability journey?

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

By Ian Whitfield, CEO of RED, an ENGIE Impact company.

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Too much power capacity in data centres is going to waste

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Energy Management Power & Cooling

Data centers exist to deliver IT workloads in a manner that is both capital and energy-efficient, in this way both data center and customers benefit. Yet the power delivery method remains rigid, inflexible and usually misaligned with IT SLAs, which has a significant negative impact on performance and infrastructure capital efficiency. By Ed Ansett, Chairman, i3 Solutions.

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Beyond the basics of sustainability

Published in Digital Business Energy Management

We all know that protecting the environment is important. Our growing awareness of the damage that humans are collectively doing to the planet will only be beneficial to the cause. It is heartening to see consumers and businesses alike taking on small changes in their daily behaviour in an attempt to minimise the harmful effects on the environment. By Carmen Ene, CEO of 3stepIT.

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Open to all, time for the data centre sector to end the skills issue

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

As the electric and digital worlds converge, talent acquisition and team management are among the biggest challenges faced by data centre and technology businesses today. By Marc Garner, VP, Secure Power Division, UK&I.

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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DC Facilities + Colo

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

Preparing for a simpler future: Greater efficiency in the data centre

What next for data centres on the sustainability journey?

Too much power capacity in data centres is going to waste

Beyond the basics of sustainability

Open to all, time for the data centre sector to end the skills issue

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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019