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Vertiv trends forecast sees intense focus on AI enablement and energy management

Intense, urgent demand for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities – and the dueling pressure to reduce energy consumption, costs and greenhouse gas emissions – loom large over the data centre industry heading into 2024.

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Gartner highlights nine principles to improve cloud resilience

Infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders must deploy nine principles to maximize the resilience of cloud environments, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Study finds breakeven point for businesses when a private network solution ‘pays for itself’

A new case study on egress charges has suggested companies that exchange roughly 25Mbps (megabit-per-second) or more cloud traffic per month could significantly reduce their fees by switching to a private network solution which ‘pays for itself’.

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Cloud skills gap causes 33% of businesses to miss financial objectives

A report published by SoftwareOne Holding shows that 98% of organisations globally are facing a cloud skills gap. This is causing digital transformation projects to fall behind by an average of five months, with one-third of businesses claiming their financial objectives will take a significant hit as a result.

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Deep Green and Civo form partnership to make cloud sustainable

Agreement will see Civo become the exclusive cloud partner of Deep Green, the innovative company using compute waste heat to heat swimming pools and local communities.

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Rackspace Technology launches Rackspace Managed Cloud

Comprehensive service powered by Rackspace Cloud Management Platform designed to empower customers by fully outsourcing the management and operations of their cloud environments.

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etisalat by e& standardises on Red Hat

Service provider consolidates platform strategy on Red Hat technologies including Red Hat OpenShift for cloud-native workloads.

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Gymshark plans accelerated global growth with Google Cloud AI

Partnership will involve Gymshark using Google Cloud's data analytics and AI tools to improve customer experiences during November's Black Friday sales event and beyond.

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Top VC’s back a more sustainable way for businesses to use the cloud

Groundbreaking green distributed compute network that uses the waste heat from cloud compute to heat the water in people’s homes raises £1 million in funding.

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Node4's virtual data centre delivers for Together for Mental Wellbeing

Node4 has provided Together for Mental Wellbeing with a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) solution, which includes automated backup, recovery and business continuity components.

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OVHcloud selects Console Connect as global cloud connect partner

OVHcloud has selected Console Connect, a leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform, as a new global OVHcloud Connect partner, extending private network reach to OVHcloud from hundreds of locations worldwide.

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Making money in the cloud

Nearly two-thirds (62%) of financial services decision-makers think moving market data to the cloud will reduce total cost of ownership.

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CourtCorrect moves UK Financial Services Complaints AI to OVHcloud

AI system empowers complaints teams and increases access to justice for consumers, ensuring decisions are made consistently, fairly and quickly.

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OpenUK and the UN announce collaborative open source Data Centre Challenge

Furthering commitments made at COP26, with Data Centre Blueprint The Challenge will see open source software developers contribute to building a carbon neutral data centre model.

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Avanade launches new cloud insights platform

Avanade Cloud Impact identifies business risk, technical debt, cost optimization and sustainability improvements to help companies establish a resilient and AI-ready digital core.

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Videos

Saswata Basu, founder of Züs, explains how he has developed the dStorage decentralised storage platform using blockchain and delivering key benefits, such as the elimination of single points of failure, enhanced data privacy and security, cost-effectiveness, transparency, and improved access and management.
Guido Grillenmeier, Principal Technologist EMEA at identity security pioneer, Semperis, discusses the company’s recent research which reveals that too many organisations are still failing to address Active Directory security gaps. The good news is that, those who do tackle this problem and engage expert help see a massive improvement in their security posture.
Christina Mertens, Vice President of Business Development, EMEA, and Darren Watkins, Managing Director, both at VIRTUS Data Centres, discuss the company’s planned 300MW Wustermark Data Centre Campus - poised to become one of Germany's and Europe’s largest scale green data centre campuses and described as a ‘new benchmark for data centre capacity for Cloud and AI in Europe’.
Neil Potter, Business Development Manager for Electrical Systems and Solutions, Eaton, discusses the problems data centre owners and operators have when it comes to optimising the design, implementation, operation and retirement of their electrical infrastructure; and goes on to explain how the company’s recently launched xIntegra solution addresses these challenges by providing an holistic, integrated systems engineering approach to electrical systems design, hardware, software, services and the value chain lifecycle.

Expert Opinions

By Dan McConnell, Senior Vice President Product Management and Enablement at Hitachi Vantara.
In business for nearly 30 years, MR Datentechnik is a leading German provider of IT solutions and managed services. To launch a new S3-compatible storage service, the company implemented Quantum ActiveScale object storage along with Veeam Backup & Replication. By using ActiveScale, the company can offer a resilient, highly scalable service that has the flexibility to support a wide range of S3-enabled apps and workflows.
By Chris Steiner, VP EMEA, Zimperium.
By Kelley Mullick PhD, Vice President of Technology Advancement and Alliances, Iceotope.