Equinix boss sees more consolidation

Further M&A activity is likely within the data centre sector, according to its biggest player Equinix. The market has already undergone significant consolidation in recent...

Five steps to improve data centre performance in 2019

Much more accessible data centre infrastructure management (DCIM), tighter ‘edge’ integration, fully-sensed data centre environments, ditching subjective optimisation insights and greater input from other...

Green Grid: Data centres ‘must become like mobile app developers’

Data centre operators must adopt the mindset of mobile phone software developers or risk the wrath of regulators for wasting energy. That was the message...

Ian Bitterlin: Artificial intelligence in the data centre?

There's talk of artificial intelligence revolutionising data centres. Ian Bitterlin suggests some human intelligence would be a good place to start. This month I have...

Is ambient cooling overtaking compressor technology?

Tim Bound, director at Transtherm Cooling Industries, explores the evolving role of ambient cooling technologies in keeping energy costs low in data centre applications As...

Let them eat bandwidth: Ian Bitterlin on optimisation or bust

Data growth continues to outstrip Moore’s Law. A paradigm shift in network photonics and devices will be required to accommodate the ever-increasing bandwidth hunger,...

Optimising data centre assets for maximum efficiency

A staggering 80% of data centres fail to exceed 60% of their original design specification. Paul Rivett, group operations director, CNet Training,  identifies common poor practices...

Data centre temperatures to rise and London demand to fall?

Data centres will become warmer over the next five years as industry adopts Ashrae standards, according to Global With’s Derrick Allen. “Lukewarm aisles” could...

PUE: a flawed and inadequate metric or practically perfect?

PUE has its critics but it is neither flawed nor inadequate. In fact, for what it is intended to represent, it is nearly perfect;...

Siemens to harness AI to improve cooling efficiency

The Siemens Building Technologies Division is expanding its existing Thermal Optimisation offering set for data centres to intelligently ensure both highly efficient cooling production...

Sudlows Open New European Office in Dublin

Sudlows are pleased to announce the opening of its new European office in Dublin. Sudlows have been working with an increasing number of key clients...

The Catalyst for change…

An EU funded project has developed a ‘Green Data Centre Assessment Tool’ and is seeking to remove barriers to participation in grid services, such...

The future impact of the hyperscale data centre

There will be more than 600 hyperscale data centres worldwide by 2020, which could have a beneficial impact on the cloud market, according to...

Understanding causes of data centre failures

Nils Gerstle from Collaboretix Enterprise Consulting warns that too many data centres operate in a ‘reactive mode’ Data centre failure can be described as a critical...

Technical analysis for data centre operators moving to net-zero

The new series of white papers aims to provide vendor-neutral decision-making support together with insights into the factors associated with the many technology options...

Mission Critical Power – latest issue

The latest issue of Mission Critical Power magazine is out now. Over the lock-down period we have been busy improving our digital proposition for our...

Provisioning the digital transformation of Newcastle City Council services

Newcastle City Council turns to Schneider Electric and its partner Advanced Power Technology for data centre resilience and system visibility. Newcastle City Council has recently...

Inspired to cut power usage in data server barns

Believed to be guzzling as much as 2% of the entire planet’s electricity now -  and already at 11% in Ireland, - data centres...

Schneider Electric Advances Management of Hybrid IT Infrastructure with New EcoStruxure IT Innovation

Schneider Electric have announced it is advancing the remote management and monitoring of data centres and edge computing deployments with a trifecta of innovations...

Are data centres using their UPS estate efficiently?

The latest research suggests that many UPS systems are not operating efficiently and are being under-utilised. Louise Frampton spoke to Riello UPS general manager...