Physical security for resilient critical infrastructure

The systems, networks, and assets that make up a nation’s critical infrastructure must be kept up and running to ensure the health, safety, and...

Octopus invests £200m in Deep Green data centre heat re-use technology

Octopus Energy’s generation arm today announces a £200 million investment in London-based tech disruptor Deep Green to help it rapidly scale its groundbreaking technology...

Amazon backs Moray West & Ocean Winds with 473MW PPA

Data colossus Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement with ENGIE, increasing its share of output from developer Ocean Winds’ Moray West venture...

Data centre firms partner to curb AI power use

Renewables-powered NexGen Cloud, the sustainable GPU and cloud data hosting provider, is partnering with European data centre provider, AQ Compute, to boost decarbonised AI computing across...

CENTIEL’s UPS now Available in an IP54 Enclosure  

CENTIEL’s true modular UPS are now available in an IP54 enclosure offering a sophisticated and robust power protection solution for semi-industrial and more environmentally...

Utilities and energy a prime target for API security incidents

As a critical element of national infrastructures worldwide, the energy and utilities sector literally keeps the lights on in today’s world. When water, gas,...

APT and Schneider deliver power upgrade to the University of Stirling

Set in the shadow of the Ochil Hills, the University of Stirling’s magnificent 330-acre campus encompasses a loch, a golf course and the 18th-century...

How IP House delivers on uptime goals

IP House provides high performance colocation data centre services to customers for whom uptime and availability are essential. Adopting a pay-as-you-grow approach to deployment,...

Hyper security in a changing world: the hidden data centre

There have been some high profile power outages at data centres, political instability in the EU and suggestions that data centres could become the...

Schneider Electric expands cloud-based DCIM portfolio

Schneider Electric has introduced EcoStruxure IT Advisor, further expanding its cloud-based DCIM portfolio of solutions. EcoStruxure IT Advisor delivers a simplified way to deploy data...

The future of DCIM: remote, data-driven and Cloudy?

Experts at 451 Research point out that the value of data centre infrastructure management data multiplies when integrated, shared and analysed at scale. DCIM-based...

Adapting infrastructure following legislative change

From the IP Act and Brexit, to a new Green Grid performance metric, Future Facilities’ Jon Leppard discusss the potential impact on data centre...

Beyond PUE: Tackling IT’s wasted Terawatts

The Uptime Institute's analysis of data centre energy efficiency trends over the past decade, supported by detailed power usage data from over 300 data...

Comparing costs of prefab data centres with traditional build

SchneiderElectric has introduced a Prefabricated vs Traditional Data Centre Cost Calculator, providing users with a cost analysis for considering the optimum approach to deploying...

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...

Data Centre World: digital transformation and why we need to rethink resilience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHi1UVeerHw   Resilience at the Edge must be made a priority, as data centres move away from traditional, centralised models. However, there will be significant...

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...

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,...

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;...