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
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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;...
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...
Simplifying power protection for small and medium enterprises with PRS System
Sometimes you want a very robust on-line rack mount UPS system that you can operate in parallel with extended battery runtime packs, supplied in...
Data Centres right at your doorstep!
Modular Data Centres have moved from a trend to a viable option for new data centre infrastructure, but is this type of solution the...
Edge to drive growth in modular builds
Vertiv’s Viktor Petik provides an insight into the growing market for pre-fabricated modular data centres and claims that deployments will reshape data centre economics...
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Rack-mounted modular UPS ‘derisks entire infrastructure’
Socomec says it has extended its UPS range to address the evolving demands placed upon those responsible for managing data centres, critical buildings and facilities....