Yuasa to showcase new wireless battery monitoring solution at Data Centre World

Yuasa will be launching a new UPS battery temperature monitoring solution at this year’s Data Centre World (stand D1025), at Excel, London on 12/13...

‘Too many data centres operate in reactive mode’ warns consulting firm

Nils Gerstle from Collaboretix Enterprise Consulting warns that failures are all too often due to a reactive approach to data centre management.  Data centre failure can...

‘Look before you leap to the cloud’, councils warned

Researchers from Brunel University London have tracked what happens when local councils transfer services to cloud computing and warned that local authorities and public...

£2.3M Manchester data centre upgrade

UKFast has announced an investment of £2.3 million to upgrade its Manchester-based data centre complex. The latest improvements to the hosting firm’s data centre...

€1.1 billion to be invested in Irish data centre construction in 2018

Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland, has announced the release...

100% uptime or a year for free: Volta claims world first with data centre...

Independent central London data centre operator Volta says its resilience is so good that it will give customers a year’s free service if racks...

500 reasons to visit Data Centre World

Involved in data centres? In this sponsored post, the organisers of Data Centre World say they have 500 reasons why you should visit the...

68% of businesses are wasting energy

Schneider Electric UK has launched its ‘Rethink Energy’ initiative, a programme aimed at changing business, consumer and government attitudes to energy waste and help...

A powerful connection: delivering supply to KAO

KAO Data’s new £200m development required a dedicated and redundant 43.5MVA power supply. Managing costs and ensuring resilience was critical to the success of...

A room with a PUE: UKFast builds hotel for data centre engineers

Colocation provider UKFast is building “plush” accommodation and work spaces at its Manchester data centre. That means clients' engineers can stay for free when...

ABB and Hewlett Packard announce collaboration

ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced a strategic global partnership that combines ABB Ability with HPE’s hybrid information technology (IT) solutions. The...

ABB to provide reliable power supply for Canadian data centre

ABB is supplying an integrated substation to Hypertec, based in Montreal, to support the expansion of an existing data centre, to meet growing demand. As...

Acquisition of Romonet expands CBRE’s data centre solutions offering

CBRE Group has acquired the assets of Romonet, a leading advanced analytics software company which provides technology and consulting services for large global data...

Airdale launches air conditioning range with lower global warming potential

Airedale International, the British-based air conditioning solutions provider, has  launched a new range of R32-optimised air conditioning products. The Azure range, which has been under...

Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Middle East 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to open an infrastructure region in the Middle East by early 2019. The new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region...

Anne Stokes takes punt on Redcar ICI site as £100m data centre

An application has been lodged for planning permission to build a data centre on the former Redcar ICI site. The company behind the application is...

APC NetShelter racks and micro data centres achieve Cisco certification

Schneider Electric has announced that APC NetShelter SX with Shock Packaging has achieved Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Pre-rack and Ship Certification, expanding certification...

Apple data centre given green light by Ireland’s high court

Apple has finally been given the go-ahead to build a huge new data centre in Athenry, County Galway, by Ireland's High Court. The new...

Apple scraps Irish data centre plan

Apple has scrapped plans to build an €850 million data centre in Ireland due to long delays in the approval process. The company announced plans...

Apple sweating on £650m Ireland data centre

Apple is still sweating on its proposed £650m data centre in Athenry, County Galway. The electronics giant, which has a net cash pile of £105bn, announced...