What lies beneath the sheath?
Julie Banks, UK sales manager at Nexans, discusses how it is everyone’s responsibility to establish if the cables they are using really are fit...
What needs to be done to ensure resilience and efficiency of UPS technologies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7J6TUJIdI
As data centres comprise a high proportion of an organisation’s power consumption, and UPSs are major components within them, optimising UPS efficiency can...
What UPS design features really matter to end users?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNBgUPus48
Next generation UPS technology has been developed with consideration for changing data centre deployment and capacity models – radically in the case of...
Where is innovation in UPS technology heading?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9ryZM_w9I
Innovation in the field of Uninterruptible Power Supplies has “stood still” for a number of years, having reached a “plateau”, according Phil Dunn,...
White paper outlines key factors for specifying IT Pods
For centralised data centres, including the latest hyperscale facilities, there is a need to develop larger increments of IT resource, known as Pods, comprising...
Why make the switch to DC power?
Socomec’s Jean–Yves Chaboute argues that data centres can improve effiency by moving to DC distribution
As power densities increase, colocation and hyperscale data centre operators...
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...
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...