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Challenges in critical cooling discussed by experts

Many IT professionals are relying on small spaces for their ever-increasing business critical applications, such as branch office operations, telecoms and edge computing. Cooling...

Concerns raised over threat of critical infrastructure breaches

Nearly 80% of information security leaders in Europe foresee critical infrastructure breaches across countries in the next two years. Many say they feel unprepared to...

Contract win for Liverpool hospital

A contract to supply critical care power systems and hygienic touch-screen theatre control panels, with PACS viewing screens, has been awaded to Bender UK...

Convergence between physical and cyber environments is leaving businesses exposed

More than half (59%) of respondents to the latest social media poll (conducted by the organisers of Infosecurity Europe 2019) believe that an attack on...

Data centre report offers insight into UK expansion

The third edition of DataCentrePricing.Com’s UK Data Centre Trends service finds that UK Data Centre expansion for the six month period from the end of June 2016...

DataCentres North: full programme announced

Datacentres North’s educational programme will address both 'strategic issues' affecting the industry and the opportunities specific to the region, as well as the 'operational...

Eaton appoints new service partner for Scotland

Eaton UK service business manager Steve Spicer said: "We have seen an increase in demand within the UPS market in Scotland and are excited...

Engineers’ concerns ignored, puts energy infrastructure at risk

Only 44% of recommendations to improve the safety and performance of critical energy infrastructure are fully implemented, new research reveals. A survey, conducted with transformer...

Equinix acquires IO UK’s data centre business

Equinix has closed a transaction for the purchase of IO UK's data centre operating business in Slough, UK. The facility, which will be renamed...

Expansion in hyperscale data centres

Data from Synergy Research Group shows that the number of large data centres operated by hyperscale providers hit the 300 mark in December 2016,...

Funding secured for KAO data centre campus

KAO Data Campus, a new £200m, 35-acre science and technology data centre campus located on the London-Stansted-Cambridge corridor, has raised an extra £33m through...

Guidance issued on maintaining UPS

In a data centre, the UPS acts as the first line of defence, protecting against a range of power problems – from voltage spikes...

London: is the capital still the epicentre for data centres?

Aegis Data has speculated that London “may no longer be the epicentre for the data centre community”. The Surrey-based co-location provider says that third-party...

New public API to simplify management at the edge

Schneider Electric has released a public API (application programming interface) for cloud-based software EcoStruxure IT Expert. The first public API for EcoStruxure IT Expert,...

No ‘mass exodus’ to the cloud

A global survey of over 1,000 data centre executives, conducted by the Uptime Institute, reveals that hybrid datacentre infrastructure is now the dominant strategy...

Power distribution at the rack level

With a huge demand for computing devices, particularly enterprise servers that are generally housed in data centres or co-location facilities, and a commensurate rise...

Protecting mission critical infrastructure

Andy Bird, from GTT Wireless, reveals the role ruggedised enclosures play in outdoor wireless projects, and the key capabilities needed to achieve full protection...

Riello UPS launches two new systems

  Introducing the Next Energy and Sentinel Dual: Power protection expert, Riello UPS, has unveiled two new products designed to meet the power requirements of tomorrow. Next...

Schneider Electric and HPE collaborate on solution for micro data centres

Schneider Electric has announced it has collaborated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on HPE Micro Datacenter. The collaboratively engineered converged infrastructure solution provides end-to-end...

Solar energy to power Apple’s data centre

NV Energy and Apple have announced an agreement to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada by early 2019. The projects will...