Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Middle EastÂ
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to open an infrastructure region in the Middle East by early 2019. The new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region...
Equinix data centre expansion in Silicon Valley
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has announced the opening of its newest International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Silicon Valley, located...
Keppel invests in developer of first waterborne data centre
Keppel has invested US$10 million in data centre startup Nautilus Data Technologies. Based in California, Nautilus is an internationally recognised company that employs patented water-cooling...
Uptime Institute launches research organisation
The Uptime Institute has announced the launch of Uptime Institute Research, a new research organisation aimed at bringing practical and forward-looking information and insights...
Microsoft’s Dublin data centre forced to build own power station
Microsoft is being forced to build its own powerstation in Dublin for its data centres because the local electricity grid is unable to cope,...
Florida mandates backup generators for nursing homes following deaths
In Florida, nursing homes across the state have been given 60 days to equip their facilities with backup generators, after the deaths of eight...
KAO appoints Gerard Thibault as CTO as London data centre starts run-up to completion
KAO Data has appointed Gerard Thibault as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) to oversee the final commissioning of the Kao Data Campus in Harlow, Essex...
Data centre demand predicted to override Brexit fears: discussion at DCD
The DCD Zettastructure conference and exhibition is returning to Old Billingsgate on the 7-8 November and is expected to be attended by over 1,500...
Facebook’s energy-efficient data centre will help warm local homes
When Facebook announced the Odense Data Centre, it aimed to build one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centres in the world. The facility...
Rackspace announces agreement to acquire Datapipe
 Rackspace has announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Datapipe, one of the world’s leading providers of managed services across public and private clouds,...
Riello UPS names PSE Power as preferred partner in Ireland
Leading power manufacturer, Riello UPS, has announced a partnership with PSE Power, one of Ireland’s largest independent suppliers of power protection and energy management...
JCB wins £10m contract for gas powered generators
JCB has secured a deal worth £10 million which will see the company’s first major entry into the gas powered generator sector. The company’s Power...
Issue of ‘Zinc Whiskers’ risks data centre outagesÂ
Mike Meyer, sales director at ABM Critical Solutions, commented that part of the problem is knowing how to prevent the whiskers from entering the...
Kolos to build hyper-scale ‘green’ facility near Artic Circle
Kolos is reported to be building the largest green data centre in the world in Ballangen, Norway, 225 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. The...
E.ON integrates Fraport AG emergency power generators into virtual power plant
E.ON's virtual power plant continues to grow. Four emergency power generators for Fraport AG are now linked to E.ON's energy platform. This means that,...
Apple to build new ‘green’ data centre in Iowa
Apple has announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data centre in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the...
Dakota Carrier Network to build Tier III data centre in Fargo
DCN has announced it will build a 14,000-square-foot Tier III data centre in Fargo to meet growing demand from customers for secure, reliable data...
Equinix to install largest deployment of fuel cells for data centres
Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data centre company, has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between a subsidiary of Southern Company and...
Pulsant expands cloud provision with LayerV acquisition
The new compliance solutions will be most beneficial to customers in the public sector, retail, legal and financial services where statutory compliance and data...