Manufacturing a brighter future: optimising energy use for businesses with critical processes

Data centres, manufacturing sites, airports, hospitals, and other businesses with critical operations, are all very different environments with a common interest; the requirement for...

Infrastructure Masons offers scholarships for CNet education programmes

CNet is partnering with Infrastructure Masons to provide scholarships to those wanting to progress their career within the data centre sector. iMasons are offering...

Outages continue to hit data centre operators

Outages continue to cause significant problems for data centre operators, according to the findings of the Uptime Institute’s 9th annual data centre survey. The survey...

Schneider announces expansion of DCIM portfolio

Schneider Electric has expanded its DCIM portfolio with the introduction of EcoStruxure IT Advisor. Harnessing the power of the cloud, the solution delivers a simplified...

Investment in Ireland to top €10bn by 2022

Ireland will see inward investment from data centres top €10 billion by 2022, according to the latest industry update report from Host In Ireland...

Digital Realty expands in Dublin

Digital Realty has opened its second data centre on its Profile Park campus in Dublin, Ireland.  The five-megawatt expansion provides new and existing customers...

Telcos to grapple with energy costs as 5G deployment advances

Energy costs are among the top concerns for telcos, as 5G deployment rapidly advances,  focusing the attention on energy management solutions - from energy...

Equinix officially opens £90M data centre in London

Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has officially opened the doors of its new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre at its London...

Equinix acquires Switch Datacenters’ AMS1 data centre business in Amsterdam

Equinix has announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of Switch Datacenters' AMS1 data centre business in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in an all-cash transaction for...

Cloud-based cooling and the importance of seamless communication

Karl Lycett, Rittal’s Product Manager for Climate Control, says that cooling units are playing an increasingly important role in Industry 4.0. Seamless communication between...

Piller receives ‘Future Thinking’ 2019 Data Centre Award

Piller, the German innovator of mission critical uninterruptible power systems, has received recognition for its data centre energy technology at the Future Thinking Data...

Equinix appoints new president for EMEA business

Equinix has appointed Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as President, EMEA. Eugene Bergen succeeds Eric Schwartz who served as President, EMEA, since 2008 and was appointed to...

Global law firm partners with Equinix to build out digital edge

Global law firm, HFW, has collaborated with Equinix to build out its digital edge in key markets including Dubai, London, Hong Kong, Melbourne and...

Schneider Electric expands cloud-based DCIM portfolio

Schneider Electric has introduced EcoStruxure IT Advisor, further expanding its cloud-based DCIM portfolio of solutions. EcoStruxure IT Advisor delivers a simplified way to deploy data...

The future impact of the hyperscale data centre

There will be more than 600 hyperscale data centres worldwide by 2020, which could have a beneficial impact on the cloud market, according to...

Schneider Electric combines physical infrastructure with Cisco’s HyperFlex Edge for new micro data centre...

Figures from Gartner suggest that 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created at the edge by 2025. However, security, speed of deployment, remote management...

CryrusOne’s London data centres move to 100% renewable energy

CyrusOne has announced that its London I and London II data centre facilities are now running on a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move...

Data Centre World: Researchers pilot energy efficient design with Boden Type Data Centre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQIaKzR6DqA   Speaking at Data Centre World, Jon Summers, research lead at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), said that there are important lessons to...

Data Centre World: are data centres missing out on energy efficiency savings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYeASfaVPNw   The impact of 5G, the evolution of the Edge and rising energy costs were among the major topics for discussion at Data Centre...

Data Centre World: could dual chemistry battery technology open the door for demand-side response?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG5TgG0vn-Y   There is increasing interest in participating in grid balancing services (demand-side response) according to Yuasa’s Stephen Wheeler. Speaking at Data Centre World, he...