UNIFI-IX joins Telehouse Carrier-Interconnect
Telehouse, a leading global provider of data centre services, has been selected by UNIFI-IX a new internet exchange, to host its services including an...
UPS offers protection for electron accelerator research facility
Piller is to supply MAX IV Laboratory, a world-leading Swedish electron accelerator research facility, with uninterruptible power for its highly sensitive and sophisticated research...
UPSL changes name to Kohler; brand change reflects broader power generation and protection capabilities
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited (UPSL), a subsidiary of Kohler Co., and the exclusive supplier of PowerWAVE UPS, generator and emergency lighting products, is changing...
Vertiv expands rack PDU offering with acquisition of Geist
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has acquired Geist, a privately owned manufacturer of Rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs) and associated data centre power products....
Vertiv extends partnership with Russian data centre operator IXcellerate
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has announced at Datacloud Europe the extension of its partnership with IXcellerate. The Russian data centre provider recently launched...
What do specifiers frequently get wrong when implementing a UPS solution?
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When specifying UPS, the type of load being supported is often overlooked and there are many issues that can have an impact on...
What needs to be done to ensure resilience and efficiency of UPS technologies?
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As data centres comprise a high proportion of an organisation’s power consumption, and UPSs are major components within them, optimising UPS efficiency can...
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...
Younicos awards battery-based energy storage project to Morrison
Morrison Utility Connections, a major projects Independent Connection Provider (ICP) and part of Morrison Utility Services, has been commissioned to build and connect one...
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.Â
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...
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...
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...
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...