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Nearly one-third of organisations (30%) said they had lost data as a result of a data centre outage in the past year, while more than four in ten (42%) said they had experienced a period of downtime. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Unitrends, which polled more than 400 respondents from organisations of all sizes and industries about the challenges and trends that IT departments and admins face when protecting data from downtime and disasters.

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Equinix and GIC agree to form joint venture

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Equinix has announced the signing on June 27, 2019, of a greater than U.S.$1.0 billion initial joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, to develop and operate xScale data centers in Europe.

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Rackspace LON5 facility receives OCP Ready recognition

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The Open Compute Project announced today that the Rackspace LON5, a state-of-the-art data centre facility located in Crawley, West Sussex achieved OCP Ready status.

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Modular data centre market to register at a CAGR of 22.3% by 2028

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The global modular data centre market is expected to register a global CAGR of 22.3% during 2018 – 2028, with Western Europe and North America accounting for approximately 60% market value shares by the end of the forecast period.

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WorldStream embarks on Phase 2 expansion at its flagship data centre

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WorldStream, a fast-growing hosting provider delivering security-focused solutions including dedicated servers and colocation as well as global connectivity and DDoS protection through their proprietary global network with 10Tbps (!) of bandwidth available, nnounces a 268-rack expansion at its company-owned, flagship data center in Naaldwijk, the Netherlands. This 2nd phase expansion means that WorldStream, within the course of a year will be doubling its facility capacity to 536 data center...

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Colt Data Centre Services expands in Frankfurt

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First phase of delivery expected to complete in Q4 2020.

?436 million generated by each new UK data centre

The Data Economy Report by Digital Realty reveals that the UK’s data is worth ?73.3 billion to...

Education key to helping resellers achieve cloud revenue ambitions

Shortage of sales and support skills and perceived immaturity of cloud market main factors in...

Atos and ECMWF launch Centre of Excellence in Weather & Climate Modelling

Atos and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), have announced a new...

Data centre investment focuses on upgrades and retrofits

451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VotE): Datacenters Q2 2015 quarterly survey on...

Mace bolsters data centre construction leadership team

Mace, the global programme and project delivery consultant and construction expert, has made two...

Smart Buildings Show Opens its 2021 event for Registration

The UK’s cornerstone Smart Buildings Show returns for its largest event to-date. The...

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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