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ManageEngine opens first exclusive data centres for the UK

Published in Design + Optimisation IT Management + Service Security + Compliance

ManageEngine is opening two ISO/IEC-27001-certified data centre facilities in London and Manchester. These will be its first data centres in the UK. This announcement brings the total number of data centre sites to 16 for ManageEngine globally and represents a USD 1 million investment.

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Preparing data centres for reoccurring heatwaves

Published in Design + Optimisation Power & Cooling

By Paul Lewis, Senior Operations Director, Telehouse.

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Shining the sustainability spotlight on water usage and fusion power

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Power & Cooling

Tom Kingham, Director Engineering Solutions Europe at CyrusOne, discusses the importance of truly efficient water usage within the data centre, while also providing a fascinating insight into the possibilities of fusion power as a virtually unlimited, clean future energy source – and one that is not dependent on the weather!

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Taking data centre sustainability to the next level?

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Yuval Bachar, Founder and CEO of ECL, outlines the why, when and how of what he believes is the world’s first modular, sustainable, off-grid data centre that uses green hydrogen as its primary power source. ECL plans to deliver data centres in 1MW blocks, with 99.9999% uptime.

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Designing for decarbonisation: A whole new species of data centre is emerging

Published in Cloud Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

While energy consumption remains a critical element of sustainability, the data centre of the future must consider more than power alone. By Chris Pennington, Director of Energy & Sustainability at Iron Mountain Data Centres.

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Global Technical Realty completes first phase of Underground Data Centre

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

Global Technical Realty (GTR), a $1bn European build-to-suit data center platform - funded by KKR, a leading global investment firm – has confirmed successful completion of a critical first phase in the development of its IS One facility in Petah Tikva, Israel’s premier data centre hub.

Huawei helps customers innovate with Intelligent Cloud Data Centres

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei held a summit themed of “Activate Intelligence: The Innovative Path to Intelligent Cloud Data Centers”. At the summit, Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei’s IT Product Line, delivered a speech “Activate Intelligence: Innovative Path to Huawei Intelligent Full-Stack Cloud”. The representatives from finance, healthcare, energy, and Internet companies shared their joint innovation practices in AI, cloud, and HPC fields. Huawei awarded customers with the “Cloud Data Center Super User Award 2018” to commend their consistent support to Huawei. Also, Huawei released the full-stack private cloud solution FusionCloud 6.5 and introduced the new-generation mission-critical cloud storage FusionStorage. These solutions add new capabilities to Huawei’s substantial array of cloud and storage support to lay a solid foundation for building an intelligent world.

Bridging the energy gap critical for data centre delivery and growth in APAC region

Data centres facing longer lead time for sufficient grid capacity.

Equinix opens Melbourne data centre

Expansion of Platform Equinix supports businesses’ digital transformation through interconnection.

IO appoints Nigel Stevens as UK MD

IO, a leading data center services company, has appointed Nigel Stevens as its Managing Director in the United Kingdom. In this role, he will lead IO’s expansion into Europe with the newest data center coming online this summer.

Natural Gas Engines for Data Centres - Will gas replace diesel as a common primary or emergency power choice?

Meeting today’s data centre stand-by power operational requirements, Natural Gas (NG) generators are becoming cost competitive with diesel generators and maintain a better emission profile to help meet GHG abatement ambitions.

BCS appoints for German expansion

Business Critical Solutions (BCS), the specialist services provider to the international digital infrastructure industry, has appointed a General Manager, Germany to support its continued expansion in the region.

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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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