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HireHigher opens students’ eyes to exciting career opportunities in data centre industry

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

As part of its campaign to address the ongoing skills shortage in the data centre and cloud industry, HireHigher has brought together Rising Stars within the industry and 60 sixth form students from two London schools (Logic School and St Marks) in a productive day of workshops and a tour of CyrusOne’s datacentres.

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AtlasEdge forms strategic partnership with PacketFabric

Published in Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Networks + Telecoms

Partnership enables PacketFabric’s TruNaaS™ Converge Platform to be used by Europe’s leading Edge data centre provider.

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Video promises 'enlightenment' for Europe's data centre users

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

A new animated video from the European Data Centre Association provides an education in the criticality of data centres, the cloud and digital infrastructure to modern Europe, clearing up potential misconceptions for those curious to know more about the sector.

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Colt expands partnership with Equinix in Singapore and Hong Kong

Published in Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Networks + Telecoms

New software-driven connectivity simplifies user experience and helps business grow and scale.

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DCS talks to Iron Mountain about Sustainability and the Data Centre

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

Chris Pennington, Director of Energy & Sustainability at Iron Mountain, shares some fascinating insights on the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry, alongside detailing many of the ways in which the sector is already making significant progress to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Equity, not equality, will ensure women aren’t left behind in digital transformation

Published in Digital Business Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

By Claire Thomas, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Hitachi Vantara.

West Berkshire Council switches on data centre refresh

West Berkshire Council has completed an 18-month £200,000 upgrade of its main data centre with help from Redcentric.

Why Energy Strategy is key to data centre growth

“Why energy strategy is key to data centre growth” is the new white paper from Enel X. In it, sector experts examine how data centres can cut emissions while supporting grid innovation.

APT & Schneider Electric deliver resilient data centre power upgrade

University of Stirling completes consolidation challenge.

Engage digitally, or die!

Organisations that don’t embrace digital customer engagement channels – that’s web chat, social media, SMS, smart phones and mobile applications, and even video - into their engagement strategies within the next two years, are likely to see their customers jump ship to competitors that do. In fact, the digital customer engagement revolution is here, and is forcing organisations to adapt their customer service strategies, or die. That’s according to new research published today by Dimension Data in its annual Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report. This year, 901 organisations in 72 countries across Asia Pacific, Australia, the Americas, Middle East and Africa, and Europe participated.

Data centre physical infrastructure market shows good growth

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, data center physical infrastructure revenues grew 11 percent in 2021, despite supply chain constraints limiting growth in the second half of the year. As those supply chain constraints are forecast to remain throughout 2022, unit growth is forecast to be limited, with rising ASPs supporting revenue growth in 2022.

Inspired Energy steps up its support for data centres with launch of new PUE tool

With the spotlight firmly on sustainability following COP26, Inspired Energy has launched an industry-leading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Calculator to highlight the energy efficiency of data centres. The brand new tool has been designed to help energy intensive data centres simply and quickly identify the potential energy, carbon and financial savings they could make through energy efficiency measures.

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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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