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Lowering PUEs to save energy

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According to data centre consortium Uptime Institute, a typical data centre has an average PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 2.5. This means that for every 2.5W in at the utility meter, only 1W is delivered to the load. Yet the institute estimates that most facilities can achieve a 1.6 PUE using...

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451 Research's Cloud Price Index fell 1.32% over the past eight weeks to $2.53 at the start of December due to price cuts of up to 79% by Google, and reductions of up to 43% on bandwidth by AWS.

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2015 predictions from Kevin St Cyr, senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions, CommScope.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

By Wieland Alge, VP & GM of EMEA at Barracuda Networks.

What's so special about a low attenuation interconnect?

By Willy Rietveld, TE Connectivity. (W.Rietveld@TE.com)

Invu’s predictions for 2015

These predictions for 2015 are from Stuart Evans, Chief Technology Officer, at Invu.

2015 prediction - courtesy of Rackspace

Nigel Beighton, VP Technology, Rackspace – predictions for 2015.

Perforce announces technology predictions for 2015

The year ahead will see other industries and disciplines adopt software development technology and...

ExtraHop predicts an IT security shakeup

ExtraHop has announced its top predictions for enterprise IT in 2015. Based on insight from...

Six enterprise IT predictions for 2015

By David Gibson, VP at Varonis Systems.

Ormuco Communications selects MigSolv for data centre services

Ormuco Communications, the global Cloud, managed services and telecommunications provider has...

One third of European businesses to introduce wearable technology to the workplace in 2015

However, over three quarters of businesses in the UK, France and Germany admit they have no policy...

IDC reveals data centre predictions for 2015

By 2018, third-party service providers will own a quarter of all IT assets installed in...

DATA4 Group appoints Adam Levine Chief Commercial Officer

DATA4 Group, a rapidly expanding European provider of Data Centre solutions, announced today that...

Six Degrees Group moves to St Katharine Docks

Six Degrees Group (6DG) thas opened its flagship new 22,000 sq. head office in Commodity Quay at St...

Interview with Honeywell at DCW 2026

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From reactive to predictive IT: using AI to transform support models

Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at TeamViewer, discusses how the company is using its Tia (TeamViewer Intelligent Assistant) and a ‘shift left’ approach to move IT support from reactive to more...

GRDs help future-proof data centres

Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps,...

Expert Opinions

Scaling Flotek: a closer look at one of the UK’s fast-growing MSPs

Flotek Group has grown rapidly in a market known for complexity and fragmentation. In this exclusive conversation, CEO Jay Ball discusses the thinking behind that growth, from early structural decisions to a...

Data centres and the fire hazard: why fire protection enclosures are essential

As UK data centre capacity continues to expand, ensuring electrical resilience under fire conditions is an important design priority. Fire protection enclosures play a vital role in maintaining circuit...

Cutting valve energy use by up to 80% in data centre cooling

In data centres, direct-to-chip liquid cooling relies on fast-acting valves to regulate coolant flow and protect servers from overheating. Yet across server racks operating 24/7, the cumulative energy demand...

Don’t let pumps become another bottleneck to data centre growth

Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help...

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