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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...

'Alarming' gaps in US data centres’ cyber security defences

Rahul Powar, explains that, as cyber threats increasingly target critical infrastructure, a new analysis from Red Sift exposes major email security weaknesses across the US’s largest data center operators....

How real cyber crises expose hidden organisational weaknesses

In this discussion, Marie Hargraves, Principal Crisis Advisor at Semperis, explores how organisations can move beyond firefighting to build true cyber resilience. She explores how fragmented communication,...

North-East ideally placed to deliver digital infrastructure for an AI-fuelled digital future - Part 2

Following on from our highly successful North-East data centre roadshow, which took place in Newcastle earlier this year, we keep the region’s data centre conversation going, as Mike Hoy, CTO at Pulsant, Zac...

Why cybersecurity must move beyond IT and into the boardroom

Cyber risk is increasingly being viewed as a business resilience challenge rather than solely an IT concern. In this interview, Helen Barge, Principal at Howden Risk Advisory, discusses the importance of...

Expert Opinions

Redefining hydronic infrastructure for D2C cooling

Rethinking hydronic design with polymer piping systems is key to efficient, scalable, and durable D2C liquid cooling in high-density data centers.

Agentic AI exposes enterprise governance gaps

By Ismail Amla, Senior Vice President Kyndryl Consult at Kyndryl.

AI is accelerating application development, but control is now the limiting factor

By Adam Luciano, Vice President of Product Management, MariaDB plc.

Emissions claims need to stack up: data centre energy under the microscope

Suneel Appan, Data Centre Sector Lead at Future Biogas, argues that the era of unchecked emissions claims is over, with credible net zero energy strategies now under intense scrutiny – especially for data...

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