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Energy efficiency looms large for data centre industry

Managing consumption and carbon footprint driving trends toward regulation, standardisation, and the search for generator alternatives.

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Schneider Electric expands ruggedised EcoStruxure Micro Data Center offer

Turnkey solution & ruggedised for fast and simplified deployment in wide range of environments.

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Aggreko establishes Stockholm Depot to support Nordics

Temporary utilities specialist Aggreko has opened a new depot in Stockholm in an effort to provide continued support to the growing Nordic data centre market.

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Locating data centres in Scotland could cut carbon intensity by 11x

Analysis highlights large variations in Great Britain’s carbon intensity levels.

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Kao Data joins UTC Heathrow’s ‘Digital Futures Programme’

Kao Data joins the founding partners at the UK’s first dedicated University Technical College for data centre and engineering professionals.

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Keysource launches data centre 'state of the industry' report

Keysource has launched its State of the Industry Report 2022 which gathers the views and insights from over 250 IT Directors in UK & Europe. This is the fifth year of the report and it showed once again that the datacentre and technology sectors continue to grow with no signs of slowing, with investment growth being driven by continued digitalisation, IT transformation and data growth. This is despite the current global economic and political uncertainties.

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NTT opens new data centre in South Africa

The new data centre, which forms part of NTT’s expansion into Africa, will have a capacity of 12MW covering 6,000m² once fully built out.

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Kao Data appoints Gratte Brothers Ltd to support High Performance Data Centre expansion

Kao Data has appointed Gratte Brothers Ltd (GBL) as principal contractor to oversee the development of its Slough data centre, KLON-06.

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Data centres feel the crunch of escalating costs and labour race with advanced manufacturing

Data centre clients are facing project costs which are 15 percent higher than last year on average, with escalating prices for energy and key materials squeezing margins.

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Siemon launches Data Centre Industry Insight Series

Leading global network infrastructure specialist Siemon has launched a series of data centre focussed tech briefs, designed to help data centre infrastructure professionals gain a better understanding of how the value derived from their data centre is changing in light of digital transformation and newly emerging technologies and applications.

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Research reveals sustainability action gap

Reports by 451 Research and Forrester indicate most of the IT and data centre industry is at the beginning stage of a sustainability journey.

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Vertiv launches Guide to Data Centre Sustainability

New resource shares best practices and emerging technologies to help the industry advance toward “net-zero” operations.

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STACK Infrastructure to expand EMEA footprint into Frankfurt

Seventeen-acre campus represents STACK’s entry into the key “FLAP” data center market as it continues to establish a scalable presence in the region.

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Outages cause financial 'ouch'

New research uncovers increasing costs of downtime, with lengthy resolution times, creating financial and reputational damage for organisations.

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Strong data centre industry growth

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey findings highlight the growing, industry-wide need to achieve meaningful efficiency gains, evolve sustainability reporting practices, prevent costly outages and more.

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Videos

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.
Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer, discusses the findings of the company’s inaugural Digital Maturity Index, which looks at the ways in which organisations have, or have not as yet, embraced the technologies and processes required to implement a successful digital transformation strategy. The Index identifies doers, dabblers and dawdlers, at varying stages of their digital journeys, identifying what distinguishes each group, but also some common challenges which still remain.
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.
In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.

Expert Opinions

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