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Comparing the costs of prefabricated versus traditional data centres

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Prefabricated modular data centres offer many benefits including flexibility, predictability and speed of deployment. Cost can be seen as a barrier, but a systematic comparison provides detailed insights into the variance in capital expenditure between a prefab and a traditional purpose-built data centre.

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Safeguarding crime data

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has awarded the management of two of its critical data centres to Keysource, the critical environment specialists, as part of the wider strategic implementation of the force’s technology transformation programme.

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Equinix launches four new data centres

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Company to invest more than $4.5B in Platform Equinix in 2016 to address changing IT needs of global business.

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DE-CIX Istanbul expands to Zenium Istanbul One

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

DE-CIX's Istanbul Internet exchange will open a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the Zenium Istanbul One data center in Istanbul, Turkey. This new PoP will further enhance the reach of DE-CIX Istanbul, which delivers carrier and data-center neutral Internet exchange services for Internet service providers from Turkey, the Caucasus region, Persia and the Middle East.

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The University of Portsmouth is to host a new centre of excellence for satellite data, which will promote economic growth in the UK’s space sector.

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Global Switch commences construction of final stages of Sydney East Data Centre

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Global Switch, the leading owner and operator of large scale cloud and carrier neutral data centre space in Europe and Asia-Pacific, has commenced construction of the last two stages of its Sydney East data centre following a pre-commitment made by a leading cloud provider. The new data centre is located on Global Switch’s Sydney campus adjacent to the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) and next to its existing Sydney West data centre.

Customer satisfaction rises overall

Customer satisfaction drops as customer service agents more frequently use apologetic or polite...

2015 to mark the year of disruptive technology, says Advanced 365 report

Internet of Things, Intercloud, Avatars and Software Defined Networks to dominate business agendas.

Worldwide datacenter colocation and wholesale market will reach $48bn by 2021

Equinix and Digital Realty remain the market leaders among nearly 1,200 worldwide suppliers.

The ever increasing challenges of managing a data centre

By Glyn Bowden, Founder and CEO Lucr, SNIA Europe UK Country Committee member.

Downtime costs and consequences are worsening

New research details latest digital infrastructure failure rates, increasing outage costs and...

Data centre offers OCP 'option'

Switch Datacenters, a European provider of build-to-suit corporate data centers and...

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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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