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Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans due to increasing outages

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

Many data centres are in danger of experiencing significant downtime during a power failure as it’s revealed that one quarter of UK energy decision makers do not have a contingency plan in place.

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V-Lock security system from Siemon improves cabinet access control

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Asset Management

Unplanned data centre downtime can cost the business thousands of dollars per minute. Whilst power outages and network failures range amongst the most common causes, industry reports show that data centre outages are often attributed to human error. In a colocation facility human error can be as simple as accidentally accessing the wrong cabinet for patching and maintenance work.

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Certification tackles growing sustainability issues of data centres

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

The environmental impact of data usage is growing fast. Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers are now equal to those of the global air travel. To help tackle the problem, the sustainability certification TCO Certified will be expanded to include network equipment, data storage products and servers.

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Data centre traffic control

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Asset Management

New technology shows in simulation that flow completion times can be shortened by up to 95%.

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Creating smarter, more productive workplaces

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Panduit EMEA, the data centre physical infrastructure and connectivity company, has installed an intelligent sensing lighting solution for enterprise and data centre environments transitioning to Power over Ethernet (PoE), at its London Customer Briefing Centre (CBC). Developed with Cisco and Signify, the solution provides a complete ecosystem which is interoperable with smart LEDs, LiFi, WiFi and third party IoT devices and sensing applications, to provide unprecedented capability for lighting...

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Improving operational efficiencies and reducing risk

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Asset Management

Software-driven process boosts efficiency in operations up to 15 percent while mitigating risk at every stage of the data centre lifecycle.

Minkels launches its MatrixCube mini data centre solution in Europe

After the successful initial launch of the MatrixCube in Belgium this past year, Minkels will now...

CNet Training celebrates 20 years of education

Global leader in data centre and network infrastructure education and training, CNet Training, is...

451 Research predicts accelerated growth for key data centre markets in India

Driven by rapid cloud growth, India’s colocation and managed hosting market to reach almost $2bn...

Certification for container data centers from Uptime Institute

Huawei says that its cloud container data center has been awarded Tier III Design Certification by...

Schneider Electric UK IT executives complete charity ride raising over £6,000 for charity

A team of 10 executives from Schneider Electric’s UK IT Business have successfully completed...

Tripwire introduces Asset Discovery Solution  

Industry leader introduces new solution to expand security visibility and improve proactive risk...

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