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Data centre investment focuses on upgrades and retrofits

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451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VotE): Datacenters Q2 2015 quarterly survey on datacenter trends indicates that, despite increased investment in cloud and colocation providers, 87% of datacenter operators surveyed from North America and Europe are maintaining or increasing their datacenter facility spending, with 25% expecting to increase spending over the next 90 days.

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By Zahl Limbuwala, CEO, Romonet.

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Schneider Electric has collaborated with its partner Mardix to create a flagship colocation data centre facility in West London. The data centre operator had a requirement for metering all incoming and outgoing circuits on their low voltage 400V AC switchboards to meet energy efficiency standards and to drive down energy costs. It also needed to perform metering and branch power monitoring of their Power Distribution Units supplying their client’s server racks.

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Cannon Technologies has launched the Cannon Globe Trotter, a pioneering transportable modular data centre solution. Globe Trotter has been specifically designed for use in a wide variety of applications, including extreme environments ranging from desert and tropical to arctic and maritime, with virtually no prior preparation and almost instant operation.

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Keysource has been awarded the contract to deliver an industry leading modular data centre facility for ICT experts ITPS at the company’s new site near Newcastle upon Tyne.

Digita' disruption - redefining the business world

The effect of digital disruption on business has the potential to overturn incumbents and reshape markets faster than perhaps any force in history, according to a report released today by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation (DBT Center), an initiative between Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Electrical versus optical - history repeats itself

The latest blog from Willy Rietveld, TE Connectivity. W.Rietveld@TE.com

Continued strong demand for VIRTUS intelligent LONDON2 data centre drives early Phase 2 build out

2015 demand for VIRTUS intelligent data centre services already set to double record 2014 sales.

Romonet calculates TCO

Romonet has launched the U.S. version of Romonet Portal, a cloud-based software suite the enables...

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