Norland Managed Services, a leading provider of engineering services to data centres and other critical environments, has warned that without a comprehensive risk management approach to their data centre facilities, organisations face the risk of costly failures and significant harm to their reputation. Norland’s new white paper “Critical systems: You are the weakest link” acknowledges human error as the biggest cause of data centre failure and sets out a 10 step process to...
Read MoreNorland held its seventh annual supply partner event on 3rd October. More than 700 delegates attended what was a fantastic forum for Norland’s managers, along with the company’s customers and supply partners, to discuss service delivery and industry trends. Supply partner ‘LCC Support Services’ were named Norland’s ‘Supplier of the Year’.
Read MoreCNet Training, the globally recognised leader in network infrastructure and data centre professional training, is growing its technical team of instructors even further to meet the on-going needs of the industry. Highly experienced Tony Hassett has joined the technical team to initially deliver the Certified Network Cable Installer (CDCI®) program and progress to teach the sought after programs from the renowned Global Data Centre & Network Infrastructure Education Framework, originated...
Read MoreEaton has announced the addition of new three-phase models to its popular and versatile Eaton 9PX range of compact high-efficiency Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs). Available throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the new models are an ideal choice for IT and industrial applications where a three-phase power source is conveniently available and outstanding energy efficiency is a prime requirement.
Read MoreCentral London colocation data centre, City Lifeline, has revealed that although 80 per cent of IT personnel consider the management of their data resources to be critical to their company, over a third lack confidence in their current data centre solutions.
Read MoreVirtus says that construction work has commenced on LONDON2; its new flagship data centre in West London, designed to meet the growing demand for scalable, reliable, on-demand colocation services. The data centre will deploy a new ground breaking cooling technology which will dramatically decrease energy consumption, bringing site power usage effectiveness (PUE) to below 1.2 and delivering substantial TCO reductions to Virtus’ clients.
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