Open Compute and data centre architectures

A new White Paper from Schneider Electric considers the capital costs of OCP-compliant data centres, including the implications for redundancy, availability and flexibility of upstream power infrastructure.

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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 extend this offering to the Netherlands as well. The Dutch market launch will then be followed by other countries including Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and global export regions. The European launch will be accompanied by Minkels’ presentation of the MatrixCube at Infosecurity (15 and 16 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium).

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Green Experts reach consensus on ICTFOOTPRINT.eu innovative approach for measuring energy efficiency

Energy consumption in the ICT sector accounts for almost 10% of electricity consumption in the European Union. By decreasing emissions by just 15%, the ICT sector can make savings of ˆ600 billion by 2020.

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Renewable energy for Scottish data centre

DataVita, a Scottish datacentre provider, has selected SSE as its chosen energy supplier, meeting the objective of powering the Fortis datacentre using 100% renewable energy sources. This will allow customers to reduce carbon emissions by 95% for their IT services hosted in the facility.

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Virtual power distribution

Nlyte Software has announced the Virtual Power Distribution Unit (V-PDU) availability as part of the company’s leading Data Center Service Management (DCSM) Solution.  The V-PDU offers equivalent capabilities and functionality of   hardware-based PDU’s but at a 90 percent cost savings.

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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), one of the world’s fastest-growing data centre...
The AI-based cooling system implemented in FR6 with energy intelligence startup etalytics had...
Schneider Electric has introduced an enhanced version of eConversion (formerly known as...
Mitsubishi Electric will again attend the Data Centre World Exhibition at the London ExCeL Centre...
EU countries are struggling to reach their 32% renewable energy usage target by 2030.
Data centres facing longer lead time for sufficient grid capacity.
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