British Gas, part of the Centrica group, has won the Data Centre Project of the Year Award at the UK IT Industry Awards 2014 run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing. The company was presented with the Award by comedian Rich Hall at a gala evening event held at the Battersea Park Events Arena, London.
Read MoreAs our dependence on data continues to rise, so do the associated risks. Every second lost, every transaction missed and every byte of data destroyed can result in significant financial losses. According to our research, companies lose an average of US$7,900 per minute when their data centres go down. Downtime is simply not an option for data centre operators and owners who are expected to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Read MoreGlobal Bitcoin mining equipment company KnC Miner has decided to grow its business with a 20 MW datacenter in Boden, in The Node Pole region near the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The investment - called Boden 2 - bring the site to a total of 30 MW and 15 000 square meters. The new datacenter will be operational by the end of 2014 and will be used for cloud services and for hosting of specialized Bitcoin mining hardware to a global client-base.
Read MoreCentral Finance, an experienced and professional commercial finance company based in Birmingham has supported ambitious Midlands’ based technology business Datatech UK to invest in one of the most sophisticated data centres in the UK and Europe’s greenest data centres.
Read MoreRacks Central offers customers connectivity from its Singapore data centres to the communications hubs of Asia-Pacific with Epsilon.
Read MoreGlobal bank Citi puts in place innovative energy efficiency measures to cut energy use by 10% at its London data centre.
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