Uptime Institute and TIA agree on clear separation between their respective benchmarking systems

The Uptime Institute and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have announced steps to bring success to the future of the data and communications industry by establishing a clear and concise lexicon for the design of data centers as they are planned, constructed and operated worldwide. Both the Uptime Institute and TIA believe that it is in the best interests of the industry to permanently differentiate their respective data center infrastructure benchmarking systems and going...

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Consortium launches three-year project to boost energy efficiency of urban data centres

The European Commission has awarded a €2.9m grant to a consortium of manufacturers, users, and academics to develop new technologies to build smarter, more energy-efficient data centres.

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Shrink the data centre, not just the data

It’s no surprise that the demand for data storage capacity in data centers has been growing at an astronomical rate. Unrelenting data growth, driven by big data requirements, mobile data, cloud storage and connected devices – “the internet of things” – is outpacing major improvements in power consumption, size and storage administration expenses and creating a data storage efficiency gap, according to experts at Skyera Inc.

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Delphix Modernisation Engine to help organisations save billions

Delphix has released the Delphix Modernisation Engine, a new product designed to reduce the risk and cost associated with data center modernisation projects, including data center migrations and consolidations, migrations to the cloud, conversions from Unix to Linux, and application retirement. Today, many private and public-sector organisations estimate that modernisation projects will take years and cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, while impacting existing operations. As a...

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Who are you letting into your data centre?

8 Solutions warns against unchecked and untrained technicians being allowed inside tightly controlled and secure data centres.

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Lansweeper, provider of the IT asset management solution of the same name, has announced its new...
According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, Data Center Physical Infrastructure...
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Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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