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DataVita achieves Uptime Institute certification

DataVita, one of Scotland’s premier datacentre providers, has been awarded Tier III Constructed Certification by The Uptime Institute (TUI) for phase 1 of the Fortis Datacentre, becoming the first dedicated co-location provider in the UK to achieve this. Demonstrating its commitment to build Scotland’s first world class co-location datacentre, after achieving Stage 1 – Design certification – in 2015, DataVita has achieved stage two – Construction certification and plans to...

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8 Solutions expands sales resource with key appointment

8 Solutions has appointed Colin Henry as Business Development Director responsible for further growing the company’s presence within the UK.

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Siemon exceeds ISO/IEC class II channel requirements with TERA

Siemon says that its fully shielded TERA end-to-end twisted-pair copper cabling system exceeds the draft class II requirements of ISO/IEC 11801-1 (Committee Draft N2483). Class II channels and permanent links are qualified up to 2 GHz and constructed from category 8.2 connecting hardware, cables and cords to meet future 25 Gb/s (25GBASE-T) and 40 Gb/s (40GBASE-T) applications.

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The ‘big bad data police’ will call unless there is an increased focus on data centre efficiency objectives

With the data centre industry becoming one of the fastest growing and power-hungry sectors, The Green Grid has urged data centre operators to commit to energy efficient practices. Without such practices in place, providers will be unable to protect consumers from excessive data restrictions as data centres seek to satisfy customer demands against dwindling energy supplies.

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EC’s RenewIT Project launches free web tool for renewable data centre design and location planning

First industry tool to model costs and benefits of renewable choices and efficiency measures; compares more than 60 European sites for locating facilities.

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Expert insight addition

SaaS analytics solution for capacity optimisation enables individuals with little or no training to drive out cost and risk in hybrid cloud infrastructure.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

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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Edge enclosure offers space in tight areas

The future of edge computing and network connectivity.

Crestchic supplies state-of-the-art loadbank to University of Chester’s flagship Energy Centre

Crestchic has supplied the University of Chester with a nominally rated 300 kVA restive/reactive...

Double coup for Softcat with advanced Symantec Master Specialist certifications

Softcat has achieved its most advanced Symantec accreditations yet in a leap which cements its...

Cogenta applies Open Source to retail Big Data

Cogenta has chosen open source technology as the engine for its new retail pricing intelligence...

Data Centre industry to tackle skills shortage

Revelations in the London Evening Standard last September showed that for every graduate post in...

Helping organisations speed up product development and deployment

Spirent DevOps solution brings together the right mix of people, products and processes to reduce...

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