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AI, data sovereignty and location drive the data centre agenda
  • Posted on 13th March 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Zahl Limbuwala, Operating Partner, DTCP, provides some brilliant insights into the challenges facing the data centre industry in 2024 and beyond – with his thoughts on AI, data sovereignty, data centre location, legislation and sustainability combined into a compelling narrative of the likely future direction of the sector.

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Talking ‘bout the younger generation!
  • Posted on 26th February 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Xavier Plowright, Senior Analyst – Data Centre Transactions EMEA at JLL, won the Rising Stars Award at last year’s DC Awards. Here he outlines his career to date, shares his thoughts on the data centre industry (the good and the not so good!), with the focus very much on encouraging the younger generation to drive the industry forward - and to enter this year’s Rising Stars Award.

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Sustainability drives the data centre sector
  • Posted on 12th February 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Jon Healy, Chief Operating Officer at Keysource, offers some great insights into the challenges and opportunities facing the industry in 2024 and beyond, with the many aspects of sustainability dominating the agenda, alongside the advent of AI, the ongoing skills shortage, and one or two supply chain issues.

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AI-ready data centres - are you prepared?
  • Posted on 7th February 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Manja Thessin, AFL’s Market Manager, looks at the key trends in AI and hyperscale data centres, covering the significant increases anticipated in AI cluster sizes, densities and overall scales of deployment, the innovations in fibre optic cabling technologies required to meet this demand, and summarises how the industry needs to evolve to meet the challenges of scaling AI to exascale.

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AI poses fresh challenges for the data centre industry
  • Posted on 24th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

The opening of Legrand’s latest Experience Center in Reading, UK, last year is just one of many technology and corporate strategy developments focused on optimizing the company’s data centre products and services portfolio, as well as the overall customer experience. Paul Roberts, Product Specialist and MTDC Account Manager for Legrand Data Centre Solutions, talks to DCS.

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Digital technologies help to address the skills shortage
  • Posted on 19th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Mark Fenton, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, explains the ways in which digital twins, augmented and virtual reality and AI can help the data centre industry address the impending skills shortage as well as providing many operational benefits.

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Addressing the challenges of implementing AI-driven data centre infrastructure
  • Posted on 18th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Manja Thessin, AFL's Market Manager, explains how the AI revolution is driving change in data centre architecture, outlining the unique challenges these environments face in terms of cabling and connectivity as they integrate AI technologies as well as ways in which they can be addressed.

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Connectivity crucial to beat the bottlenecks
  • Posted on 10th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Nicholas Cole, Enterprise and Data Centre Solutions Manager at EXFO, discusses the many challenges facing the data centre at the present time - more and more data, the impending AI explosion, ongoing cloud migrations, the edge and sustainability – which are placing ever more demands on the facilities themselves and, as importantly, the connectivity infrastructure both within and outside these buildings.

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Cyber resilience and sustainability drive the need for data centre innovation
  • Posted on 9th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Rajkumar Vijayarangakann, Lead, Network Design & DevOps, ManageEngine, discusses the growing importance of cyber resilience as a focus for the data centre, alongside the ongoing sustainability imperative. Against such a demanding and rapidly evolving background, Rajkumar believes that comprehensive, well developed and implemented ongoing data centre optimisation strategies have never been so important.

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Where there’s a way, there’s a will
  • Posted on 8th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Paolo Perani, Sustainability Manager for ABB Electrification Distribution Solutions, discusses electrification, decarbonisation and broader sustainability topics, with plenty of examples of how the company is working with its supply chain and customers, as well as internally, to ensure that the journey to NetZero is energised by the many digital and sustainable technology solutions being continuously developed by ABB.

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AI looms large over industry’s sustainability roadmap
  • Posted on 7th January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Tate Cantrell, Chief Technology Officer at Verne Global, provides some brilliant insights into the data centre industry’s sustainability progress to date and the technology and strategic innovations which will make a difference into the future – warning that the sheer scale of the impending AI explosion could just cause a disruptive re-think of many stakeholders’ Net Zero plans.

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Time for some more meaningful metrics?
  • Posted on 3rd January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Jad Jebara, President and CEO of Hyperview, provides some brilliant insights as to how the data centre industry, prompted by the requirement for meaningful environmental reporting, can work towards a truly sustainable future by focusing on the metrics ‘that matter’.

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Physical security – key to an integrated data centre security policy
  • Posted on 3rd January 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Nick Smith, Business Development Manager at Genetec, discusses the main data centre physical security challenges for the industry, sharing some valuable insights as to how best to deal with the insider threat and the key questions end users should be asking their data centre operators when it comes to keeping their IT assets safe.

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Is the data centre industry ready for AI?
  • Posted on 13th December 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Steven Carlini, VP for Innovation and Data Centre at Schneider Electric, explains how the massive, continuing AI explosion is threatening to re-write the rules when it comes to data centre design and operation. The company recently published a Blueprint for AI data centres, which explores pioneering approaches to data centre design, and Steve shares the four key AI attributes and trends that will underpin physical infrastructure requirements in the era of machine learning.

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Sustainable fire suppression
  • Posted on 1st November 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Torbjørn Laursen, Inventor of Inergen, discusses the environmental and cost-saving benefits of the Inergen fire extinguishing system, and also explains how Fire Eater’s Inergen System offers several special advantages for data centre owners and operators.

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News

AtlasEdge expands data centre footprint in Leverkusen with LEV002

AtlasEdge announces the new LEV002 data centre in Leverkusen, enhancing its presence and capacity in Germany's Rhineland region.

Equinix introduces Fabric Intelligence for AI-native networking

Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-enabled networking solution designed to improve automation, performance, and adaptability for enterprise infrastructure.

PRD Technologies partners with GoCardless to streamline telecom payment solutions

PRD Technologies has partnered with GoCardless to support automated payment solutions for telecoms and MSPs, aiming to reduce billing-related issues and improve operational processes.

Cisco introduces sovereign critical infrastructure portfolio across EMEA

Cisco has announced its Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio targeting organisations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Expert Opinions

AI is unlocking entry-level potential, not replacing it

By Rohit Gupta, UK&I Managing Director at Cognizant.

Cooling without the cost

Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...

Data Breach and Cyber-Attacks: A Matter of When and Not If

By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist.

The Hidden Factor Affecting Data Center Reliability

Why water quality has become a defining variable in AI-era data center commissioning By Jacob Paugh, Senior Director of Global High Tech at ChemTreat.

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