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DCS talks to Iron Mountain about Sustainability and the Data Centre
  • Posted on 28th March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Chris Pennington, Director of Energy & Sustainability at Iron Mountain, shares some fascinating insights on the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry, alongside detailing many of the ways in which the sector is already making significant progress to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?
  • Posted on 22nd March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

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Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT
  • Posted on 22nd March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

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Time for a sustainability revolution?
  • Posted on 3rd March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.

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DCS talks to RISE Research Institutes of Sweden at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event
  • Posted on 1st March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

DCS talks to Jon Summers from RISE Research Institutes of Sweden at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.

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Sustainability – time for a revolution? Part 2
  • Posted on 1st March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Pankaj Sharma, Schneider Electric's Global Executive Vice President, Secure Power Division, considers the importance of reducing greenhouse gases as a measurable sustainability objective, alongside the need to reconsider some data centre fundamentals, as well as recognising the demands of the digital world.

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DCS Talks to Cadence about end user attitudes to digital transformation
  • Posted on 28th February 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Dave King, Senior Product Manager at Cadence, discusses the company’s recent survey, which uncovered end user’s attitudes to digital transformation – which suggests that nearly all companies are embarked on such a programme, but experiencing a range of challenges along the way. Cadence’s digital twin solution helps organisations to understand both their current and future data centre infrastructure requirements.

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Sustainability – time for some standards?
  • Posted on 23rd February 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, provides some valuable in-depth insight into the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry, acknowledging that more work needs to be done, not least when it comes to the standardisation of environmental reporting.

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Sustainability – time for a revolution? Part 1
  • Posted on 16th February 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Pankaj Sharma, Schneider Electric's Global Executive Vice President, Secure Power Division, discusses the sustainability gap, with too many organisations talking up their environmental credentials, but failing to implement the necessary actions.

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Regulation and innovation top of the 2023 agenda?
  • Posted on 28th December 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Alex Brew, Regional Director, Northern Europe at Vertiv., shares the company’s predictions for the data centre industry in 2023. Expect energy efficiency-related legislation and innovation - with alternatives to diesel generators and the final ‘arrival’ of liquid cooling on the horizon – alongside the excitement and uncertainty of 5G, edge and the metaverse!

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Data centre industry thrives in challenging times
  • Posted on 21st September 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Jim Hart, CEO of BCS, discusses the company’s Summer Report, which finds that the data centre industry continues to expand and innovate as it faces any number of challenges around sustainability, energy supplies and costs, skills shortage and supply chain volatility.

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DCIM 3.0 promises to help manage hybrid complexity
  • Posted on 1st September 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Kevin Brown, SVP of EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power, Schneider Electric, explains how DCIM 3.0 could just be the magic bullet to help organisations successfully manage their increasingly complex and hybrid IT infrastructure environments.

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Investors hold the key to sustainability success
  • Posted on 9th August 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Aoife Foley, IEEE Senior Member and Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, provides valuable insight into a whole range of technology, social and political challenges and opportunities which are shaping the quest for Net Zero.

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Park Place Technologies expands its data centre expertise
  • Posted on 16th May 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Park Place Technologies has been on quite some journey, as the company has grown from its core Third Party Maintenance focus to today’s data centre network optimisation specialist organisation. Ian Shearer, Managing Director, APAC & EMEA, Park Place Technologies, discusses recent developments at the company, which include several acquisitions, technical solution and professional services innovations.

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Let’s get physical
  • Posted on 5th April 2022 in by Phil Alsop

Nick Smith, Business Development Manager at Genetec, discusses the changing role of physical security as it impacts IT infrastructure, identifying some key trends. He also details the company’s recent Streamvault Edge launch and highlights the particular physical security challenges faced by the data centre sector.

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News

Investment further expands Vantage’s investor base and capital sources, enhancing the company’s ability to deliver high-quality, sustainable hyperscale data center campuses for its customers.
Finning UK & Ireland is urging data centre operators to accelerate the take-up of sustainable backup power solutions in response to projected surge in energy consumption for the sector.
Serverfarm, a global data center developer and operator, has successfully increased its North American credit facility led by TD Securities to $1.637 billion, as part of its accelerated business growth backed...
La Molisana, a leading Italian pasta company, selects Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One offering, leveraging advanced data infrastructure to support ambitious growth, strengthen security, and...

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