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Rising rack and power densities are driving significant interest in liquid cooling for many reasons. Yet, the suggestion that one size fits all ignores one of the most fundamental aspects of potentially hindering adoption - that many data centre applications will continue to utilize air as the most efficient and cost-effective solution for their cooling requirements. The future is undoubtedly hybrid, and by using air cooling, containment, and liquid cooling together, owners and operators can optimise and future-proof their data centre environments. By Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Manager, Subzero Engineering.

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Towards green clouds

It is common knowledge that data centres consume a lot of electricity. Therefore sustainability is a key issue for data centre operators. However, energy efficiency isn’t just about green electricity and photovoltaics on the roof; above all, it’s about energy efficiency and innovative technologies within the data centres. There is a lot of that waiting in the wings, states Raymond Ma, General Manager of Europe, Alibaba Cloud.

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The Digital Renaissance in Travel: A Journey to the Future

By Petrina Steele, Business Development Senior Director at Equinix.

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Magnetic north: Scotland’s renewable future as a data centre hub

With green credentials that include the UK’s lowest carbon energy intensity, increasing access to RERs, low-cost land and political backing, are the pieces in place for Scotland to fulfil its data centre sector potential? By Kerr Johnstone, Director, i3 Solutions Group.

Building a sustainable digital economy - setting the scene

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.

Reduce, reuse, recycle – Dell’s sustainable materials journey

Allison Ward, Senior Sustainable Materials Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how the company balances the priorities of the circular economy alongside ensuring that sustainable materials innovation doesn’t come at a performance cost. She shares some brilliant insights as to the work Dell is doing around sustainability innovation, both internally and working with its supply chain, strategic partners and, importantly, customers.

An object lesson in storage

Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, explains the company’s DS3 geo-distributed storage solution, provides some background on how the company is developing its presence in then market, and talks of a new technology solution arriving this autumn.

UEC to focus on high-performance networking

Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.

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Toshiba opens Quantum Technology Centre

Toshiba has officially opened the new, cutting edge Quantum Technology Centre in a ceremony attended by Lord Johnson, Minister of State for the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), and Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom.

SAP launches Generative AI Assistant Joule

SAP has launched Joule, a natural-language, generative AI copilot that will transform the way business runs.

UK businesses struggle to balance security budgets as cyber incidents soar

Businesses have reported a 25% uplift in cyber incidents over the last year.

ISACA adds Credentialing Pathway

To support professionals as they embark on implementing performance improvement in their enterprises, ISACA has introduced a new credentialing pathway for the latest model of its Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, with a Building Organizational Capability (BOC) course and corresponding new Practitioner Exam.

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