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Gaining a competitive edge

With the increasing application of the Internet of Things, the impending global rollout of 5G and more enterprises increasing their need for SaaS and IaaS applications and infrastructure services, digital data is going into overdrive. Ciarán Flanagan from ABB looks at how colocation and multi-tenant data centers can achieve faster deployments and realize their assets quickly through modularization.

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Play it cool with the digital twin

Streaming movies, playing computer games or finding the latest hidden musical gems are getting easier with each passing year. Just look at the last two months of 2019. We’ve seen the launch of Disney Plus, Google Stadia and Spotify providing its 248 million users with custom made playlists. Powering all of this and more is the hidden force in our internet age – the data center. However, while being a booming industry, all is not quite so rosy for data center businesses. The growth in usage coupled with the 3.6 billion people who are now connected is putting pressure on the internet infrastructure like never before. By Jonathan Leppard, Director at Future Facilities.

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How will data centre infrastructures be affected by the 5G rollout?

The continued growth of the Internet of Things (IOT) depends on ICT infrastructures that can support its data processing and communications bandwidth requirements. Accordingly, 5G, with its ultra-low latency and high transmission rates, has a vital role as an IoT enabler. However, implementing the new standard has major implications for data centres in terms of their size, distribution and internal ICT hardware. In this article, Alex Emms, Operations Director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP), looks at this data centre evolution, and discusses how modern UPS technology can be deployed to meet the challenges it presents.

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Data centres in a 5G era

When it comes to 5G, we’re just getting started. Entire industries are simultaneously planning for a new era of connectivity, bracing themselves for what is set to be one of the most influential roll-outs in technological history. Enabling higher speeds, lower latencies, and more machine-to-machine connections, the arrival of fifth generation networking is already sparking a revolution amongst data centres. And there’s more to come. By Eric Law, Vice President Enterprise Sales Europe at CommScope.

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Democratizing Data

ABB’s Dave Sterlace examines the case for digitalization by exploring how the IT sector can benefit from greater automation and take cues from other industries to enhance business efficiency and help navigate the data highway.

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Why the public sector needs a smarter approach to digital transformation

By Darren Watkins, managing director for VIRTUS Data Centres.

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Maintaining the maintenance regime

Chris Wellfair, Projects Director at Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, outlines the key maintenance areas that should be covered in a maintenance programme, so data centre managers can think about whether it’s time to update their regime.

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Choosing the right data centre solution for your business

The pace in which technology is advancing makes it near impossible to predict what the business landscape will look like in five years’ time. One thing is for certain: IT requirements are changing and will continue to do so for the unforeseeable future. By Tom Adams, Director of Product Marketing at Cogeco Peer 1.

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What’s next for HPC and the future of research innovation?

From big data analytics to genomics, complex science and education research is typically reliant on sophisticated technology to speed up processing times, enabling larger and more ambitious projects while at the same time reducing development costs. BY Spencer Lamb, Director of Research, Verne Global.

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Videos

In this video we talk to ERM Consulting at Data Centre Transformation 2023.
Dirk Schrader, Field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix, discusses the company’s recent Hybrid Security Trends report, which compared and contrasted on-prem security with security in the cloud – with the findings covering such topics as: security challenges, investment plans, the role of cyber insurance and the emergence of cyber resilience as a focus.
Stephane Cardot, Director of Pre-Sales EMEA at Quantum, describes the problems with legacy NAS systems, explains how the company’s Myriad storage solution has been designed to address them, and also shares updates on the latest version of the Unified Surveillance Platform, as well as some future plans.
Jurg van Vliet, CEO of Aknostic, discusses the emergence of regional clouds within Europe, based on open source software and Kubernetes in particular, as an alternative to the large public cloud offerings. Trial projects are in progress to demonstrate the economic, environmental and societal benefits that such regional clouds can provide.

News

Telehouse has officially opened its first Thai data centre at the prime location of Rama 9 in Bangkok with an investment of US$74 million or about THB 2.5 billion, aiming to create the connectivity ecosystem and becoming the first purpose-built data centre to achieve 100% power supply by renewable energy in Thailand.
Israel's largest health services provider partners with Cloudera to use a data lake in its private cloud to manage and analyze data from over half the country’s population in real-time for quicker and better-informed decision-making, improving the quality of patient care.
Commvault has introduced new security capabilities across its entire portfolio.
CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-Service allows businesses to rapidly deploy and scale key management and data security services without the need to manage hardware or fund upfront investments.