Technology Spotlights

Paul Brickman, Commercial Director, for Crestchic Loadbanks, explores the often-overlooked necessity of loadbank testing in securing data centre power in an energy crisis.

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How to cure cloud connectivity headaches with software-defined cloud interconnect

By Pierre Cérou, Deputy CTO at InterCloud.

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Everything will be connected

Even though 5G networks are expected to grow and develop for years to come, technology strategists are already offering up visions that look far beyond 5G. If their 6G scenarios become reality, we can expect a wonderland of communications in the 2030s. Alexander Pabst, Vice President Market Segment Wireless Communications at Rohde & Schwarz.

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Africa’s digital growth is an opportunity to think differently about design and act differently in data centre operation

Responding to demand with the same old designs and power grid dependency is simply not sustainable. By Ed Ansett, Founder & Chairman, i3 Solutions Group.

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FUTURE OF DATACENTRES - MARYLAND RULING ON DIESEL GENERATORS - WHAT COULD IT MEAN FOR THE DATA CENTRE INDUSTRY?

James Vaughan, Consultant at BCS, examines the potential impact of the recent ruling on diesel generator backups in Maryland, asking what it might mean for the sector and what can be done in the future.

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SKILL SHORTAGES - THE THREAT REMAINS

By Dan Sheehan, Consultant at BCS.

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Redefining Liquid Cooling from the server to the switch

By Nathan Blom, CCO, Iceotope.

Customers the key drivers of ESG initiatives

Susan Kenniston, Wipro’s Global Head & VP of Sustainability, discusses the company’s recent research which finds that customers are the key drivers in shaping an organisation’s sustainability strategy. She also explains the importance of the employee experience in driving change, how businesses can refocus their own buying habits reframe their sourcing strategies and why becoming an agile learning organisation is critical to ESG success.

CIOs

Michael Cantor, CIO at Park Place Technologies, discusses how the role of the CIO continues to change and develop with the new challenges and opportunities presented by the world of technology. In addition to the CIO’s ‘traditional’ role of ensuring the smooth running of the IT department, as well as understanding how new technologies might impact on the business, the role now demands many new skills: sustainability, business intelligence and analytics to technology lifecycle, digital transformation, and customer experience.

DCS talks to David Watkins, Solutions Director at VIRTUS Data Centres

Continuing our series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Watkins, from VIRTUS Data Centres, discusses some of the many challenges and opportunities facing his own organisation and the wider data centre industry over the coming months and years, with sustainability the major focus.

Help with selecting the right security platform

Piers Wilson, Head of Product Management, Huntsman Security, explains how MSSPs’ needs differ from enterprises when it comes to choosing the right SIEM or security monitoring platform. Visit: https://huntsmansecurity.com

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KIOXIA RM7 Series SSDs debut on Hewlett Packard enterprise servers

KIOXIA Europe's lineup of RM7 Series Value SAS SSDs are now available in HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

Subzero relocates HQ

Relocation encourages and develops the collaboration and teamwork between Subzero Engineering’s data center containment and Simplex modular cleanroom solutions product lines.

UK companies express greater AI urgency than US

One year on from the launch of Chat GPT, new data from Slack based on 10,000 global workers (including 1,000 the UK) reveals that UK companies believe there is greater urgency to adopt Generative AI at work than US companies - yet uptake remains cautious in both markets.

Vanta debuts AI-powered innovations

Vanta has announced a number of new and upcoming product launches enabling customers to accelerate innovation and strengthen security.

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