Crestchic supplies state-of-the-art loadbank to University of Chester’s flagship Energy Centre

Crestchic has supplied the University of Chester with a nominally rated 300 kVA restive/reactive loadbank. This has been installed at  its research and development facility at the Energy Centre situated in Thornton Science Park. The contractors for the project, A+B Engineering, selected Crestchic for its specialism in this area.

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85 per cent of organisations report they could not survive for longer than four weeks without mission critical IT systems

Six weeks since the TSB crisis and new research from business continuity and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks, has revealed that 85 per cent of organisations say they would struggle to survive if there was a loss of mission critical IT systems for longer than a month.

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Make it modular

There have been many rumblings of late that centre around the demise of traditional standalone UPS systems and the market longevity of these. It is undeniable that the market is saturated when it comes to centralised UPS. Technology seems to have plateaued and the performance delivered from different manufacturers has become fairly ubiquitous. This has meant that manufacturers are now having to compete on cost and subsequently, judging from the latest industry figures, are making less profit.

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Crestchic says loadbanks can reduce worrying stats around the lack of energy resilience

With recent research from Centrica stating that 33% of energy decision-makers believe their organisation is not prepared for a disruption to their energy supply from a temporary grid failure, Crestchic is calling for more attention to be paid to the role loadbanks play in energy resilience strategies.

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Vertiv expands Customer Experience Centre for Thermal Management

State-of-the-art Adiabatic Freecooling Chiller Innovation Lab is designed to develop latest thermal management technologies and to test performances under real field conditions.

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Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead colocation market

New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT maintain a strong lead in the colocation market, helped in part by the many acquisitions that they have made.

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