Open Compute and data centre architectures

A new White Paper from Schneider Electric considers the capital costs of OCP-compliant data centres, including the implications for redundancy, availability and flexibility of upstream power infrastructure.

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Do we really need Icelandic data centres?

Asks Kate Craig-Wood is MD of cloud hosting provider, Memset.

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Green Experts reach consensus on ICTFOOTPRINT.eu innovative approach for measuring energy efficiency

Energy consumption in the ICT sector accounts for almost 10% of electricity consumption in the European Union. By decreasing emissions by just 15%, the ICT sector can make savings of ˆ600 billion by 2020.

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Renewable energy for Scottish data centre

DataVita, a Scottish datacentre provider, has selected SSE as its chosen energy supplier, meeting the objective of powering the Fortis datacentre using 100% renewable energy sources. This will allow customers to reduce carbon emissions by 95% for their IT services hosted in the facility.

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Minkels launches its MatrixCube mini data centre solution in Europe

After the successful initial launch of the MatrixCube in Belgium this past year, Minkels will now extend this offering to the Netherlands as well. The Dutch market launch will then be followed by other countries including Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and global export regions. The European launch will be accompanied by Minkels’ presentation of the MatrixCube at Infosecurity (15 and 16 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium).

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Virtual power distribution

Nlyte Software has announced the Virtual Power Distribution Unit (V-PDU) availability as part of the company’s leading Data Center Service Management (DCSM) Solution.  The V-PDU offers equivalent capabilities and functionality of   hardware-based PDU’s but at a 90 percent cost savings.

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Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) fuel delivers significant carbon savings.
The recent DCS Awards event, organised by Angel Business Communications, was a great opportunity...
Echelon Data Centres and Biocore Environmental Ltd agree to co-locate biogas facility at Echelon...
Vertiv’s microgrid merges state-of-the-art infrastructure technologies and alternative energy...
ZincFive has published the inaugural Data Center Energy Storage Industry Insights Report, offering...
Lithium Guardian Batteries provide safe, reliable, low cost energy storage for mission critical...
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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