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Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

As interconnected services continue to proliferate, with increases in cloud providers, edge services and SaaS offerings, the rationale to stay only in a traditional data centre topology has limited advantages. This is not an overnight shift, but a change in thinking how we deliver services to our customers and to the business. This trend, coupled with the new reality that external factors might limit physical access to data centres (such as emergency quarantine), is driving new thinking on how...

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WAN Confusion: Why WAN Data Acceleration isn’t

WAN optimisation or SD-WAN WAN optimisation and SD-WAN vendors tend to talk about cost-efficiencies, scalability, virtual flexibility, their ability to accelerate any application despite the limitations of TCP/IP, being cloud-ready, industry-leading. In addition, it’s about being able to accelerate any application despite the inhibitions created by latency and packet loss. They are indeed great technologies, and each one has their purpose, but they often fail to live up to expectations –...

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Outside the four walls of the data centre

Almost four in 10 people in the EU began working remotely in the first few months of 2020, according to a study carried out by Eurofund. This is a seismic shift considering that the amount of people who regularly worked remotely before the pandemic took hold ranged from as low as 6% to as high as 23%, depending on country. By Michael Cade, Senior Global Technologist, Veeam.

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Cloud provider spend jumps; enterprise declines

New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that worldwide spend on data center hardware and software nudged upwards by 2% from the third quarter of 2019, thanks entirely to a 21% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, which pushed it to an all-time high.

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STULZ offers next generation climate control

STULZ CabinetAir PRT with direct free cooling helps telecommunications cabinets beat the heat.

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R&M opens production plant for network technology in China

New plant manufactures FO and copper solutions for China’s data centres.

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Turnkey hyperconverged micro-datacentre-in-a-box solution delivers a simple, modern, reliable...
As part of its campaign to address the ongoing skills shortage in the data centre industry,...
Precise timing synchronisation for high-performance networks, is now improved as HUBER+SUHNER...
For a 10,000-person organisation, IT downtime could be costing $25 million (£20 million) a year.
Uptime Institute has published the findings of its Annual Outage Analysis, an important industry...
Black & Veatch and Future Facilities will work together to offer assessments, analysis and...
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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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