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Data centres feel the crunch of escalating costs and labour race with advanced manufacturing

Data centre clients are facing project costs which are 15 percent higher than last year on average, with escalating prices for energy and key materials squeezing margins.

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Telehouse set to achieve a 461 tonnes reduction in carbon emissions with EkkoSense

Initial EkkoSense data centre optimisation software trial results in a potential 10% cooling power reduction at the Telehouse North site.

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Siemon launches Data Centre Industry Insight Series

Leading global network infrastructure specialist Siemon has launched a series of data centre focussed tech briefs, designed to help data centre infrastructure professionals gain a better understanding of how the value derived from their data centre is changing in light of digital transformation and newly emerging technologies and applications.

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Research reveals sustainability action gap

Reports by 451 Research and Forrester indicate most of the IT and data centre industry is at the beginning stage of a sustainability journey.

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13 – lucky for data centres

Minkels has created a standard rack and cabinet portfolio, with 54 product solutions ready for delivery within 13 working days, and available with a range of accessories and optimised airflow management as required.

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Vertiv launches Enhanced Partner Programs

Critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions provider, Vertiv is introducing enhancements to its Vertiv Partner Program (VPP) and Vertiv Incentive Program (VIP), which focus on rewarding its network of expert distributors and resellers. The VPP and VIP are available to partners in select countries across Europe and the Middle East, including the UK and Ireland.

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SD-WAN security risks misunderstood and ignored

Certes Networks has released the findings of its international research survey, Assurance v Security: Understanding SD-WAN Risks in High Assurance Industries, which examined how SD-WAN security is being approached by regulated organisations and service providers. The study identified a widespread complacency over SD-WAN security and data assurance - despite an acknowledgment of regulatory shortfall - as well as failure to take into account the long-term business significance of a data breach.

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Outages cause financial 'ouch'

New research uncovers increasing costs of downtime, with lengthy resolution times, creating financial and reputational damage for organisations.

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Data centre infrastructure demand remains resilient

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, Data Center Physical Infrastructure (DCPI) revenues grew 9 percent year-over-year in 2Q 2022, driven by average selling price increases and marginal improvement in unit shipments.

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Partnering to protect against lithium-ion battery fires

In their latest development, Bryland Fire Protection have teamed up with industry leaders Firechief to help their customers protect against the increasing risk of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries. As a new distributor partner, Bryland Fire Protection now stock a range of Firechief’s innovative Lith-Ex extinguishers, suppression kits and fire blankets all designed to put out battery fires….fast.

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Keysource provides Datum due diligence

Keysource was part of the team behind Datum Datacentres’ acquisition of Teledata UK, a colocation data centre in Manchester. This represents the first bolt-on regional acquisition for Datum Datacentres as part of its regional expansion strategy.

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Strong data centre industry growth

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey findings highlight the growing, industry-wide need to achieve meaningful efficiency gains, evolve sustainability reporting practices, prevent costly outages and more.

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Helping to optimise data centre uptime and productivity

Honeywell Data Center Suite delivers an innovative user experience, increases resiliency in operations, improves worker productivity and provides visibility into critical sustainability KPIs.

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Keysource and Chapmanbdsp partner

Keysource, the global data centre design, consultancy and operations specialist, and Chapmanbdsp the global built environment specialist, have formed a partnership that creates a new offer to support clients on the road to net zero carbon emissions in the data centre and critical infrastructure market.

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Videos

Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer, discusses the findings of the company’s inaugural Digital Maturity Index, which looks at the ways in which organisations have, or have not as yet, embraced the technologies and processes required to implement a successful digital transformation strategy. The Index identifies doers, dabblers and dawdlers, at varying stages of their digital journeys, identifying what distinguishes each group, but also some common challenges which still remain.
Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.
In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.
Erast Wortel, Syniti’s new vice president, go-to-market for EMEA North, shares some great insights and advice on data management challenges and opportunities – topics discussed include data quality, data lakes and swamps, data governance, data migration and master data management – with some great customer examples along the way.

Expert Opinions

By Jori Ramakers, Director of CX Strategy, Tricentis.
By Andy Swift, Cyber Security Assurance Technical Director at Six Degrees.
By Jan Junker, EVP EMEA Sales at TeamViewer.