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Colt highlights Enterprise Tech Trends for 2023

Colt Technology Services has shared its forecasts for 2023’s biggest enterprise technology trends and influences. The digital infrastructure company expects to see a rise in on-demand networking, advanced cybersecurity capabilities and growth in Smart X – particularly smart buildings - across the tech industry. Private 5G in enterprise and greater investment in cloud will also advance in 2023 as digitalisation continues to drive sweeping change in the way the world connects, consumes and collaborates.

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Mitigating blackout risk

Keysource, the critical environment and datacentre specialist, is working with several clients to ensure that any of this winter’s threatened rolling blackouts do not affect vital services. It comes as it is revealed that during cold spells, across Europe, the UK government has crisis plans for a series of rolling three-hour power cuts, with regions of the UK taking it in turn to go dark. This is due to compounding issues around gas availability, a creaking aging grid, and the reliance on imported energy (i.e. Nuclear from France).

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Equinix to “adjust the thermostat” to optimise data centre energy use

Equinix has revealed its commitment to reducing its overall power use by increasing operating temperature ranges within its data centres – the first such commitment by an operator of colocation data centres.

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Ekinops selected by Bandwidth & Cloud Services Group

Ekinops has been selected by telecom infrastructure provider, Bandwidth & Cloud Services Group (BCS), for its network backbone upgrade, which will enhance connectivity throughout Africa.

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Schneider Electric wins ‘Cloud Transformation/MSP Project’ and ‘Futureproofing Initiative’ of the Year’ at the SDC Awards 2022

Awards reflect Schneider Electric’s leadership in addressing the data centre industry skills gap and in delivering innovative data centre and edge computing solutions for UK NHS Trust, with partners.

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Improving sustainability in data centres

Nutanix sponsored report examines potential impact of datacentre models on energy efficiency and carbon footprint.

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Panduit enhances OneMode capabilities

Panduit has extended the fibre capabilities of OneMode, its 1U rack mounted device that offers a passive media converter to leverage legacy multimode fibre backbone (100Mbps –1Gbps) and significantly increases bandwidth to 10Gbps, 50Gbps and up to 100Gps across already installed fibre infrastructure.

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New series of power products further expands Vertiv’s offering dedicated to IT channel partners

Vertiv has introduced the Vertiv™ Geist™ Rack Transfer Switch (RTS), a new line of transfer switches that provides redundant power to single-corded devices, and the highly-efficient Vertiv™ Liebert® GXT5 Lithium-Ion uninterruptible power supply (UPS), designed for rack or stand-alone installation. These space-saving devices are ideal for use in distributed IT networks and edge computing locations, and are now available and shipping from stock in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

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Siemon unveils LightVerse high-density fibre optic cabling system

Siemon has announced the European release of its innovative LightVerse high-density fibre optic cabling system that improves fibre network performance, manageability, scalability, and flexibility in data centre and LAN environments.

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HellermannTyton launches time-saving cable entry solution

Cable management and protection specialist HellermannTyton is bringing time and cost savings to the electrical, panel building and control cabinet construction sectors with its brand-new cable entry solution, the Vario Plate.

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Huawei Data Center Facility unveils Global Ecosystem Policy and Product Innovations

Under the theme "Fairness, Trust, Growth, and Win-Win", Huawei Data Center Facility Global Ecosystem Policy and Product Launch Event was held on November 11 at Huawei's Sanyapo Park in China. During the event, new partner policies and product innovations, including FusionModule2000 6.0, a small/medium-sized modular data center solution, and Small SmartLi UPS, were introduced to partners from across the world. This event demonstrated Huawei's commitment to building a fair and strong partner ecosystem based on mutual trust for shared success.

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Energy efficiency looms large for data centre industry

Managing consumption and carbon footprint driving trends toward regulation, standardisation, and the search for generator alternatives.

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Lumen to sell EMEA business to Colt Technology Services

Transaction will strengthen Lumen’s financial position and sharpen strategic focus.

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Kao Data joins UTC Heathrow’s ‘Digital Futures Programme’

Kao Data joins the founding partners at the UK’s first dedicated University Technical College for data centre and engineering professionals.

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Keysource launches data centre 'state of the industry' report

Keysource has launched its State of the Industry Report 2022 which gathers the views and insights from over 250 IT Directors in UK & Europe. This is the fifth year of the report and it showed once again that the datacentre and technology sectors continue to grow with no signs of slowing, with investment growth being driven by continued digitalisation, IT transformation and data growth. This is despite the current global economic and political uncertainties.

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Videos

DCS talks to Hillstone Loadbanks at Data Centre Transformation 2023
DCS talks to DCBYTE at Data Centre Transformation 2023 - Part 2
In this video we talk to Lily Tozer from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund at the 2023 Data Centre Transformation Event.
Dirk Schrader, Field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix, discusses the company’s recent Hybrid Security Trends report, which compared and contrasted on-prem security with security in the cloud – with the findings covering such topics as: security challenges, investment plans, the role of cyber insurance and the emergence of cyber resilience as a focus.

Expert Opinions

By Catherine Boddy, Head of Vulnerability Operations Centre, Orange Cyberdefense.
By Matt Aldridge, Principal Solutions Consultant, OpenText Cybersecurity.
By Federica Monsone, founder and CEO of A3 Communications, the data storage industry PR agency.