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Vertiv offers scalable busbar power distribution system

Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB enables uninterrupted additions, upgrades and service without using floorspace.

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LINX and NAPAfrica announce strategic collaboration

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has announced a strategic collaboration with African Internet Exchange Point, NAPAfrica.

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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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Corning opens Optical Fibre Manufacturing Plant in Poland

The facility is one of the largest in the European Union; part of Corning’s globally focused investment in fibre and cable manufacturing.

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ELSIS - a solution for next-generation, co-packaged optics (CPO) requiring external lasers

Solves critical safety, thermal management and field replacement or upgrade challenges of highly demanding hyperscale data center I/O.

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Nokia provides data centre switching platforms

Nokia SR Linux-based solution will enable DCspine to expand its interconnection and cloud services, and enhance network operations through automation for faster service delivery to its European customers.

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Five key steps to take to make sure your data centre is ready for the next 40C plus heatwave

Optimisation specialist EkkoSense reveals learnings from its analysis of the real-time status of thousands of data centre racks during the heatwave.

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Sustainability initiatives impact data centre infrastructure spend

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) revenues are forecast to grow at an 8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2021 to 2026, to above $31 billion. Growth is forecast to remain resilient, driven by sustainability-minded data center expansion from cloud and colocation service providers, despite near-term supply chain constraints persisting and macroeconomic headwinds forming.

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Legrand Group expands data centre service with the acquisition of USystems Ltd

Legrand has strengthened its data centre solutions offering with the acquisition of Bedford-based infrastructure specialist USystems.

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Data centre switch market to approach $100 billion

According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the Ethernet Switch Data Center market is forecast to grow at a nearly double-digit CAGR between 2021 and 2026, approaching $100 B in cumulative spending over the next five years. 400 Gbps and higher speeds are forecast to comprise half of the spending, with 800 Gbps surpassing 400 Gbps by 2025.

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Education platform addresses data centre skills shortage

The Schneider Electric University will help data centre professionals upskill by offering free guidance on the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives.

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Latency - the gamers' enemy

The first-ever survey of online gaming connectivity finds gamers quit in droves when experiencing latency issues.

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Schneider Electric wins ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability and Efficiency’, and ‘Power Innovation of the year’ at DCS Awards 2022

Schneider Electric wins ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability and Efficiency’ category for second consecutive year.

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Perle's Bielefeld University lustre

Out-of-Band network access is used to remotely manage Cisco and HP Switches, WLAN controllers, and VPN Servers for 24/7 Network Uptime.

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Downtime costs and consequences are worsening

New research details latest digital infrastructure failure rates, increasing outage costs and impacts, top downtime causes, and more.

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Videos

Chris Coward, Director of Project Management and heading up the BCS Apprenticeship Programme and Ben Chappell, BCS Assistant Consultant and apprentice, discuss the company’s Apprenticeship Programme in terms of the benefits it delivers for both the business and the participants.
In this video we talk to Gary Chandler and Paul Silver from QiO at the 2023 Data Centre Transformation event.
Stephane Cardot, Director of Pre-Sales EMEA at Quantum, describes the problems with legacy NAS systems, explains how the company’s Myriad storage solution has been designed to address them, and also shares updates on the latest version of the Unified Surveillance Platform, as well as some future plans.
Jurg van Vliet, CEO of Aknostic, discusses the emergence of regional clouds within Europe, based on open source software and Kubernetes in particular, as an alternative to the large public cloud offerings. Trial projects are in progress to demonstrate the economic, environmental and societal benefits that such regional clouds can provide.

Expert Opinions

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), used by professional designers. It creates an initial representation of the expected airflow within the data center. CFD models the heat exchanges between the IT equipment, the air and the cooling equipment. Designers use CFD to predict the optimal placement and size of cooling systems. By Gabriel St-Pierre Lemieux, PhD Chemical Engineering, AKCP
By Rhonda Doyle, Senior Director of Field Services Operations at Schneider Electric.
By Anurag Kapoor, Vice President, Data and Analytics for The Smart Cube.