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nLighten expands presence in Europe

nLighten acquires Gyro Center and enters the Dutch market.

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Sweet Projects named UK Growth Business of the Year 2023

Leading data centre constructor Sweet Projects has been announced as the 2023 UK Growth Business of the Year at the Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards, following a remarkable period of development for the three-year old company.

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Equinix uses AI to increase energy efficiency by up to 9% in its Frankfurt data centre

The AI-based cooling system implemented in FR6 with energy intelligence startup etalytics had significant effects on the data center’s carbon footprint with an increase in energy efficiency by up to 9% of the data center infrastructure. Due to the promising results of the pilot project, the cooperation is being expanded as a first step across nearly all IBX data centers in Frankfurt.

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Gartner highlights nine principles to improve cloud resilience

Infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders must deploy nine principles to maximize the resilience of cloud environments, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Colt DCS expands German presence with third Frankfurt hyperscale data centre

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has commenced the construction of its third state-of-the-art data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. Recognising Germany's pivotal role as a digital business hub with essential infrastructure for seamless internet traffic across Europe and beyond, Colt DCS has strategically chosen to continue to invest in the Frankfurt market in order meet customer demand.

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Teraco commences CT2 expansion, increasing critical IT load to 50MW

Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider, has announced a 30 megawatt (MW) expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre facility in Brackenfell, Cape Town, South Africa. The expansion is scheduled for completion in early 2025 and will incorporate the latest environmentally sustainable cooling and water management designs.

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Schneider Electric’s Natalya Makarochkina wins SILVER STEVIE® Award

Schneider Electric's Natalya Makarochkina, Senior Vice President, Secure Power Division, International Operations, has won the SILVER STEVIE® Award for Female Executive of the Year in the Business Services category in the 20th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

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Airedale launches parametric cooling range

Airedale’s AireWall ONE has been designed with input from industry experts, to deliver a flexible, efficient and global range of data center fan arrays for an industry striving for scalability and sustainability.

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Open Access Data Centres launches Phase Two in Isando

With its Phase One development having reached over 90% capacity, Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is readying a larger Phase Two - due to launch in Q1 2024 - at the Isando ICT hub.

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ZincFive unveils expanded lineup of Nickel-Zinc UPS Battery Cabinets

The ZincFive BC Series UPS Battery Cabinets are powerful, compact, reliable, safe, and sustainable megawatt class UPS energy storage systems.

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Equinix announces JINX, Johannesburg Internet Exchange

The announcement of JINX comes as numerous service providers begin striking agreements with Equinix ahead of new US$160M Johannesburg data center opening.

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Kohler Energy accelerates clean energy vision

Kohler Energy is introducing a new hydrogen KDI engine and its first-ever hydrogen fuel cell power system, expanding an ever-growing portfolio of clean energy solutions.

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Videos

Torbjørn Laursen, Inventor of Inergen, discusses the environmental and cost-saving benefits of the Inergen fire extinguishing system, and also explains how Fire Eater’s Inergen System offers several special advantages for data centre owners and operators.
Kunal Kaul, Cisco Managing Director, Partner Managed Services & SP RTM, EMEA, discusses a recent Cisco/Canalys report, which reveals that IT Channel partners anticipate significant growth in 2023, with the main driver being managed services. Technology-wise, the cybersecurity focus remains a major driver, alongside managing IT complexity, the AI opportunity and sustainability.
Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President & General Manager at Telehouse Europe, discusses the digital infrastructure connectivity challenges and requirements of UK IT decision makers, with particular reference to cyber threats, IoT and the edge, the skills shortage – all in a world where the data deluge shows no signs of stopping. Apologies that the high quality of the content is not always matched by high quality audio, but this video provides some great data centre insights, so do not be deterred!
Guido Grillenmeier, Principal Technologist EMEA at identity security pioneer, Semperis, discusses the company’s recent research which reveals that too many organisations are still failing to address Active Directory security gaps. The good news is that, those who do tackle this problem and engage expert help see a massive improvement in their security posture.

Expert Opinions

By Henk Ijspeerd, sales director EMEA strategic segment retail, at Vertiv.
By Dr. Thomas King, Chief Technology Officer, DE-CIX.
Here are seven storage trends that Infinidat has identified heading into 2024. By Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat.
By Michael Rendell, Partner, Monstarlab.