Operations & Systems
How harnessing dashboards for smarter energy use illuminates the path to...
Not all innovations lead to new products, instead, they can represent fresh approaches, improved processes or enhanced solutions. Kate Baker, Connected Lighting Manager at Ansell Lighting, highlights the benefits and...
Artificial Intelligence will continue to propel change across the datasphere
Yakov Danilevskiy – Vice President Strategy, Channels and Marketing, Schneider Electric, explores that with ever more compute-intensive workloads on the horizon for business including AI, AI itself must be...
Are you choking your servers? How cleaner air provides a greener solution
Keeping the air pristine inside data centre facilities is key to operating at full proficiency and protecting electronic equipment. Operators must balance this with minimising HVAC energy use which increases...
How can data centres be a part of a sustainable future?
Daryl Elfield, Partner, Sustainable IT at KPMG UK, reveals five actionable strategies for data centre operators to enhance sustainability and adopt greener, more eco-conscious practices. The UN’s Sustainable D...
Can we sustain the digital age? Balancing data growth with resource...
The world has an insatiable need for data, which inevitably leads to increased energy usage and water wastage. Keeping up with digital demand while balancing sustainability is a major challenge, Steve Dawson, Closed...
Beyond the blueprint: The fusion of function and form in data centre design
Data centre design is more than just appearance – it’s an intricate blend of logistics, energy efficiency and technology implementation. Voices from the industry share their views on achieving a balance between aes...
Beyond backup: How nickel-zinc is redefining in-rack energy storage for AI
As AI drives higher rack densities and more dynamic power demand, the role of in-rack energy storage is expanding. High-rate nickel-zinc technology brings a combination of power density, rapid response and superior...
Powering the next wave of AI infrastructure growth in the UK & Ireland
With AI-focused workloads driving power demands, data centres across the UK and Ireland are facing increasing constraints on power availability. Matthew Baynes, Vice President, Secure Power and Data Centres, UK and...
Why your data centre strategy has it backwards
Oliver Lindner from FNT Software outlines the case for planning-first DCIM in an industry addicted to monitoring. The data centre industry has a monitoring problem. Not a lack of monitoring – quite the opposite. Over t...
AI, acceleration and infrastructure: How intelligent data centres are...
The pace of Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation is forcing major change inside the world’s data centres. From high-density hardware to hybrid cooling strategies and real-time telemetry, today’s facilities must be bot...
Reducing arc flash risk in high density data centres
In the race to build faster and denser data centres, a critical risk continues to lurk in the background – arc flash. As power densities rise, so does the cost of complacency if data centres do not update their arc f...
Virgin Media O2 works with EkkoSense to unlock data centre cooling energy...
We spoke with Adrian Lazenby, Head of Technical Site Engineering and Delivery, Virgin Media O2, about how Virgin Media O2’s data centre team took advantage of EkkoSense’s AI-powered cooling optimisation software to sec...
Aprolis UK trades ageing servers for a smarter, centralised setup with Node4
Marcus Curtis, IT Manager, Aprolis UK, explains how moving 90 ageing, scattered servers into Node4’s Virtual Data Centre cut the company’s physical estate to 24, while giving his team the fixed pricing and ...
Digital Realty empowers Turing’s Gaggle Cluster with optimal data centre e...
Robust and flexible platform supporting large-scale GPU cluster for AI-driven autonomous vehicles boosts Turing’s speed-to-market by 75%. Digital Realty, a global provider of cloud-and carrier-neutral data centre, c...
Virgin Media O2 works with EkkoSense to unlock data centre cooling energy...
We spoke with Adrian Lazenby, Head of Technical Site Engineering and Delivery, Virgin Media O2, about how Virgin Media O2’s data centre team took advantage of EkkoSense’s AI-powered cooling optimisation software to sec...
Pure Storage empowers Andra to cut data centre footprint by 80%
Andra, the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management, has turned to Pure Storage to modernise its IT infrastructure with a secure, reliable and resilient data storage platform that fulfils sustainability...
Bord Gais Energy set to benefit from Kyndryl’s management of hyperscaler and p...
Kyndryl’s focus on improving Bord Gáis Energy’s IT infrastructure will enhance end-customer experiences by ensuring less downtime, platform stability and faster resolutions. In an economy recently challenged by hi...
NetApp continues to steer AMF1 to optimised performances from track to TV
Earlier this year, Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team and NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, renewed their ongoing partnership ahead of the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship to optimise the AMF1...
