As global economies begin to regulate their water conservation efforts, it is only a matter of time before the data centre sector, alongside many others, is held accountable for its use of water. Tim Bound, Director for Transtherm Cooling Industries, a leading innovator in adiabatic cooling technology, encourages specifiers to move in favour of a […]
Data volume, mobility and the Internet of Things all require decentralised computing power as an extension to hyperscale data centres. Shibu Vahid, Head of Technical Operations, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa talks further about this shift to the edge and how telcos can help prepare for it. The growth in private and business data […]
Simon Bearne, Commercial Director at UK data centre operator NGD, delves beyond the headlines of a new European data centre pricing report. Datacentrepricing.com’s most recent pricing trends surveys, undertaken at the end of 2018, continued to find the UK to be the highest priced overall in Europe. I say ‘continued’ as their previous mid-year report […]
SBV Services stops millions of attacks while protecting cash in transit, employees, and data with Trend Micro. Overview SBV Services is a leading provider of customised cash services and solutions to reserve and commercial banks, ATMs, and retail environments. Founded in South Africa in 1986, SBV recently expanded its footprint into other African countries and is […]
User’s demand for cloud-hosted services has shown no signs of waning and as the International Data Corp (IDC) predicts data creation will hit 163 zettabytes by 2025, the need for modernised data centres is only set to rise. Bharat Mistry, Principal Security Strategist, Trend Micro, discusses how and why enterprises should be ensuring their data […]
Iskandar Najmuddin, Specialist Architect at Rackspace, discusses how container adoption could plug the enterprise cloud skills gap. Businesses increasingly rely on complex technologies to power their day-to-day business operations. These complex solutions can require highly skilled and supportive expertise, forcing many organisations to spend large amounts of time and effort on the maintenance of basic […]
Huawei is preparing for a March launch for its cloud data services in Africa. The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centres in Johannesburg initially and later Cape Town. Huawei will deploy localised public cloud services based on local industry policies, customer requirements and partner conditions. Globally, Huawei […]
Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, has announced the availability of its new ICX 7850 switch: an edge-to-core solution for the next decade of enterprise networking. Ruckus’ stackable ICX 7850 delivers high-density aggregation for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE using existing customer investment in fibre cabling, making it suitable for large, secure enterprise edge networks in education, […]
EkkoSense’s Dr Stu Redshaw, explains why it’s time for data centre operations to ditch their spreadsheets and start paying attention to much more granular, real-time thermal and power measurements. Ask any operations team if their data centre rooms are fully performance-optimised and the answer will invariably be yes. However, despite the best efforts of FM […]
DigiPlex, a Nordic leader for innovative, sustainable and secure data centres, has opened a new server hall in its Stockholm data centre to meet increasing customer demand. The new hall is tailored for customers with one or more server racks, who want their IT environment housed in one of Sweden’s most secure and environmentally efficient […]
