Modern networks are under significant pressure due to increased digitalisation in both work and domestic lives. It’s crucial that infrastructure, including data centre cabinets, meets these demands. Jon Barker, Technical Manager – Europe at Chatsworth Products, talks us through the key features of the ZetaFrame product, which is soon to be manufactured in the UK, […]

Steve Hone, CEO – The DCA, discusses the benefits of hyperscale data centres and how they are set to dominate data centre spending. The number of hyperscale data centres currently stands at just over 700 worldwide – a figure which represents a doubling in both the number of hyperscale data centres and capacity in just […]

Shared Resource Service (SRS) made the decision to move to Vantage Data Centers’ CWL1 data centre campus in the UK, offering an affordable and future-proofed private cloud hosting environment for delivering shared digital services to the South Wales public sector. Matt Lewis, Chief Operating Officer at SRS, explains how the organisation now has a more […]

The retail sector has undergone a period of transformation, digitalising to meet changing customer buying behaviour and demand for digital experiences. But, as the grid strains under increased pressure, the retail sector has a part to play in balancing this through smart infrastructure solutions. Henk IJspeerd, Director Key Accounts Retail EMEA, Vertiv, tells us more […]

Nokia has announced it will provide its data centre switching solutions for Microsoft’s data centre facilities to support the bandwidth growth to Microsoft Azure as part of a multi-faceted deal. The deal expands the long-standing relationship between the companies, who have been working together to bring massively scaled, agile and highly resilient networking to the […]

CoreSite, a leading hybrid IT solutions provider and subsidiary of American Tower Corporation, has announced it will now serve customers in its Boston data centre facility with a highly energy-efficient cooling system that will save an estimated 8 million kilowatt-hours each year. The equipment upgrade is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to deploy efficient power and cooling […]

phoenixNAP, a global IT services provider offering security-focused cloud infrastructure, dedicated servers, colocation and specialised Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology solutions, has announced the launch of its Bare Metal Cloud (BMC) Edge location in Austin, Texas. Deployed at an American Tower Edge Data Center, this location provides low-latency access to Bare Metal Cloud out of the US […]

Secure I.T. Environments, one of the UK’s leading design and build companies for modular, containerised and micro data centres, has announced that it has completed two major data centre projects for a UK financial investment and wealth management company. The two projects were a phased relocation of the primary data centre and a separate new Disaster […]

The Raxio Group, a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, has announced it is investing and establishing ‘Raxio Tanzania’, one of the first state-of-the-art, carrier-neutral, Tier III data centres in the country. Raxio Tanzania is the latest facility to be part of Raxio’s fast-expanding network of interconnected carrier-neutral, Tier III data centres across the African continent. As the […]

Khazna Data Centers, one of the UAE’s largest data centre providers, has achieved the Uptime Institute’s Tier III certification of Constructed Facility for its Apollo 5 and Apollo 6 data centres. Earlier this year, Khazna was awarded the same accreditation for its Apollo 3 and 4 facilities.  Data centres are both drivers and enablers for […]