From time to time, The DCA likes to take a step back from ‘what’ to consider ‘why’. Jon Summers, Research Lead at RI.SE & DCA Advisory Board Member, writes in collaboration with ChatGPT, discussing how the digital age has changed the way we operate and function and how the hierarchy of needs provides a useful framework for examining […]

Building the ideal apprenticeship environment is a key component to closing the data centre skills gap. Steve Hayward, Senior Director European Operations, CyrusOne, offers a solution to how data centre operators and the wider community can respond to join untapped talent with growing businesses in need of support.  With recent UK Government data finding over 95% […]

Nick Smith, Business Development Manager at Genetec, says that in order to secure an organisation against cyberattacks, it should approach security holistically – recognising it as both a business issue and an IT issue and both should work together collaboratively to address it.  As the use of data centres has grown in popularity, so has […]

Agility Logistics Parks, a developer of industrial and logistics real estate in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, announced the launch of tailored, master-planned datacentre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana, with more to come. The sites are being readied at ultra-modern Agility Logistics Parks warehousing complexes in fast-growing markets and […]

Bob Collinson, MD – Noveus Energy, considers the UK grid’s available capacity and the situation with new connections. He then looks at the on-site self-generation of energy through renewable options to mitigate the risk of not getting connected. He concludes with a look at related pressures on data centres, including hedging market costs, tenant expectations […]

Stephen Beard, Global Head of Data Centres, Knight Frank, discusses how real estate and data centres marry up, data centre growth in the UK market compared to the global picture and why Manchester should be a top priority for data centre investment. What does your role entail and can you give an overview of what a […]

Honeywell’s Senior Data Centre Director, Alpesh Saraiya, has unveiled key challenges facing the data centre industry this year, centring on: mounting sustainability pressure, a skills gap exacerbated by senior experts retiring in the next decade and an acquisition-induced race to reduce operational costs. This comes as Australia’s data centre market heads towards circa A$13.5 billion […]

Mark Pestridge, Senior Customer Experience Director at Telehouse, discusses why data centre leaders – particularly in Europe – should tackle the energy and climate crises head on with outsourced services such as colocation, which offer cost savings, efficiency and scalability in times of economic pressure.  Previously unseen levels of volatility in the energy market has created […]

Paul Brickman, Group Commercial Director at Crestchic Loadbanks, explores the role of load banks as we move through 2023. His discussion centres around the importance of load bank technology in the energy and data centres sector and their role in the coming months. An increasing reliance on power, combined with the ongoing energy transition and current […]