Vertiv has announced an extension of its modular data centre capability with two product families designed to give customers even greater simplicity, efficiency and agility when deploying data centre capacity from the core to the edge of the network. Vertiv SmartMod, SmartMod MAX and Power Module are available now in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Vertiv SmartMod and SmartMod MAX Vertiv SmartMod is a fully self-contained easily-configurable, ready-to-order, […]

Felix Rosbach, Product Manager at comforte AG, discusses how data centre owners can best ensure cyber-resilience. With an ever-increasing attack surface, security is a constant struggle for data centres. While IoT enables us to analyse data like never before, every device represents a potential attack vector. Aside from DDoS attacks and other methods of sabotage, the most painful type of cyberattacks are the ones involving theft of sensitive data. Stolen data is […]

NetActuate has announced the launch of services from a new datacentre location in London, to offer increased capacity for infrastructure and boost global network performance and reliability. “To meet increasing demand for low latency network services and global infrastructure, we are excited to add a new location to our London presence,” said Mark Price, President of NetActuate. […]

Atos, a global leader in Digital Transformation, together with the Yvelines departmental Council, has officially inaugurated its new energy-efficient global datacentre in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in Yvelines. This modern optimised datacentre will house the most recent servers and technologies to guarantee Atos’ clients – who wish to locate their data and applications on French territory and […]

Marcio Saito, CTO of Opengear, provides his 2019 predictions for the datacentre landscape.  General IT (2019: another step in the move towards the edge) In general IT, there has been much talk in the past years about the reversal of the pendulum: If in the past decade IT complexity has moved to the core of […]

Super Micro Computer, Inc, a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, has released its first annual ‘Data Centers and The Environment survey report. The rapid growth of large-scale datacentres brings both business and environmental challenges to datacentre managers. The report is targeted to help datacentre managers better understand the industry […]

Submission by Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Sales Director at Security Specialist Fortinet In this digital technology era, cloud computing and IoT (Internet of Things) have become popular, meeting not only data storage but also business computing needs. Business solutions are getting smarter, with cloud computing and IoT services coming to the market to make work more […]

Cyxtera Technologies, the secure infrastructure company, has announced the integration of AppGate SDP, its software-defined perimeter solution, across its 50+ best-in-class data centres to deliver zero-trust capabilities to customers. AppGate SDP leverages micro-segmentation to apply the principle of least-privileged access to the network, which reduces the attack surface. Providing an on-demand, free edition of AppGate […]

EkkoSense, the UK-based data centre M&E Capacity Planning and Simulation software specialist, has identified the five data centre optimisation trends that it believes will make a real difference for organisations in 2019. According to EkkoSense’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr Stu Redshaw: “At EkkoSense, we believe there are multiple innovations that are ready to generate real […]

First Brick Holdings, a Roha Group company, has announced plans for multiple investments to boost the digitalisation of East and Southern Africa with the funding and development of several data centres across the region. These data centres will open up new opportunities for financial services, governments and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) by addressing their […]