CyrusOne, a leading global real estate investment trust (REIT), has announced the freehold purchase of a five-acre site at a prime location in Alcobendas, Madrid, to build a new data centre facility. This is the company’s first planned European facility beyond the FLAP-D markets and will enable customers to rapidly scale Digital Transformation strategies by […]

In response to the increasing requirement by organisations in the data centre, commercial, media and high-tech sectors to upgrade, modernise and expand their mission critical facilities and infrastructure, Business Critical Solutions (BCS) has appointed an experienced Head of Critical Infrastructure. Simon Harris will take up the role, bringing with him over 20 years’ experience of […]

VertivAvocent ADX Ecosystem provides fast, seamless and highly secure remote management of IT assets. Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has introduced the Vertiv Avocent ADX Ecosystem, a next-generation IT management platform that meets the ever-changing needs of the data centre. The Avocent ADX Ecosystem is a building block of […]

Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and Equinix are building on their longstanding relationship by expanding collaboration and establishing a new deployment for GBI at the Equinix data centre in Oman. Since 2015, GBI has benefitted greatly from connections in key European Equinix data centre locations in both Amsterdam and Frankfurt and so GBI’s new presence at Equinix MC1 […]

Emerging energy storage technologies signal radical changes for data centre power. Ed Ansett, Founder and Chairman, i3 Solutions Group, discusses the future of the data centre industry with a focus on data centre energy storage developments and emerging technologies. Rapid technology advances are about to shift the landscape of energy storage options for data centre […]

EfficiencyIT has announced its appointment of Steve Henson as its new Senior Data Centre Architect. Henson joins the company following a 30-year tenure in the data centre industry. He will work collaboratively with EfficiencyIT’s growing customer base to help data centre owners and operators in the enterprise, life science and local government sectors implement power, […]

There is a continued focus on reducing the carbon footprint of data centres. But how can data centre teams identify the tools they need in order to boost efficiencies and save energy? Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Global SVP & CTO, for Data Center Business Unit of Huawei, tells us how data centre managers can use technology […]

Thésée DataCenter has launched its new French colocation offering, working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Future Facilities and New Generation to create an innovative colocation customer experience. Thésée DataCenter delivers a groundbreaking colocation home-away-from-home data centre experience after working in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Future Facilities, Watt Design and New Generation. Using end-to-end […]

“The Information Technology industry hasn’t always had a great reputation when it comes to sustainability, however, things are much better these days and the industry has stepped up to play its part in protecting this fragile planet,” said Andrew Brinded, SVP EMEA Sales, Nutanix. “But with cloud computing, the opportunity is there to take chunks […]

The Raxio Group (Raxio), a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, has announced that it is establishing and investing in ‘Raxio Mozambique’, with a first state-of-the-art, carrier neutral data centre in Mozambique. Set to be commissioned during 2022, Raxio Mozambique’s first facility will be located approximately 20 km from downtown Maputo at the Beluluane Industrial Park, ideally situated to meet both primary and Disaster Recovery needs […]