With more than 30 years’ experience in the UK power protection business, Alex Emms, Operations Director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power, notes the strategic choices that should be made for competent power usage. Data centres are estimated to be responsible for up to 3% of global electricity consumption and are projected to touch 4% by 2030. The average hyperscale […]
As the deadline for climate neutrality nears, the lack of renewable strategies seeks to cause issues for data centre owners and operators. Richard Churchill, Director of Sales, n2s, discusses the impact of a truly circular IT asset and life cycle management regime and how conserving precious resources will aid ethical and sustainable practices. Most data […]
Jim Weynand, EVP, Business Development at GRC, discusses how data centres are using innovative techniques to capitalise on excess thermal energy – creating more opportunities for sustainable development. Data centres are notorious for exuding mass amounts of energy and heat. Maintaining the operation of servers demands a massive amount of power, which generates a lot […]
In this opinion article, Mark Yeeles, VP for Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division in the UK and Ireland shares his first impressions of the data centre industry and its key challenges including the sustainability and the energy crisis, increased demands for digitisation, and the need to both attract and retain talent. Data centres are undoubtedly […]
The amount of data in existence today is inevitably placing huge amounts of pressure on data centre facilities. Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity, discusses ESG research, commissioned by Cohesity, which explores data growth rates at more than 3,000 organisations reported that: 39% of the companies surveyed saw data volumes increase by up to 20% […]
As organisations attempt to efficiently store and operationalise data, understanding how to transition to the cloud is a critical initial step. Vincent Gaorekwe, CTO at BITanium, tells Intelligent CIO Africa and Intelligent Data Centres about how companies can cope and succeed in an ever-changing data landscape. What are key motivators driving organisations’ decisions to shift […]
Supply chains have come into sharp focus in recent times, as weather, world and geopolitical events have shown how easily even global links can be reconfigured or halted. Transparency, visibility, and resilience have never been more important. Natalya Makarochkina , Senior Vice President, Secure Power Division, International Operations, Schneider Electric discussed those characteristics and how […]
