With sustainability and the climate crisis among the most heavily talked about subjects across the data centre industry, data centre leaders must make strategic decisions towards managing such trends which are set to take place over the next 12 months. Here, experts from Vertiv identify some of the industry’s most likely trends they predict will […]

Ashish Moondra – Senior Product Manager, Power, Electronics & Software at Chatsworth Products (CPI), discusses the challenge that colocation providers are currently facing and suggests some best practice advice when looking to overcome this and get new customers up and running quickly. As the transition from the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence […]

DC Byte, a leading data centre research and analytics platform, has shared the latest statistics and insights from its most recent Data Centre Report, published in partnership with Knight Frank, a leading global property adviser. While 2021 initially brought uncertainty as to what demand would look like after the increased buying cycles accelerated by the […]

It’s been a turbulent year to say the least and data centre organisations must adapt to the technology demands thrust upon them by the pandemic, or risk being left behind. Will King, Managing Director, DC Byte, reflects on the past 12 months and predicts what the future has in store for the industry. The data […]

We often tend to focus on the specific technology and infrastructure that makes up a data centre, paying less attention to the design and build of the data centre itself. Martin Williamson, Head of Commissioning – Middle East, AESG, outlines what a comprehensive data centre commissioning process should look like and why it is important […]

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has released the results of an in-depth research project to identify Edge infrastructure models to help organisations move toward a more standardised approach to Edge Computing deployments, with the intent to improve costs and deployment times. The report, Edge Archetypes 2.0: Deployment-Ready Edge Infrastructure […]

Achieving successful Digital Transformation is a complex task and data centre managers must implement innovative strategies which ensure availability, scalability and more importantly, sustainability. Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Global SVP of Business Development & Global CTO for the Digital Power Business at Huawei Technologies, discusses the tech giant’s strategy for successful data centre innovation and tells […]

John Booth, Chair DCA Energy Efficiency SIG and MD Carbon 3IT, discusses how the data centre sector can improve its operations to create a more efficient and sustainable business environment, and make the goal of being net zero neutral by 2050, a reality. There is no doubt that sustainability in terms of data centres is […]

As global data centre capacity is expected to rapidly increase in the not too far distant future, Fabrizio Garrone, Aruba representative on the Board of Directors of Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, says the data centre industry must take steps towards becoming more sustainable. A silver lining of the pandemic is that environmental issues came […]

The possibility of system failure is incomprehensible for data centre providers, with disruption from failing equipment subject to punitive fines, damaged reputations and worse. This situation can often arise from ineffective testing of critical infrastructure to ensure its resilience during peak times. Taking this into account, Greger Ruud, Sector Development Manager – Nordics Data Centres […]