A partnership between Big Data Exchange, National University of Singapore and Sembcorp Marine is exploring the development of sustainable ocean data centers to address land scarcity in Singapore. Big Data Exchange (BDx), a Pan Asian data center cluster, the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Engineering (NUS Engineering) and Sembcorp Marine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to […]
Many modern organisations are now operating with a hybrid workplace model. While there are many benefits to this approach, there are also challenges – particularly when it comes to providing a positive employee experience. We hear from Nerys Mutlow, Evangelist, Chief Innovation Office, ServiceNow, about the company’s latest innovations and how it is delivering on […]
Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Global SVP and CTO, for Data Centre Business Unit of Huawei, explains to us why lithium-ion batteries in data centres feature longer service life, less footprint, low load bearing requirements, simple maintenance, environmental protection and reliable stability than lead-acid batteries. Global authoritative consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, recently released Analysis of Lithium […]
Google has announced the general availability of its new cloud zone for Melbourne. Helping to further enable the journey to hybrid cloud, government and enterprise organisations can connect locally and natively to Google Cloud’s Melbourne zone from NextDC’s M2 data centre. M2 Melbourne is the newest cloud hosting location for Google Cloud, offering two Google Interconnect access […]
Fortinet has announced the FortiGate 3500F Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) to protect organisations with hybrid data centres against the ever-growing threat landscape and ransomware attacks. Organisations are adopting hybrid data centres to increase operational agility. As the data centre infrastructure becomes more distributed, however, the attack surface expands and more blind spots emerge, increasing the potential […]
Tanium has announced that its cloud-based endpoint visibility and control solution, Tanium as a Service (TaaS), is now available via local data centres in Canada, the UK, Brazil and Australia to support customers. By delivering TaaS via local data centres, Tanium is able to provide customers in these regions with enhanced TaaS performance, better support for […]
In this edition of our Deep Dive series, Lisa Schwartz, Director, Product Marketing, AEM, tells us how cabling infrastructure planning needs to change to adapt to increased numbers of connected devices on enterprise networks.
Knight Frank, a global property adviser, has released key findings from its Data Centre Report 2021 which evidences that the data centre market has experienced strong momentum in 2021. The report, published in partnership with DC Byte, shows EMEA markets have seen take-up rise 4% in the last quarter to 120MW, with a 10% increase […]
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 […]
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 […]
