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 […]

Investing in a local data residence, or partnering with a vendor that already has a local data storage facility, offers many benefits for organisations. Simon Godfrey, EMEA Senior Sales Director, Secureworks, explores why EU businesses prefer to have their security telemetry data stored locally so that it complies with GDPR and other regulations. The location […]

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 […]

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 […]

In 2020, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced its draft Data Centre Policy, designed to make the country more attractive for domestic and foreign investment into the data centre sector. In this article, Ed Cooke, Founder at Conexus Law, shares some of his experiences of working on Indian projects including some of […]

With organisations in the data centre sector expected to deliver on net zero carbon, they must make best use of the tools available to them in order to unlock significant data centre carbon reduction that the wider business requires. Dean Boyle, CEO, EkkoSense, draws upon some of the ways data centre managers can make smarter […]