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Delivering value-added data centre solutions for the modern and transformed enterprise

To achieve their goals of Digital Transformation, many organisations have looked closely at their data centre environment. Wang Di, President, Huawei Digital Power, Middle East, highlights examples of how Huawei has worked closely with customers in the region to enable their organisations to scale.   Across the entirety of 2020, the business environment has become […]


Server Technology expert on creating a power strategy to ensure uptime

Ensuring uptime is a critical objective for data centre managers. Technology is helping to ease the load by providing intelligent insights into power usage. Calvin Nicholson, Senior Director of Product Management at Legrand DPC (Data, Power and Control Division), which includes the Server Technology brand, talks us through the key benefits of the company’s PRO3X […]


ZetaFrame: Enabling fast and efficient infrastructure deployment

Chatsworth Products (CPI) has launched ZetaFrame Cabinet, delivering quick turn built-to-order configurability, industry-leading load capacity and scalability. Duke Robertson, Sr. Product Manager of Cabinet Solutions, Chatsworth Products (CPI), tells Intelligent Data Centres’ Jess Phillips about some of the changing customer requirements which have shaped the strategy of this innovative product, as well as how it […]


Enterprise Digital Transformation drives the changing face of SD-WAN security

As Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has grown in popularity with businesses, it has been increasingly used to connect public and hybrid cloud services to the enterprise network and secure home-based teleworking. This brings its own security risks. Roque Lozano, Vice President of IP & Optics for Middle East and Africa at Nokia, explains how […]


Raritan expert on adding intelligence and security to physical infrastructure

Organisations across all industries are currently facing up to the decision of either modernising existing infrastructure with an overlay of new IoT or ripping and replace in its entirety. Managers are looking for innovative solutions to extend the life of existing infrastructure while also paving the way for future platforms and integrations. It’s a challenge […]


BMC Software expert on rising through seismic changes to thrive in 2025 and beyond

Rabee El Mohammadi, Area Vice President, Emerging Markets (Middle East, Africa, Turkey, Russia & CIS) at BMC Software, tells us how organisations can rise through seismic changes to thrive in 2025 and beyond. How fast is the world moving around us? At unprecedented speed. Seismic changes are bringing uncertainty and leading to fundamental shifts in […]


Editor’s Question: What challenges will data centre leaders face in 2021?

This month’s Editor’s Question focuses on the challenges which data centre leaders should expect to face next year. We hear from four experts. Justin Augat, VP of Marketing at iland Cloud, said IT organisations have long experienced the management and logistics challenges of owning and operating their own data centres. Whether it be responding to […]


Why obtain third party testing and certification on data cables?

As industries increasingly digitalize, the need for reliable data cables is critical. Mark Froggatt, Technical Director at BASEC, outlines the importance of obtaining third party certification when it comes to data communication cables and discusses how the role of cable testing helps ensure only high-quality cable is used within the communications market. In a world […]


How Artificial Intelligence helps Huawei build green data centres

Huawei tells Intelligent CIO how and why it is using Artificial Intelligence in data centres to promote green tech adoption, reduce repetitive work, monitor and manage fragmented resources which might otherwise easily be overlooked. Data centres are being overhauled, revamped and modernised to support Digital Transformation and the power-hungry cloud deployments they contain. Artificial Intelligence […]


Hybrid IT gives way to hybrid power

Robert Linsdell, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Vertiv, and Cal Lahteenmaa,  Technical Director, Asia Pacific, Vertiv, highlight the importance of data centre sustainability as organisations continue to invest in hybrid IT and workforces become increasingly virtualised. Given the changes brought on by the impact of the pandemic, hybrid IT has become the talk of […]


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