Expert Opinions | Digitalisation World

How to build a green data centre

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

Today, the digitalisation of almost everything we see and touch is transforming many industries including banking, retail, manufacturing as well as enabling the rise of social media and more. What many people don’t know is that data centres, the infrastructure behind connected technology, sit at...

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Solving the data centre staffing crisis

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management

The rapid growth of the data centre sector has caused a worsening crisis in staffing levels. The situation means it is also becoming more difficult to find skilled employees for open infrastructure positions, according to the Uptime Institute global data centre survey 2020. By Ryan Hogg,...

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What next for data centres?

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

Over the course of the past year, the number of tech giants that have taken a more aggressive stance on climate change and their own environmental impact has seen a significant increase. Among others, Microsoft has pledged to become carbon negative, Amazon is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2040,...

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Your data centre may not be dead, but it's morphing

Published in Cloud Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

As interconnected services continue to proliferate, with increases in cloud providers, edge services and SaaS offerings, the rationale to stay only in a traditional data centre topology has limited advantages. This is not an overnight shift, but a change in thinking how we deliver services to our...