Digital Realty has closed on the acquisition of a 3.5-acre land parcel located in Ferriers-en-Brie, east of Paris. Environmental and operational building permits are currently in place, and Digital Realty will immediately commence construction on a new, 12megawatt data centre.
Read MoreAward-winning manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies Riello UPS has launched a major new publication exploring the likelihood of a nationwide electricity grid failure in the UK.
Read MoreWith the rapid growth of data centers across the world come new challenges. To meet these challenges, technology leader ABB is piloting a new ABB Ability Data Center Automation offering with one of the fastest growing colocation data center providers globally.
Read MoreLeveraging their extensive experience in providing converged IT infrastructure management and intelligent connectivity solutions, RiT Tech are showcasing DNIO (Datacenter, Network & Infrastructure Orchestration). The full-stack, open-framework solution that takes the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) concept to its metamorphosis, capable of delivering higher levels of business agility.
Read MoreNearly one-third of organisations (30%) said they had lost data as a result of a data centre outage in the past year, while more than four in ten (42%) said they had experienced a period of downtime. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Unitrends, which polled more than 400 respondents from organisations of all sizes and industries about the challenges and trends that IT departments and admins face when protecting data from downtime and disasters.
Read MoreWhen Interxion decided to expand its operations in Marseille, real-estate and power constraints led the company to build a second data centre four kilometres from the original site, and connect the two facilities with a super-fast Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) network. This allowed Interxion to create a single virtualised data centre campus, giving its clients light-speed access to subsea cables, platforms, connectivity providers and other partners at both sites.
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