maincubes one lays foundation stone for next-generation data centre

Frankfurt-based data center operator maincubes laid the foundation stone for the new high-performance data center in Offenbach near Frankfurt on August 30, 2016, accompanied by representatives from local politics, investors, partners and future customers. At the foundation stone-laying ceremony, the speeches were made by Horst Schneider, Mayor of Offenbach, G?nther Wei?, EVO Board of Management, Stephan Lang, Managing Director of ICT Facilities and Oliver Menzel, CEO of...

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With the data centre industry becoming one of the fastest growing and power-hungry sectors, The Green Grid has urged data centre operators to commit to energy efficient practices. Without such practices in place, providers will be unable to protect consumers from excessive data restrictions as data centres seek to satisfy customer demands against dwindling energy supplies.

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EC’s RenewIT Project launches free web tool for renewable data centre design and location planning

First industry tool to model costs and benefits of renewable choices and efficiency measures; compares more than 60 European sites for locating facilities.

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White Paper compares lithium-ion and VRLA batteries for data centre applications

Despite their technical characteristics, Lithium-ion batteries have long been considered too expensive for use in backup power supplies for data centres, but decreasing costs driven by the electric car industry make their use increasingly attractive when considering the total cost of ownership over a system’s lifetime.

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Benning UK launches modular UPS system

Benning UK, the power protection and conversion specialist, has launched the Enertronic Modular SE, a new, modular three-phase UPS system for datacentres. It is specifically designed to meet the most demanding datacentre requirements, with increased efficiency delivered through its unique user selectable “sleep mode”, which intelligently deactivates modules when the supported load falls below selected levels.

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SaaS analytics solution for capacity optimisation enables individuals with little or no training to drive out cost and risk in hybrid cloud infrastructure.

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