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Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

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Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

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Data centre sustainability and 40 years of innovative engineering with Kao Data CTO, Gérard Thibault

Published in Hosting + Colocation

Gerard Thibault, CTO at Kao Data, reflects on his electrical engineering career, with 40+ years spent in the data centre sector. He provides both valuable and fascinating insights into how the data centre industry has, and has not, changed over time and remains optimistic that today’s twin objectives of digitalisation and sustainability will remain compatible.

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Keeping control of the cloud

Published in Cloud Cloud + MS Digital Business

Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.

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Time for a sustainability revolution?

Published in Design + Optimisation Digital Business Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.

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Edge computing to take centre stage

Published in Infrastructure + Hardware Storage + Servers

Elliott Young, CTO, Dell Technologies UK, discusses edge computing – what is or isn’t happening as of now, how it contributes to companies’ sustainability objectives and, perhaps most importantly, the huge potential it offers almost every business when it comes to optimising the performance of their applications.

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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DC Facilities + Colo

Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?

Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT

Data centre sustainability and 40 years of innovative engineering with Kao Data CTO, Gérard Thibault

Keeping control of the cloud

Time for a sustainability revolution?

Edge computing to take centre stage

What does the future look like for UPS systems in a sustainable data centre industry?

Fibre overlooked in UK infrastructure planning

Go tell it on the (Green) Mountain (Part 1)

Best practice data centre optimisation

Delivering a digital data centre model

Collaboration is critical to data centre industry’s ongoing success

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz