Equinix to reduce energy use by “adjusting the thermostat”

Equinix has announced plans to reduce its power use by increasing operating temperature ranges within its data centres.

Will data centre investment be the catalyst for cloud adoption in Africa?

Neil Templeton, VP of Marketing at Console Connect explores the current landscape for data centre investment in Africa, following a year of 'big change' for the continent.

The skills shortage – how bad is it?

A threat to the delivery of new technical real estate to meet demand is a lack of sufficiently qualified professionals available to the industry, from design and build staff to operational personnel. James Hart, CEO at BCS, asks – how real is this threat now, and what consequences might it have on the European market?

Skilling up for sustainability

Jakub Wolski, Data Centre Strategy & Business Development Leader at Trend, discusses how integrating specialised tools and skills can help achieve sustainability goals.

Backup power: the cost of failure

With the risks posed by power outages a growing threat to data centre uptime, Paul Brickman from Crestchic Loadbanks explores why testing backup power systems is more important than ever before.

Getting distributed systems right

Dom Couldwell, Field CTO at DataStax, explores how to get data consistency across edge and centralised data sets, and the value that can be achieved out of edge data.

Utilising clean energy

Chris Pennington, Director of Energy and Sustainability at Iron Mountain, explores how clean energy can help drive data centres towards a sustainable future.

Innovations in data centre cooling

Innovations in data centre cooling are paving the way to a more sustainable future, says Emilia Coverdale, Marketing Project Manager at Asperitas.

How data centres can help secure energy supplies

Jason Yates, Riello UPS Technical Services Manager, outlines how data centres could help secure energy supplies during what promises to be a challenging few months ahead by deploying their standby power systems.

Improved data centre resilience and efficiency is a cool outcome from Schneider Electric upgrade at UCD

The Future Campus project at University College Dublin (UCD) called for space utilised by facility plant and equipment to be given up for development to support the student population. Total Power Solutions, an Elite Partner to Schneider Electric, worked with UCD’s IT services organisation to upgrade its primary data centre cooling system, to provide greater resilience for its HPC operations whilst releasing valuable real estate.

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