How can data centres improve performance and how should this be calculated as a metric? Ian Bitterlin considers the question: should we care about PUE? The term data centre efficiency is a misuse of the basic physical definition of ‘energy out divided by energy in’. With very few exceptions, probably Read more…
Kao data centre to work with OCP Foundation on pilot programme
Kao Data has been working together with the Open Compute Project (OPC) Foundation in a pilot programme to make its London One facility OCP-Ready. OCP is working with two data centres – one US, and one European (Kao Data) – to this end. The recently completed Kao Data London One 8.8MW facility, Read more…
Vertiv extends partnership with Russian data centre operator IXcellerate
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has announced at Datacloud Europe the extension of its partnership with IXcellerate. The Russian data centre provider recently launched the third expansion of its Moscow One campus, creating one of the largest data halls in Russia. Vertiv has been a technology partner for IXcellerate since Read more…
Russia’s ‘Google’ achieves a fast return on DSR
One of the world’s most popular search engines believes DSR can increase resilience and save money With data centres in Russia, Finland, the Netherlands and the US, Yandex operates one of world’s most popular internet search engines and the most popular in Russia. The data centre operator is bucking the industry trend – not Read more…
Riello wins award for data centre efficiency project
Riello UPS has been recognised for the third year in a row at the DCS Awards. The critical power protection provider claimed the Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year category and won a public vote to beat three other finalists – Romonet Ltd, EcoRacks, and Kao. The company took the top Read more…
Mind the skills gap: the human element in data centre resilience
There is a lot of talk of skills gaps within the data centre sector, but there is also a need to attract ‘new blood’. So where will the sector find the talent pool it needs? Louise Frampton reports The human element within the data centre sector is a major issue Read more…
Call for data centres to improve thermal strategies
Thermal issues are top of the list of problems found in data centres, warns Vertiv’s Simon Brady. He tells Louise Frampton that data centre operators need to get to grips with the basics Seconds matter when mission critical systems go down, with the recovery potentially taking hours or even days Read more…
Keysource wins FM contract with Indectron
Critical environment specialist, Keysource, has won a five-year contract with colocation provider, Indectron, to provide facilities management and technical services at its Gloucester data centre. Keysource will provide a full range of FM services at Indectron’s Shield House site, including engineering, service management, remote monitoring and coordinating all planned maintenance. This Read more…
Datum completes expansion project at Farnborough
Datum has completed another expansion project with critical environment specialist Keysource. The expansion project allows Datum to meet the growing requirements of clients, while continuing to meet SLAs for cooling and improving the efficiency of the facility which is now operating at a full site PUE of 1.25. Continuing to invest Read more…
Schneider wins ‘Innovation of the Year’ award
Schneider Electric has won ‘Data Centre innovation of The Year’ at the DCS Awards, 2018. The award, decided by popular vote, recognises the company for innovation and leadership. Part of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure for Data Centers architecture, HyperPod is a rack ready data centre system designed to deploy IT in increments Read more…
Panduit wins industry award for contribution to data centre industry
At the recent 2018 DCS industry awards, Panduit won the Industry Award, for its outstanding contribution to some of the industry’s most significant breakthroughs in IP networking, data centre power and cooling, Ethernet standards, industrial automation and operational stress testing. At a packed event in London, John Marshall, Channel Manager, Read more…
Cut your energy bills with modular UPS
Electricity is your data centre’s single biggest operating cost All that power to keep your servers and ICT equipment running, not forgetting the air conditioning so it stays operating safely, can easily add up to 60% of your overheads. With demands for data storage and processing intensifying in an increasingly interconnected Read more…
Protect your data and stay connected at the edge
Internet use is trending towards bandwidth-intensive content and an increasing number of attached “things”. At the same time, mobile telecom networks and data networks are converging into a cloud computing architecture. To support needs today and tomorrow, computing power and storage is being inserted out on the network edge to Read more…
Data centres must tackle thermal issues
Many data centres are failing to get to grips with thermal issues, putting their facilities at risk, Vertiv’s Simon Brady, Head of Data Centre Optimisation, EMEA, has warned. “When carrying out surveys, in 2017, I found thermal issues in virtually every case – in fact, it was the number one Read more…
Higher chilled water temperatures can improve energy efficiency by 64%
One approach to reducing water chiller energy consumption is to design the cooling system so that a higher outlet water temperature (CHW) from the chillers can be tolerated while maintaining a sufficient cooling effort. In this way, chillers consume less energy by not having to work as hard, and the Read more…
JCB generators in pole position for Grand Prix support
JCB’s high powered generators and other machines are in pole position to support Williams Martini Racing, as the team tours the top European Formula One circuits. A convoy of JCB machinery has left Staffordshire on a 9,000-mile summer road trip to help the JCB-sponsored team in the build-up to race Read more…
PAI Partners acquires M Group Services
M Group Services, a leading service provider to the regulated infrastructure markets in the UK and Ireland, has announced an agreement to be acquired by PAI Partners, a major private equity investor in businesses across Europe, from First Reserve, a leading private equity firm exclusively focused on energy. Commenting on Read more…
Tech giants to give keynote address at Anglia Ruskin University
CNet Training, a provider of technical education for the digital infrastructure industry, is introducing a Tech Leaders Keynote Address this June in Cambridge, UK, with tech giants IBM and CBRE. The address, which is in support of a Master’s Degree in Data Centre Leadership and Management, is on 6 June Read more…
Data centre at former bomb shelter achieves Tier IV certification
Data Shelter has announced that the company’s data centre at a former bomb shelter in Fort Pierce, Florida, has been awarded Tier IV Design Certification, the highest-level design designation from Uptime Institute. The new data centre will incorporate the hardened qualities of the original Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter coupled Read more…
Siemens to harness AI to improve cooling efficiency
The Siemens Building Technologies Division is expanding its existing Thermal Optimisation offering set for data centres to intelligently ensure both highly efficient cooling production and cooling distribution throughout the entire facility. To improve the way cooling is distributed throughout data centre “white space,” Siemens is integrating Vigilent’s artificial intelligence-based dynamic Read more…
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