A survey of experts by the Uptime Institute has highlighted the latest technologies with the most disruptive potential, and the sector is being urged to keep a close eye on these promising innovations. Louise Frampton reports If you knew an earthquake was coming, you would want to know “how big Read more…
Saft and Socomec deliver backup power system for Total’s supercomputer environment
Battery leader Saft and industrial group Socomec have delivered a high-performance UPS featuring lithium-ion data batteries for Total’s HPC data centre which hosts one of the world’s largest industrial supercomputer. Total’s supercomputer is a decision-support tool used for oil & gas exploration and field management. It allows to improve the Read more…
Schneider announces cloud-based DCIM solution
Schneider Electric has announced the continued roll out of EcoStruxure IT Expert, its cloud-based data centre infrastructure management solution, with its release in Europe. With IT Expert, Schneider Electric brings secure, vendor agnostic, wherever-you-go monitoring and visibility of all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets As part of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure architecture, Read more…
Tempus Energy’s Sarah Bell: DSR aggregators are ecstatic about Capacity Market ruling
Tempus Energy CEO Sarah Bell Tempus Energy chief executive, Sarah Bell, says demand-side response aggregators are “ecstatic” about the European Court ruling on the Capacity Market, despite fears from some market participants that auction and payment suspensions will damage market confidence. “There has been an enormously positive reaction. Every DSR Read more…
European judicial ruling on Capacity Market to bring change to UK wholesale markets
The General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in favour of Tempus Energy in its case against the European Commission annulling the Commission’s decision not to raise objections to the aid scheme when establishing a Capacity Market in the UK. The claim made was Read more…
Prime Minister welcomes £295m investment into UK by Equinix
Equinix has announced a new International Business Exchange (IBX) site at its London Slough campus. UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, has welcomed the £90m project which contributes to a total new investment in the UK’s digital infrastructure of £295m. The new flagship data centre, named LD7, is part of a fleet of Read more…
GridBeyond CEO: Hybrid behind-the-meter storage wins despite market flux
According to the recent 2018 Battery Storage report by MCP‘s sister title, The Energyst, 64% of industrial, commercial and public sector businesses surveyed are considering the implementation of behind the meter battery storage as part of their energy management strategy. At the same time, 80% of of those organisations point to revenue Read more…
Amazon Web Services to expand data centre infrastructure in Italy
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will open an infrastructure region in Italy in early 2020. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will comprise of three Availability Zones and will be AWS’s sixth region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and Sweden (launching in late Read more…
Kirby powers up Dublin’s Gemini Data Centre
Kirby Group Engineering, a provider of mechanical and electrical engineering and contracting services across Europe, has delivered a grid connection for the 18MW Gemini Data Centre, a new and significant addition to Dublin’s data centre landscape. Kirby delivered the full civil and electrical turnkey scope for this transmission connection; a Read more…
Expanded portfolio addresses growth in demand for prefabricated modular solutions
Schneider Electric has announced its expanded portfolio of EcoStruxure Ready prefabricated modular power solutions and Uptime Institute Tier-Ready reviewed reference designs. With the expanded power range Schneider is addressing the demand of the data centre industry, especially among cloud and service providers for a faster and easier way to deploy Read more…
Energy in industry 4.0: harnessing the connected site
Advances in Industry 4.0 can enhance energy strategies and improve the resilience of critical sites. DSR is often seen as a risk to critical sites, such as data centres, healthcare sites and even some manufacturing processes. What many don’t realise is that with the right technology in place, overall risk can Read more…
Flying high: averting data centre disasters
Managing a data centre is like maintaining a plane…while you’re also flying it. However, Schneider Electric has launched an invaluable guide for ‘smooth flying’, to ensure that data centre operators avert disaster. The FREE e-book – 12 Essential Elements of Data Centre Facility Operations – describes a balanced critical facility management programme Read more…
High availability ensured with double-security switching technology
The resilience of critical installations – the ability to remain operational even when there has been a power outage, hardware failure or other unforeseen disruption – is high on everyone’s agenda. With a spotlight on the direct costs and consequential losses associated with downtime, today’s electrical infrastructures require a robust Read more…
Back-up power: understanding environmental regulation
Greg Altria, associate consultant with SLR, provides an insight into the Environmental Permitting Regulations affecting mission critical sites The Environmental Permitting Regulations (England and Wales) 2016 (as amended) (EPR) are used by the government to place controls on a whole range of activities that have the ability to impact the Read more…
Ensuring resilience for critical flight systems
One of the busiest airports in the UK, Manchester Airport is the largest airport outside London with over 210 destinations served by 70 airlines. Plans are underway to double the size of some areas of the airport over a ten-year period. To support this increasing expansion, Sudlows have been commissioned to Read more…
Riello UPS rewarded for environmental excellence
Riello UPS, a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and standby power systems, has been shortlisted for a major energy efficiency prize. The critical power protection provider has been named as a finalist in the Green Award category of this year’s Daily Post Business Awards, the annual celebration of the North Read more…
ServerHouse expands data centre portfolio
Hampshire-based data centre provider ServerHouse has added another facility to its portfolio, as businesses across the South embrace the need to improve their security and data management, while bringing the cloud to the customer. The new data centre in Fareham is a 22,000 square foot tier III data centre, in easy Read more…
Keppel Data Centres, Huawei, Xiangjiang and Cloud Engine sign cooperation agreement to pool data centre expertise
Keppel Data Centres, Huawei, Xiangjiang and Cloud Engine have announced an agreement to enhance cooperation in developing more efficient and robust data centres of the future. The companies will tap one another’s expertise to develop, operate and maintain high-availability data centres in China and around the world by leveraging their respective Read more…
HyperPod solution shortlisted as finalist for innovation award
Schneider Electric has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Hyper-convergence Innovation of the year’ category at the SVC Awards 2018. The shortlisting recognises the company’s HyperPod rack ready data centre system as an enabler of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions; tightly integrating the IT, power, cooling, compute, storage, networking and virtualisation for Read more…
Free report: How businesses plan to deploy battery storage
A new report on Battery Storage has been published by The Energyst, the sister title of Mission Critical Power magazine. Based on the views of 50 public and private sector organisations considering battery storage, the report also contains insight from suppliers, aggregators and electricity system operator, National Grid. The survey finds significant appetite for storage, Read more…
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