Open Compute and data centre architectures

A new White Paper from Schneider Electric considers the capital costs of OCP-compliant data centres, including the implications for redundancy, availability and flexibility of upstream power infrastructure.

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Green Experts reach consensus on ICTFOOTPRINT.eu innovative approach for measuring energy efficiency

Energy consumption in the ICT sector accounts for almost 10% of electricity consumption in the European Union. By decreasing emissions by just 15%, the ICT sector can make savings of ˆ600 billion by 2020.

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Renewable energy for Scottish data centre

DataVita, a Scottish datacentre provider, has selected SSE as its chosen energy supplier, meeting the objective of powering the Fortis datacentre using 100% renewable energy sources. This will allow customers to reduce carbon emissions by 95% for their IT services hosted in the facility.

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Minkels launches its MatrixCube mini data centre solution in Europe

After the successful initial launch of the MatrixCube in Belgium this past year, Minkels will now extend this offering to the Netherlands as well. The Dutch market launch will then be followed by other countries including Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and global export regions. The European launch will be accompanied by Minkels’ presentation of the MatrixCube at Infosecurity (15 and 16 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium).

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Virtual power distribution

Nlyte Software has announced the Virtual Power Distribution Unit (V-PDU) availability as part of the company’s leading Data Center Service Management (DCSM) Solution.  The V-PDU offers equivalent capabilities and functionality of   hardware-based PDU’s but at a 90 percent cost savings.

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ZTE and Tencent construct 'world’s most energy-efficient' mobile modular data centre

ZTE Corporation has joined leading Internet company Tencent to successfully build Tencent West Lab, a fully mobile containerised data center with world-leading levels of energy efficiency.

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New research from The Green Grid has found that despite nine in ten IT leaders acknowledging the...
Meeting today’s data centre stand-by power operational requirements, Natural Gas (NG) generators...
More than 60% of businesses are now considering how IT can help them be more sustainable, according...
Plan to deploy and operate 100 gigawatt hours of energy storage in Europe by 2030.
Hyperscale and colocation data centers can be an important source of flexibility in Europe’s...
A new animated video from the European Data Centre Association provides an education in the...
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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