The Future of Retail Infrastructure – Resilient Network and Edge Data Centre
The events that transpired in year 2020 has changed the way the retail industry interacts with consumers. With restrictions continually changing and the uncertainty of future lock downs, it has......
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Overcoming the next set of challenges for data centre construction
Throughout 2020, the data centre sector has played a crucial role in supporting business and mission critical applications across many sectors. Indeed many vendors, construction organisations and...
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5 Important Considerations when Selecting an Effective Maintenance Program for Data Center Physical Infrastructure
Power and cooling systems like UPSs, PDUs, air handlers, and condensers are essential for ensuring the critical IT loads of a data center remain operational. But if those physical...
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Leveraging Data Analytics to Drive Desired Outcomes
The last thing anybody wants in their data center is an unplanned outage. Roughly one-third of all reported data center outages end up costing more than $250,000 annually, with many... Read more...
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System-wide Resilience: The Critical Success Factor for Colocation Providers
Most of the cloud and colocation service provider clients I meet are concerned with offering high-reliability data center operations to their customers. In a previous blog post, I talk about... ...
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The Sustainability Imperative for Data Centres
It’s commonly accepted that we’re at crossroads where the decisions we make today will not only shape future generations, but our entire planet. This has become particularly apparent in the... ...
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In 2021, Automation will Drive Data Center and Network Innovation
2020 will be mostly remembered as a bad year in business – unless you were in the home gym, pajama pants, or the digital acceleration business. There was a global... Read more »
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Flying Houses, Family Helicopters, and the Risk of Predictions: 4 Pragmatic Data Center Insights on 5G, Edge, and More
People ask me to make predictions on a pretty regular basis – and I hate doing so. All predictions come with risk and I would much rather leave them to... Read more »
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Why Battery Backup is a Must Have to Protect Your Smart Home’s Network
With smart home technology, our dependency on apps and voice commands, to play our favourite music, stream shows, change the room temperature or lighting, has grown manifold. This necessitates...
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Making the Next Generation of Data Centers More Sustainable
Major social and business trends are emerging and they have the capacity to alter the way that hyperscale and colocation data center facilities are designed. That is my big takeaway... Read more...
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SF6-Free MV Switchgear: A Contributing Factor in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cloud & Colocation Service Providers
A recent IDC report showed that data center capacity is projected to grow 4.5 percent from 2019 to 2024[1], confirming that the market shows no signs of slowing. With this... Read more »
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The New Space Age is Opening Opportunities for Edge Computing
Futuristic satellite communications are starting to become likely, viable for a couple of scenarios: for extremely remote areas, and in the situation when all our communications technologies have...
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Comparing Dielectric Fluid Choices to Find the Best Solution for Your Data Center Liquid Cooling Needs
Hypothetically speaking, would you rather risk a fire in your data center or accidentally release gases into the environment that would contribute to global warming? This might sound like a... ...
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Open-Access Fiber: Transforming how last-mile internet infrastructure is deployed
The demand on data centers has never been higher, and it’s only going to grow. How do we build and run today — for tomorrow? The Data Center Tech Bytes podcast series... Read more »
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Hyperscale Data Center Design for an On-site, Self-generation Solution Using Natural Gas Engine
One of the main challenges hyperscale data centers face is power capacity shortages, as well as the need to reduce their environmental footprint. Gas power generation is one alternative for... ...
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Safety on University Campuses Part 2: Access Control and Cybersecurity
In the first part of this blog series, we have covered the important role of power reliability and final distribution in safety on university campus. In part two, I will... Read more »
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Business Pressures Drive Colocation Providers to Expand Power Monitoring and Management
The colocation market is poised to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 12.9 percent from 2020 to 2027. This steady growth requires colocation providers to balance resources and... Read...
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5G will Drive Heavy Adoption of Edge Computing in Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Technologies
Most people believe manufacturing is highly automated, and they are right! Robots are heavily used in process automation to make everything from cookies and computers to convertibles. However, the...
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Improving Data Center Cooling efficiency by Understanding DeltaT
Hi, Victor Avelar here with your video number two of the 10 Minute Insights series, just a group of small videos to help you answer any questions you might have... Read more »
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Mackenzie Health Installs Prefabricated Modular Data Centers to Improve Efficiency and Increase Reliability at Hospital Sites
Health care institutions were already facing significant challenges with the boom in digitization, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, real-time patient tracking, demands of an aging population,...
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