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News Schneider Electric Launches First-Ever Physical IT Infrastructure Offering for Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses

09 May 2012

New InfraStruxure for Small IT Solution Enables SMBs to Deploy and Manage Critical IT Infrastructures in Small Environments, Built on Capabilities Previously Available Only to Large Enterprises

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced InfraStruxure™ for Small IT, the first-ever industry offer enabling small-to-medium sized businesses to design and build their physical IT infrastructures around the power of a comprehensive offering, including both software and hardware. The InfraStruxure offer, which now provides comprehensive solutions ranging from small IT environments up to two megawatt data centres had previously only been available to large enterprises. This new offer will speed the deployment, configuration and installation of IT infrastructures in small environments, such as a server room, network closet or non-dedicated space.

News GreenField Software partners with GFS Group Holdings in move to enter European market

02 May 2012

Agreement brings GreenField Software offerings into the European Union via GFS Group Holdings

GreenField Software Private Ltd, a pioneer in energy and environment management software, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with GFS Group Holdings Limited, to provide Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Energy and Sustainability Management (ESM) software solutions for enterprises in the European market. GFS Group Holdings will be the master distributor of GreenField Software’s products across the European Union and in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

News Aimes Grid Services and Keysource provide next generation cloud computing data centre infrastructure

30 Apr 2012

In partnership with Liverpool Innovation Park, AIMES Grid Services, a provider of Cloud services, has appointed Keysource to design and build a new data centre to support its next generation cloud computing infrastructure. The facility at Liverpool Innovation Park is the first phase of a new Cloud Computing Campus. The initial development will provide up to 10,000sq ft of net technical space and the capacity to develop a total of 35,000sq ft.

News Colt to build major new energy efficient data centre in the Netherlands

27 Apr 2012

Colt announces site for its 20th data centre to meet increasing demand for modular data centres

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced its first Modular Data Centre deployment in the Netherlands on a 39,000m² site. Colt will initially deploy 2,000m² of data centre space at the site, before increasing its capacity to 20 halls over 10,000m². With a significant anchor tenant already secured, Colt expects to commence operations at the new carrier neutral data centre in early 2013.

News Emerson Network Power is Recognised as a Dominant Supplier in Data Centre Infrastructure Management

26 Apr 2012

Independent research firm lists Emerson’s Trellis™ platform as a primary product offering in data centre infrastructure management solutions report

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, has been recognised as a dominant supplier in data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) by Forrester Research Inc., an independent research firm that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

News Keysource recognised by Uptime Institute's 2012 GEIT Awards

24 Apr 2012

Keysource and the University of Leicester have been recognised by the Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards. They were joint finalists in the Facility Retrofit category for the design and build of a high-efficiency data centre capable of supporting the high densities associated with High Performance Computing (HPC) to host specialist IT services for researchers.

Videos eBay Drives Down Transaction Costs with Dell Data Center Solutions

23 Apr 2012

eBay's Dean Nelson talks about their focus on ultra-efficiency, to get max compute power for lowest wattage for best TCO with Project Mercury.

News City Lifeline scraps brown electricity in favour of 100 per cent green IT

20 Apr 2012

Central London colocation data centre City Lifeline is overhauling its electricity policy in order to run on 100 per cent green electricity by July 2012. The move marks the company’s latest milestone in the quest to become one of London’s most environmentally friendly data centres.

News Racktivity announces first “full feature” DC power sensor

18 Apr 2012

The DC²Sensor completes Racktivity’s power monitoring and management solution targeted at telecommunication, broadband, wireless and broadcast service providers

Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation energy and environment management solutions for data centers, has launched theDC²Sensor, a DC power monitoring solution designed to address the needs of telecommunication, broadband, wireless and broadcast service providers.

Videos Chico's Customer Testimonial

17 Apr 2012

Learn how Schneider Electric's modular data center solution is helping Chico's data center be more business-wise and future-driven.

News Flexiant to Join Oracle, HP Technical Consulting and Colt Technology Services to Discuss Data Centre Expansion Options

16 Apr 2012

Tony Lucas panellist for “Expansion Options: Comparing Modular/Cloud/Convert/New/Expand Old” at IMN European Data Centres Forum on April 24-25, 2012

Tony Lucas, Founder of Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services, will join Colt Technology Services, Oracle and HP Technical Consulting to discuss data centre expansion options at IMN's upcomingEuropean Data Centres Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development on April 24-25, 2012 in London, UK.

News Emerson Network Power hosts energy theatre at Datacentres2012

04 Apr 2012

The organisers of Datacentres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) Europe’s premier content led event for datacentre and cloud users and operators, have announced that Emerson Network Power is acting as Diamond sponsor and host of the Energy Theatre. The event takes place 23-24 May 2012 at the Acropolis Convention centre in Nice, France.

News New online tool measures progress of “green” data centres

03 Apr 2012

The Green Grid launches free self-assessment tool for benchmarking against best practices and industry peers

Data centre operators can now measure their progress towards best practice in efficiency, sustainability and reducing resource consumption, thanks to a new online tool from The Green Grid - the open industry consortium dedicated to improving the resource efficiency of datacentres and business IT.

News Emerson Network Power Launches Innovation Partnership Program in Europe

02 Apr 2012

Emerson combines EMEA Avocent and Liebert programs to expand opportunities for partners

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the expanded Emerson Network Power Innovation Partnership Program for EMEA. It combines solutions from Emerson’s Avocent, Liebert and Knürr brands into an integrated program that enables Information Technology (IT) distributors and resellers to address the key customer challenges in the data centre while maximising their revenue and opportunity potential. The EMEA program builds on the success of the North American version of the Innovation Partnership Program which was launched in March 2011.

News Large firms can shine the light on “hidden” computer room running costs with new CFD modelling gadget

15 Mar 2012

New modelling software shows data centre operations down to individual computer servers and averts costly diagnostics reports

Large UK companies can start to gain a proper understanding of one of the key cost factors affecting their main computing rooms or data centres, with the arrival of a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool that models these facilities’ infrastructure and internal operating environments down to an individual computer server or the last square metre of a building.

News Olympics pose power conundrum for businesses

12 Mar 2012

Companies move away from London as concerns of a power squeeze loom

As the countdown to the Olympics draws ever nearer to the opening ceremony, businesses are moving with haste to safeguard their IT provisions to minimise disruption.

News nlyte research reveals businesses could grind to a halt thanks to capacity & power needs in the data centre

12 Mar 2012

nlyte Software today announced the results of its annual data centre trends research, which surveyed 100 IT professionals at the recent Data Centre World Conference and Expo (Olympia, London: 29th February – 1st March) about the state of their organisation’s data centre estate.  The findings revealed that, for the second year running, capacity concerns and the onus on cutting IT operational costs such as power and cooling, continue to dominate IT professionals’ agendas, as overarching corporate IT strategies fail to support the data centre’s needs. 

News The Green Grid announces new material to advance data centre sustainability and productivity

08 Mar 2012

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5^th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid introduced new materials today at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data centre, business and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate, network with peers and receive these new research papers, survey results and measurement tools. These tools will provide a roadmap towards increased resource efficiency and productivity in business computing.

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08 Mar 2012

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5^th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid introduced new materials today at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data centre, business and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate, network with peers and receive these new research papers, survey results and measurement tools. These tools will provide a roadmap towards increased resource efficiency and productivity in business computing.

News European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) to launch at DataCentres 2012

06 Mar 2012

The newly formed EUDCA to exhibit at the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry, where they will also be welcoming new members.

Data Centres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) to be held in Nice on the 23rd and 24th of May has been selected as the event to formally launch the new European Data Centre Associationbecause of its regional audience and because of its reputation as the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry. The European Data Centre Association will exhibit at the event, and welcomes new members to meet there.

News Iceotope's launch marks new generation in liquid cooling for servers

06 Mar 2012

Iceotope’s innovative solution tackles the energy costs and environmental footprint associated with data centre cooling

Iceotope, the producer of the first truly scalable data centre ready integrated cooling and compute solution, is today launching at CeBIT.  This innovative approach to tackling energy costs and environmental footprints, combines industry standard ICT with next generation liquid cooling to deliver 24/7 free cooling for ICT, anywhere on the planet.  This results in saving 97% of the energy cost of cooling and more than 75% of the mechanical costs.

News CBI calls to abolish CRC - nlyte Software co-founder comments

27 Feb 2012

Last week, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called on the chancellor George Osborne to scrap the much-hyped Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), due to its inability to ‘deliver an effective and proportionate mix of financial, reputational and reporting drivers’. 

News The Cannon Technologies T4 Events Series Helps To Build Better Data Centres

27 Feb 2012

Because the data centre is at the heart of business operations, the roll call of stakeholders has grown, and now regularly includes C-level executives and Business Managers. To help organisations seeking to create, replace or improve their data centre infrastructure, Cannon Technologies is launching the Cannon T4 Event series at Data Centre World 2012. The series is firmly targeted at the growing diversity of disciplines involved in making critical data centre decisions, concerning amongst other things, cooling, power and security.

Videos Monitor Data Center Infrastructure with StruxureWare Central

23 Feb 2012

A look at the latest features of the industry's leading data center infrastructure device monitoring software, StruxureWare Central.

News Racktivity launches new version of its innovative Data Center Performance Management system at Data Centre World London

22 Feb 2012

Stand demonstration shows how Racktivity’s software solution can manage hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system.

Racktivity is demonstrating how its Datacenter Performance Management system manages hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system to help IT professionals and facility managers reduce energy costs while maximizing uptime.  The live showcase of the full range of innovative energy management products will take place during the Data Centre World conference from 29^th February to 1^st March at Olympia in London.

News Daxten brings together the physical power distribution of the Data Centre with wireless power management, metering and monitoring

21 Feb 2012

Daxten, a leading supplier of Data Centre power solutions has announced the introduction of a wireless power management, metering and monitoring system as part of its extensive product portfolio.

News Raritan enhances its leadership position in DCIM with dcTrack 2.6

07 Feb 2012

Intelligent capacity, change and asset management solution helps reduce data center capital and operational expenditures; dcTrack helps premier healthcare provider manage data centers and gain 50 percent in asset tracking efficiency.

Raritan today introduced dcTrack^® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently.  With better visibility of end-to-end connections of data center infrastructure resources, untapped capacity can be discovered and used -- reducing capital and operational expenditures. 

Articles Datacentres set for growth in Central and Eastern Europe

06 Feb 2012

Datacentres have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy. Without datacentres, the emerging Cloud opportunities for agility and IT efficiency and increased competitiveness would not be possible to realise.

News Emerson Network Power UPS Systems to Protect LDeX Colocation Clients

02 Feb 2012

London Data Exchange (LDeX), providers of network independent data centres, have today announced that they will be using Emerson Network Power’s Chloride 80-NET UPS systems to help guarantee power availability to their colocation clients at the LDeX1 data centre in North London.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

Articles The Benefits of a Preventive Maintenance Service Plan for your UPS

23 Jan 2012

Eaton® Corporation, a global leader in power quality, distribution and control, strongly endorses a preventive maintenance service plan to maximize the reliability of an Uninterruptible Power System (UPS). Because companies rely on a UPS to deliver continuous power without any disruption to their business, a maintenance plan is a critical component to ensuring that a UPS minimizes the risks of downtime and performs as expected.

News Amazon to save at least 10% on Data Center Electricity Costs

20 Jan 2012

Energy costs of cloud data centers like those of Amazon can easily be reduced by up to 10% through a simple but powerful synergetic data center and cloud management method, saving up to over US$ 1 million per year for any 10 MegaWatt consuming facility. Following recent research findings from the US based institute IDC (“data storage on a global scale is projected to multiply by a factor 50 in the coming decade”), potential savings will add up to 10’s of millions per year for the largest global data providers.

Articles A difficult diesel generator system

16 Jan 2012

The performance requirements for data centres and for colocation are increasing all the time. Ten years ago, the fact that a data centre had a backup generator and could generate mains power when the mains failed was enough. Today it isn’t. Customers demand more, and new data centres being built are at N+1 – that is they not only have a backup generator, but they have another backup generator in case the first one fails to start, or there is a mains failure when one is being serviced. The introduction of Tier Levels from US-based organisations mandates at least two generator sets for the facility to be at Tier 3 level, either of which can support the entire facility electronic load. Customers in the market want such levels of performance and are increasingly asking for them and asking technical questions about the level of redundancy and resilience that a facility has. Facilities which cannot provide and demonstrate the necessary levels lose credibility and business and get left behind by the market.

News Interxion Passes 50% Milestone for Provision of Data Centre Power from Renewable Energy Sources

12 Jan 2012

Interxion today announced that, as of this month, over half of the power it provides for customers in its data centres is from solar, wind, geothermic, tidal or hydro energy sources. Power from renewable energy sources is available to customers across the company’s 11-country European footprint, and Interxion’s operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK are 100% powered by renewable energy sources.

Videos Tour of Zonatherm's Data Center with Emerson Network Power's Smart Solutions

10 Jan 2012

This is a showcase example of a small-to-midsize data center infrastructure, optimized for efficiency, capacity and availability. It is used both to run the Zonatherm business, and for Zonatherm's Data Center Infrastructure Specialists to host customer meetings and demonstrations, promoting their sales and service capabilities; and educating IT and data center managers, consulting engineers, and resellers of Emerson Network Power solutions.

News Unite Launches Professional ‘out of the box’ Rack Management Solution

06 Jan 2012

Easy to install, per rack solution for real-time monitoring and management of data centre power consumption

Data centre power and energy management specialist, Unite Technologies, has launched a new ‘out of the box’ professional rack management solution for legacy and new build data centres. The RackMS is easy to install and deployed on a per rack basis to enable highly cost-effective real-time monitoring, alerting and management of data centre power usage.

News Eaton Delivers Secure Power for Sentrum

09 Dec 2011

Energy-efficient Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) from Eaton’s Power Quality division have been selected by Sentrum, a leading specialist in data centre solutions, as the secure power source for critical applications in its principal UK data centres. A total of 137 Eaton UPS systems are currently installed within Sentrum’s portfolio of data centres and some idea of the scale of these installations can be gained by noting that, between them, they use 25,000 batteries with a total weight in excess of 830 tonnes.

Videos The data centre fitness test

29 Nov 2011

Jeremy Wallis, Systems Engineering Director for the UK and Ireland at NetApp, explains the data centre fitness test

News nlyte Software makes it easy to manage large scale data center projects with nlyte 6.2

28 Nov 2011

Award-winning DCIM suite now incorporates the industry’s first enterprise-class project lifecycle management capabilities

nlyte Software, the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, today launched nlyte 6.2, the first DCIM solution to provide large scale data center project lifecycle management.

News Daxten launches a new Starline Track Busbar at Datacenter Dynamics London - 30th Nov-1st Dec

22 Nov 2011

New 250 and 800Amp power supply via track for mission critical data centre environments

With immediate effect Daxten, a leading supplier of solutions for cooling optimisation and power infrastructure, offers the new track-based 250 and 800 Amp UEC STARLINE power distribution systems for Data Centres, Server Rooms and R&D testing Labs. These environments require a reliable power infrastructure with the ability to make quick reconfigurations to the power supply. 

News Raritan Announces Power IQ Software with Smart Rack Views and Quick Charts for Getting and Sharing Key Data Center Energy Information Easily

22 Nov 2011

Power IQ also streamlines energy information sharing with Raritan's DCIM software

As part of Raritan's Smart Rack initiative to help data centers improve operations and energy efficiency by adding intelligence throughout data center racks, the company today introduced Power IQ® 3.1 Energy Management Software with Smart Rack Views and Quick Charts.  These new features provide one-click access to key energy and operations information in a rack  -- including power, cooling, humidity, airflow, and events -- and, the ability to further drill down to detailed information on rack assets, such as PDUs, IT devices, and breakers.

Articles Outlook for 2012 - Data centre predictions

21 Nov 2011

Chris Smith, sales and marketing director, on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of infrastructure and utility services, has identified the following key trends in the data centre industry for 2012, including new data centre monitoring tools, next stage equipment guidelines and some potential game-changing innovations by manufacturers and IT vendors.

Articles Benefits of assembly-line techniques for data centres revealed in new Green Grid report

15 Nov 2011

Modular data centers offer cost savings and increased energy efficiency

Manufacturing techniques that are extensively applied in other industries are now rapidly maturing for the building and deployment of data centres, according to a new report from The Green Grid, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems. The Green Grid’s white paper, “Deploying and Using Containerized/Modular Data Centre Facilities,” reveals that pre-engineered and prefabricated data centres demonstrate technical and business value when properly applied.

Articles SURVEY RESULTS: Data Center Economizer Use

31 Oct 2011

In early 2011, The Green Grid (TGG)—an international, non-profit consortium working to enhance data center resource efficiency—conducted a survey to learn more about current economizer awareness, perceptions, and use in the data center industry. The survey’s results indicate that economizers are well-known throughout the data center industry and that adoption is becoming fairly widespread.

News Emerson Network Power Improves System Availability in National Bank of Abu Dhabi’s Data Centers by 20 Percent

26 Oct 2011

Collaboration significantly increases the lifespan of the bank’s data center systems

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced its market-leading Avocent infrastructure management technologies have delivered 20 percent greater system availability to the National Bank of Abu Dhabi’s (NBAD) data centers. NBAD is the number one bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Articles National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) Investing in Greater Data Center Performance and Control

26 Oct 2011

Ranked as one of the top 50 safest banks in the world and the best bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has more than 100 branches and more than 450 ATMs in the UAE. The NBAD overseas network stretches across Hong Kong, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles Is the Data Centre facing extinction?

20 Oct 2011

An industry viewpoint from Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline

Enterprise data centres, government data centres, commercial data centres and colocation houses have seen a massive expansion over the last ten years or so. Every organisation in the world uses more computing power today than it did five years ago and five years ago used more than it did ten years ago.  Even small children who can barely walk use more computing power.  Is there any end?  And how can the world cope with the space and electrical power that all this computing needs?

News Agile Power Management for Everyday Offices to Virtualised Tier 4 Data Centres

18 Oct 2011

Eaton has launched a major update to its intuitive and lightweight power management software, Intelligent Power® Software. Version 1.20 supports both redundant power supplies and parallel uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, making it an excellent tool for comprehensive monitoring and management of power device networks in a variety of today’s IT environments – ranging from everyday offices to the most critical, virtualised Tier 4 data centres.

Articles Data Centre Business Continuity

17 Oct 2011

How is the choice of data centre, and data centre connections, key to supporting mission-critical applications – and what should you look for when choosing? Bob Griffiths, MD of Next Connex explains.

According to research from the Business Continuity Institute, approximately 20% of companies suffer a major disaster or disruption every five years, including damage caused by natural disasters, fires, IT system failures and power cuts. Of these companies, over three-quarters don’t survive the disaster. Such disruptions cost UK firms almost £4bn each year, and studies show that the average business suffers up to 11 virus attacks on a daily basis.

News PEER 1 Hosting opens doors to world-class data centre

17 Oct 2011

Company launches state-of-the-art green data centre in Portsmouth

PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, today opens its new 5,372m² green data centre in Portsmouth. The facility in Langstone Technology Park, Portsmouth offers businesses across London and the South East scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation services in one of the greenest data centres in the country.

Videos StruxureWare™ for Data Centers: Overview

13 Oct 2011

The role of the Data Center Manager is more critical than ever. From virtualization, to cloud computing and high density, your data center means business to your company. Learn how the StruxureWare™ can help enable successful management and operations of your data center today

News Datapipe Partners with Verne Global to Deliver Green Cloud from Iceland

06 Oct 2011

Icelandic Data Centre will enhance Datapipe’s ongoing sustainability initiatives

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, today announced that Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, plans to deliver carbon neutral managed IT solutions, including a green cloud and disaster recovery, upon completion of Verne Global’s purpose-built Icelandic data centre facility.

News Verne Global Opens World's First Dual-Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre

06 Oct 2011

Verne Global Opens World’s First Dual-Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre

Icelandic campus provides a renewable energy-based colocation and build-to-suit data centre option for US and European companies and provides well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York.

News Green Grid to chair EMEA lectures on Energy Efficiency and maturity models within the Data Centre sector

06 Oct 2011

On Thursday 13th October The Green Grid will be hosting the last of its 2011 European technical forums between 9:00AM and 2:15PM at the Fujitsu Offices near Hayes in London.

News Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative enters expansion phase

04 Oct 2011

Looking for 40 talented individuals to help build Green IT technologies

The Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative (GUCI), a group of interlinked technologies that offers a complete, end to end Green IT ecosystem, has launched a second phase of intense expansion.

News UK Managed IT Services firm, Lumison, continues growth strategy with acquisition of DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd

04 Oct 2011

Acquisition brings Lumison’s combined turnover to £27 million, 320% growth since 2008 and EBITDA of £9m.

Lumison has today strengthened its position in the IT Managed Services sector by acquiring DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd, a Reading-based managed hosting and colocation provider. The acquisition brings Lumison’s combined turnover to £27.5million, and continues its business expansion strategy, which has seen the company’s revenues grow from £6.4m to £27.5m over the last three years.

Articles NGD Europe – As green as the Welsh Valleys

04 Oct 2011

A multi-million pound project in South Wales has transformed a former 750,000 sq ft semiconductor plant into Europe’s largest data centre. Opened last year NGD Europe offers multiple tenants scalable, custom built data halls with the power resources to match, all from one supersize environmentally-friendly tier 3+ facility. Drawing power from 100 per cent renewable energy sources, there has been from the outset a strong emphasis on energy efficiency and environmental credentials.

Next generation data centres not only have to tick all the boxes on space, security, power and connectivity but also guarantee far superior environmental performance than their predecessors. With data centres forecast to consume globally almost 2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020 (Greenpeace) and in the face of an increasingly onerous regulatory landscape, operators are under pressure to deliver optimised energy environments to satisfy compliance as well as more demanding environmental expectations from customers.

Articles Taking a Bird’s Eye View of Energy in the Computer room and Data Centre

04 Oct 2011

Simon Terry, Chief Executive of Unite Technologies, provides food for thought on best practice in reducing and optimising data centre energy consumption

Energy and FM professionals are well aware that both legacy and new build computer room and data centre operations bring with them significant energy management challenges. Rising energy costs and limited supply means data centres are coming under increased pressure to become more energy efficient, especially in light of the introduction of the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. 

Videos Building Europe's Largest Data Centre by Schneider Electric

03 Oct 2011

Global energy management specialist Schneider Electric has developed a dedicated solution for Next Generation Data Limited, the owners of NGD Europe, to specify and install all the infrastructure equipment for the new mega data centre.

Articles Making the case for a greener data centre

28 Sep 2011

Data centres are widely known for consuming a lot of energy. According to some estimates, almost two per cent of the nation’s electricity is used to power computers and telecoms equipment, most of it in specialised data centres. One data centre facility can use up to 50 times as much power as the equivalent in office spaceⁱ.However, operators have started driving up their efficiencies and driving down their costs and showing that they’re making their buildings more efficient and green.

iGovernment Energy Plans Could Prompt Data Centre Exodus – eWeek Europe, 3 August 2010

News Eaton Presents Power For The Cloud Eaton Power Quality

28 Sep 2011

At DatacenterDynamics Eaton Power Quality is putting the emphasis firmly on the provision of efficient, cost-effective and versatile power solutions to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s data centres. In support of this, the company is delivering a paper describing how the cloud and virtualization are changing the way data centres are powered, and is also exhibiting a wide range of innovative equipment, including its 9395 UPSs, Wright Line rack-based heat management systems, BladeUPS products and enclosure-based power distribution units (ePDUs).

News Colt manufactures and ships 500m2 data centre to Iceland

27 Sep 2011

Verne Global opens for business enabled by Colt’s Modular Data Centre

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and operator, has selected Colt’s Modular Data Centre for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. This is the world's first mission critical data centre with zero-emissions to be manufactured and constructed in less than four months.

Videos Knürr Power Distribution Systems

26 Sep 2011

Knürr Power Distribution Systems

News Server Technology's Firmware 6.1 Boasts Data Center Power Monitoring, User-Friendly Interface

26 Sep 2011

Data center power monitoring company Server Technology is adding another accomplishment to its resume as the company has unveiled new firmware 6.1, a release that is unlike anything currently out there, according to company officials.

Videos Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute Project Announce Collaboration @ IDF2011

23 Sep 2011

The Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute project announce collaborative efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing standards at the Intel Developer Forum 2011.

Videos RF Code - Better in the Data Center

19 Sep 2011

We're often asked why 433MHz is the ideal frequency to use for tracking assets in the data center—down to the rack level. Listen as Chris Gaskins, RF Code VP of Product Development, explains how the combination of 433MHz, our transmission protocol and inventive tag design all combine to provide the most effective approach to tracking and managing data center assets.

News Daxten becomes value added reseller for mobile micro-data centres from Elliptical Mobile Solutions

13 Sep 2011

Daxten extends its portfolio with mobile micro-modular data centres from Elliptical Mobile Solutions

Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), the innovative vendor and market leader for micro-modular data centres, today announced it has signed a Sales Representation and Reseller agreement with UK-based Daxten for the European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) markets. 

Videos Geist Mfg - Impressive Lead Times

12 Sep 2011

From in-house chassis production to an on-site UL testing lab, Geists cohesive abilities result in the lowest lead times in the PDU industry. Depending on the specs of your configuration, your PDU can be available for shipment in as little as 3 days. This applies not only to basic power distribution units, but also to our top end IP based power and environmental monitoring products. Geist makes what you want, when you want it, without the wait.

Articles nlyte Express Edition Solution Brief

08 Sep 2011

The nlyte data center infrastructure management (DCIM) suite provides data center professionals with the predictive intelligence and management controls they need to reduce operational risks and achieve smarter, more efficient and highly available data centers. The nlyte Express Edition is our entry level solution designed to get companies quickly started with DCIM. The nlyte Express Edition takes the risk out of converting from manual processes and spreadsheets by providing a cost-effective approach to implementing DCIM.

News nlyte Software Launches nlyte Express

08 Sep 2011

Leading independent DCIM provider set to democratise DCIM with new subscription-based solution

nlyte Software, the data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data centre professionals for data centre professionals,today announced the availability of nlyte Express Edition, an entry-level, DCIM solution designed to quickly and easily migrate any size of company away from using disaggregated desktop technologies such as Microsoft Excel and Visio towards an integrated DCIM software product that fully manages their physical data centre infrastructure.

News Data and Power Solutions becomes Geist Europe

07 Sep 2011

Leading UK 19” rack power manufacturer Data and Power Solutions has announced a change of trading name to Geist Europe.

Geist Manufacturing, which has its headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, purchased a 50% stake in UK-based Data and Power Solutions in July 2010 and the decision has now been taken to develop the Geist Europe brand in line with global marketing objectives.

News Raritan Introduces First-of-its-Kind Intelligent Asset Tags and Sensors to Keep Track of Data Center Servers and Supporting IT Infrastructure

06 Sep 2011

Accurate, automated, real-time inventory; helps data centers better understand exactly what they have and where it’s located

Raritan (Raritan.co.uk) today announced the general availability of the first intelligent Asset Management Tag and Sensor solution for improving data center asset management by providing accurate, real-time information on all IT assets and their locations.

News Data center solution vendor Raritan joins Green IT Amsterdam

01 Sep 2011

Brings unique energy management skills and insights to consortium

Raritan (Raritan.nl) today joined the consortium Green IT Amsterdam Region, which is  focused at creating a "Green Collar Economy". An industry pioneer since 1985, Raritan offers ICT and facility departments innovative solutions to improve energy management efficiency, improve data center productivity and enhance IT infrastructure operations.

News Interxion’s City of London Data Centre is Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

01 Sep 2011

Interxion today announced that its London data centre has taken another step forward in reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100% renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy.

Videos Three Steps for CIOs to Take Today to Drive the Data Center Forward Into the Future

26 Aug 2011

How do you ensure that your decisions will address your challenges?

News 34 New Products Join the Server Technology CDU Line; 220 so far in 2011

15 Aug 2011

Customer Driven Innovation is key to innovation in data center power distribution unit marketplace

Server Technology announced today the release of over 200 new data center products this year, reflecting the need for custom and unique data center power innovation and technology.   For over 25 years, Server Technology has been recognized as the global leader of innovative, intelligent power distribution products and solutions for data centers, telecommunications operations and branch offices.

Articles Growth in data centre electricity use - comment from Interxion

01 Aug 2011

“I wasn’t surprised by the estimate in today’s report that in 2010, data centres accounted for between 1.1% and 1.5% of the world's total energy consumption, as ICT becomes pervasive in delivering products and services to increasing number of people across the globe.  We know that in order to reduce the environmental impact of IT, the green data centre needs to be at the heart of the whole movement towards sustainable computing. Date centre operators need to work with local and international government bodies, industry associations like the European Commission, the UKs Carbon Reduction Commitment and The Green Grid to better  understand the role they can play in reducing the carbon footprint associated with their ICT infrastructure.

Articles Growth in Data Center electricity use 2005 to 2010

01 Aug 2011

This study assesses growth in data center electricity use from 2005 to 2010 for the US and the world. It uses data and methods similar to earlier analyses to create a consistent time series of data center electricity use.

News Raritan Introduces New Family of Intelligent Rack PDUs for Managing Data Center Energy Costs and Server Uptime

14 Jul 2011

Smart Racks, True kWh Energy Metering and Secure Outlet-level Switching with New PX-2000 Series

With the introduction of the PX-2000, Raritan (Raritan.co.uk) today expanded the industry's largest portfolio of intelligent rack power distribution units (iPDUs) that make server racks a lot smarter.  Its built-in intelligence provides real-time monitoring of data center energy and loads, as well as environmental conditions when using optional plug-in sensors.

Videos Knurr SamrtAisle

05 Jul 2011

Rupert Reiter introduces the Knurr SmartAisle.

Articles Scottish and Southern Energy - Case study

01 Jul 2011

Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), headquartered in Perth Scotland is one of the largest energy companies in the UK. With over 19,000 employees, it is involved in: the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity; the storage, distribution and supply of gas; electrical and utility contracting and other energy services; and telecoms. SSE supplies electricity and gas to over nine million customers within the UK’s competitive energy market making it the second largest supplier of energy in the UK.

News Server Technology Introduces New Product Family, Smart POPS (TM) (Per Outlet Power Sensing) CDUs(TM) , for Data Center Power Management

30 Jun 2011

Customer demand leads to new product family with individual device power monitoring with secure 'always-on' outlet status

Server Technology, Inc. has announced the release of the Smart POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) CDU product family.

Videos Command Centre Secure Gateway

29 Jun 2011

A short promotional video of Raritan's Command Centre Secure Gateway.

News Server Technology Launches Next Generation Sentry Power Manager 5.0 Rack-Level Data Center Power Management Solution

29 Jun 2011

New user interface combines with feature-rich functionality to help manage mission critical operations more efficiently and more cost effectively

Server Technology Inc., the global leader for Cabinet Power Distribution Unit and Power Measurement and Monitoring Solutions, today launched a significant update to the Sentry Power Manager (SPM) solution, version 5.0. 

News Raritan's Energy and Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions Receive Multiple Industry Awards

23 Jun 2011

Raritan today announced that its data center management solutions have received multiple awards recently from industry organizations around the globe.  Raritan's solutions that help data centers better manage and utilize resources were selected for the innovative ways they solve data center energy issues -- such as reducing energy waste, finding capacity, and more-efficient ways to add servers and make changes.

Articles eBay - Case Study

23 Jun 2011

Real-Time Energy Optimization and Best Practices In a Mission-Critical Data Center

As one of the world’s largest Internet commerce platforms, eBay demands extreme data center reliability; any downtime would impact transactions worth more than $2,000 a second. Thus its global data center team must excel simultaneously in delivering uptime and flexibility, while keeping costs down – a truly complex challenge, requiring constant innovation to be successful.

Articles Thermal Optimisation in the Data Centre

16 Jun 2011

Best Practices for achieving optimal cooling performance and significant energy savings in your data centre

Data centres contribute significantly to world-wide energy consumption. Analysts from IDC and Gartner state that two percent of total energy consumed worldwide is caused by data centres. This share is expected to double within the next five years. The increase in CO₂ emissions will have a profound impact on the costs for companies, their data centres, and the ecological and environmental communities at large. 

News GP Bullhound advises 4energy, the leading provider of low energy cooling solutions for base stations, equipment rooms and data centres

14 Jun 2011

GP Bullhound, the technology investment bank, has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to 4energy Ltd on the funding round by Environmental Technologies Fund (‘ETF’). 4energy's existing investors include Carbon Trust Investments Limited and Catapult Growth Fund. The investment is to be used to support the Company in its rapid international expansion.

News NextiraOne joins The Green Grid

13 Jun 2011

Membership adds value to Data Centre design and build solutions and services

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, today announced its membership in The Green Grid Association. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing resource efficiency in Data Centres. NextiraOne will become a General Member of The Green Grid giving the company access to the organisation’s extensive technical resources and best practice information and sharing.

News Raritan's Data Center Energy Management Software Gets a New Dashboard with Forecasting Tools and Gauges to Track and Visualize Key Energy Metrics

31 May 2011

New real-time power gauge finds stranded capacity

Raritan today unveiled a new configurable dashboard with new tools and gauges for Power IQ® energy management software, so that data center managers can easily see information most important to them -- whether it’s energy usage information of a specific server rack, temperature readings from the cold aisle, or a forecast on how much energy is required to support operations in data centers across the world. 

News Can increasing the environmental temperature in data centres up to 27°C to save energy risk network switch failures and lost packets?

30 May 2011

Daxten presents a passive cooling solution for network equipment with side air intakes.

Since 2008 The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air‐Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) expanded their recommended environmental envelope temperature range for IT equipment intake between 18 and 27 degrees Celsius to save energy and add additional cooling options in data centres. Any additional degree Celsius above the starting temperature reduces cooling unit loads by approximately three percent. This translates directly to the possible energy savings. Improving cooling efficiency of the servers is a source of dramatic energy consumption reduction with relatively little effort. There is a catch – due to increasing supply air temperatures the number of failures and packet losses from network switches and routers is significantly raised. The increased packet loss is caused when best practices like cold aisle containment, blanking panels and rack side baffles are implemented. Servers and other network equipment that pulls air from the front of the rack do not have problems as they pull air from the cold aisle. Network switches and routers that pull air from the side are pulling heated exhaust air from the servers, which is often in excess of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius. These devices have no way to access the cool air from the cold aisle and tend to overhead causing packet loss and communication failures. To solve this problem, Daxten, a leading provider of data centre cooling optimisation solutions, extends its portfolio with the SwitchAirBox.

Articles Efficiency Gains with 480V/277V Power at the Cabinet Level

25 May 2011

In February 2009, the Data Center Pulse Group, along with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, began calling for new data center implementations in North America to incorporate support for a 480V/277V power distribution topology.1 They implored the makers of power supplies and servers to begin extending the operating range of their gear from a high end of 240V to a 277V nominal input. The driving impetus for recommending 277V power to the rack was two-fold – improved efficiencies and lower costs.

Videos New Trends in Data Center Cooling Technology

25 May 2011

Scott Good, world renowned data center construction expert from GkkWorks:http://www.gkkworks.com/ explains the benefits of using Elliptical Mobile Solutions' Micro-Modular Data Center (MMDC) offerings to dramatically reduce startup costs, operating expenses, space and electrical waste.

News Danish IT consultancy selects nlyte Software for seamless data centre migration & enhanced performance

23 May 2011

NNIT swaps ‘old school’ spreadsheets & Visio for the nlyte DCIM suite

nlyte Software, a leading provider of performance-based solutions for Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM), today announced that NNIT, one of Denmark’s leading IT consultancies, has selected the nlyte DCIM solution to help it migrate its existing equipment to a brand new data centre facility, and replace the organisation’s current spreadsheet and Visio management tools to ensure increased performance and compliance with green legislation within its data centre environment.

Videos Emerson Network Power's Strategic Partnership with Panduit Drives Efficiency

18 May 2011

Jeff Paliga, director of global solutions marketing for Panduit, discusses the company's strategic partnership with Emerson Network Power and how the companies are working together to help data center managers tackle complexities created by consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing

Videos SGI ICE Cube® Air Modular Data Center

12 May 2011

SGI® ICE® Cube Air offers a complete solution, starting at $99,000 and operational in hours. The new ICE Cube Air MDC expands in standard increments out to 80 racks/97,920 cores/143.36 PB. With highly efficient fans, along with an innovative three-stage evaporative cooling system, ICE Cube Air runs with air and evaporative cooling, achieving a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of less than 1.06. Supplemental direct expansion (DX), or chilled water cooling coils, provides an optional cooling system for customers deploying in extreme environments. Using one percent of the water needed by standard water-chilled containers and requiring a water flow of only two gallons per minute, ICE Cube Air can get its water from almost any clean source, including a garden hose. www.sgi.com/icecubeair.

News Raritan’s dcTrack Software Wins Network Computing's 'New Product of the Year' Award

28 Apr 2011

Recognized for powerful asset and change management capabilities for tracking data center IT systems, facilities, and networking assets and their interrelationships

Raritan today announced its dcTrack™ data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software has won "New Product of the Year" award from Network Computing magazine in London.  It also collected the runner-up award in the "Data Centre Product of the Year" category. 

Videos APC DCIM Solutions Demo at Cisco Live in London

15 Apr 2011

Eddie Desouza, data center software consultant for APC by Schneider Electric, introduces the new InfraStruxure Operations Module Suite at Cisco Live in London, which enables data center managers to manager, monitor and control costs through one interface.

News IT Infrastructure Unprepared for Future

14 Apr 2011

The UK's existing IT infrastructure isn't prepared to meet the demands of an "always-on" and environmentally-aware society, according to a panel of sustainable IT gurus.

News nlyte partners with RFID Global to simplify data centre asset management

12 Apr 2011

nlyte Software integrates RFID technology into data centre infrastructure management solution for real time, end-to-end planning

nlyte Software today announced its partnership with RFID Global Solution, Inc., a real-time asset visibility software provider, which will enable organisations to deploy an integrated RFID solution to track and manage assets within the data centre.  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology enables the physical and theoretical infrastructure of a data centre to be completely in sync, giving organisations extensive control throughout their data centre environment.

Videos Emerson Network Power Innovative Solutions: Introducing the Liebert APM

12 Apr 2011

During a recent interview, David Sonner, Senior Director Product Marketing, Liebert AC Power Emerson Network Power, spoke about the new Liebert APM UPS. The row-based UPS can help companies maintain business continuity and keep pace with capacity needs. 

Videos Gear that keeps you safe

06 Apr 2011

The seventh installment of Eaton's Gear TV features "gear that keeps you safe". Safety for your switchgear. Safety for your upstream and downstream electrical equipment. And, above all, safety for your Operating and Maintenance personnel.

News Green Grid Endorses European Data Centre Sustainability Award

05 Apr 2011

The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2^nd in London

News RF Code Announces Wire-Free Air Pressure Sensor

31 Mar 2011

Eliminating Wires Means Deployment Flexibility to Monitor Air Pressure Anywhere in the Data Center

At Data Center World in Las Vegas, RF Code (Booth #409) announced a new wire-free air pressure sensor that reports differential air pressure readings. Air pressure is a key monitoring metric used to optimize air flow and provide insights into the overall thermal characteristics in a data center.

News New Product Launch at DCW: Daxten presents its new CoolControl Containment system for data centres

31 Mar 2011

Inexpensive and highly flexible, soft or solid, hot and cold-aisle-containment with caging capabilities

Daxten, a leading provider of data centre cooling optimisation solutions, enhanced its CoolControl Curtain system to be a complete hybrid and modular containment solution - CoolControl Containment. This solution enables data centre and facility managers to contain their cold and/or hot aisles in either a soft or solid structure. The skeletal structure for this is a solid aluminium profile that can be installed as a self-supporting frame either under the ceiling, along walls or over cabinets in server rooms or data centres. The aluminium profiles allow for using soft, inert, antistatic and self-extinguishing curtains or solid synthetic, glass and fibre panels or a combination of the both to contain any rack row in the hot and/or cold aisle.

News Racktivity Announces EnergySwitch ES1008 Next Generation Power Distribution Unit for Data Centers

16 Mar 2011

Enables market’s most advanced real-time metering, switching and analysis capabilities

Racktivity has announced the availability of its new next generation EnergySwitch^TM ES1008 Power Distribution Unit (PDU) solution for energy and environmental management within data centers. Racktivity’s ES1008 gives data center professionals real-time, true RMS measurement capability, predictive analysis and individual power-port level switching capability, all at the industry’s lowest energy consumption available in a PDU device.

News RF Code Signs ITM Communications as First UK Partner

16 Mar 2011

Specialist in Energy Efficient ICT Infrastructure becomes First UK partner for Innovative Wire-free Environmental Monitoring and Asset Management to Support Green Agenda and Cloud Computing

RF Code, a leading provider of active IT asset management and wire-free environmental monitoring solutions, has announced ITM Communications Ltd as its first certified partner. This announcement follows the February launch of the RF Code European Channel Program. Bringing a depth of industry knowledge to the field of energy efficient ICT design, implementation and support, ITM has completed both sales and technical training on RF Code solutions.

News nlyte's partnership with Future Facilities eliminates data centre hot spots; optimises cooling capacity

10 Mar 2011

Integrated solution eliminates data centre ‘hot spots’ and optimises cooling capacity 

nlyte Software announced today that it has expanded its DCIM solution through a partnership with Future Facilities, who are leaders in the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software to data centre design and management.  Accomplished through deep technical integration, as well as through coordinated marketing, sales and services activities, the joint offering is available immediately.

News Daxten takes the lead with its cooling optimisation solutions for the Data Centre

28 Feb 2011

Highly rated according to EU Code of Conduct Best Practices for Data Centres:

Daxten’s CoolControl solutions

In November 2008 the Joint Research Commission of the European Union (EU-JRD) started with the initiative for a code of conduct to increase the energy efficiency in the data centre. Today the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre Energy Efficiency stands for a voluntary program that is supported worldwide by manufacturers, service providers, independent experts and data centre operators. Daxten is an endorser of the code and is committed to adhering to and sharing the code’s contents across the IT industry by motivating users to realise higher levels of energy and cost efficiency in their data centres. The code (EUCoc) is based on concrete guidelines and best practices that contribute significantly to reducing energy consumption in data centres. To quantify the value for the user, the 2010 edition of the EUCoC best practices comes with a grading system from 1 to 5. The best practices which can be realised cost effectively and offer maximum energy efficiency improvement are graded with 5. The Daxten CoolControl solution range for the optimisation of data centre cooling is top rated with marks between 3 and 5. 

Videos Introduction to Data Center Infrastructure Management

15 Feb 2011

The challenge of managing the complexity of your data center environment can be daunting. Learn about issues impacting the physical layer and ways you can manage them with solutions available today.

News Telehouse Sets a Clear Course to a Low Carbon Future with Carbon Trust Standard

01 Feb 2011

Telehouse today announced that its two London sites have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. Based on a rigorous, independent assessment, the Carbon Trust Standard certifies that organisations have measured, managed and reduced their carbon emissions across their own operations, and are committed to reducing them year-on-year.  Telehouse UK received the award after improving its carbon efficiency by 12 percent, relative to turnover[1]. The award means that Telehouse has joined the group of nearly 500 certified organisations which have already cut carbon emissions by over 3 million tonnes of CO2e.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

Videos Emerson Network Power Liebert Services Capabilities Overview

19 Jan 2011

Liebert Services capabilities overview featuring data center assessments, monitoring and preventive maintenance to prevent outages and maintain power and cooling and connectivity technologies for data centers, telecommunications networks, and other applications.

News Server Technology Launches New High Density ‘Smart Power Monitor’ for Adding Intelligent Power Monitoring to Any Existing Server Cabinet Using 50 or 60 Amps

20 Dec 2010

A Cost Effective Upgrade for Power Distribution Units with No Load Monitoring

Server Technology Inc. has announced the new Smart Power Monitor product for deployment into 50/60Amp, 3-Phase Delta, 208-240V power systems.

News News alert: Firms get the tools to assess data centres’ sustainability – and force better CSR reporting

16 Dec 2010

New standards for assessing environmental impacts will give companies a more practical framework for reporting data centres’ sustainability ahead of tougher company reporting due next year, according to on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of physical IT infrastructure and utility services. 

News Raritan's Intelligent Power Technologies Interoperate with Cisco EnergyWise Platform to Help Organizations Be More “Green”

15 Dec 2010

Monitor and control IT energy consumption throughout the Data Center Rack Space 

Raritan announced today that its intelligent device-level power management solutions are interoperable with Cisco® EnergyWise client technology.  Through this interoperable solution, customers can gain a more comprehensive, complete picture of power consumption within the data center rack space.

News nlyte Software launches Version 6.0 for integrated analytics & intelligent capacity planning in the data centre

06 Dec 2010

nlyte Software today launched nlyte 6.0, a major new advancement of its award-winning data centre performance management suite. (Watch a video here)

Blog The Power Struggle

03 Dec 2010

Gary Hull writes: In Australia the cost of electricity is rising by 10% year-on-year, an expense that can quickly translate to vast sums for large Australian enterprises. In 2009 Gartner found that energy costs would emerge as a company’s highest operating cost, second only to labour, in 70% of all data centre facilities worldwide.

News Raritan Introduces Virtual Appliance Version of CommandCenter Secure Gateway for Centralized, Secure Access and Control of IT Equipment

30 Nov 2010

New Virtual Appliance includes all management features in CommandCenter Secure Gateway 5.0

Raritan announced today a virtual version of its CommandCenter® Secure Gateway (CC-SG) appliance that provides centralized, secure access to IT equipment to help data centers remotely diagnose and resolve IT equipment issues quickly and reduce server management costs. 

Articles Why education is required to win the data centre temperature debate

25 Nov 2010

In 2010, the energy consumption of the data centre industry has continued to climb the political and financial agendas. Tightened budgets mean that companies around the world are looking to reduce energy costs, while the regulatory environment is evolving to a state whereby heavy emitters could be penalised financially.

Articles Do GB consumers & UK businesses understand the real cost of the data carbon footprint?

24 Nov 2010

Survey of 1,000 GB consumers & 100 CIOs/data centre mangers at UK enterprises.  

Research conducted by TNS & Vanson Bourne on behalf of nlyte Software

News Raritan Power IQ® iPhone App for Managing Data Centers Now Available on iTunes® App Store

23 Nov 2010

View energy metrics and power cycle servers when on the go -- 'there's an app for that' 

Raritan today introduced Power IQ^® iPhone app -- the first application available at the Apple iTunes Store that helps data center and lab managers "on the go" quickly view real-time power load (watts and amps) and perform secure remote power control on any server or rack power distribution unit.

Videos Liebert Adaptive Power Witness Test Center

22 Nov 2010

Gary Anderson takes a tour of the Liebert Adaptive Power Witness Test Center and explains what customers can expect when visiting the facility.

News High efficiency UPS solution

17 Nov 2010

High efficiency UPS solution for data & IT applications. 250KVA standalone UPS with AEG PS building block capability up to 1000KVA.

Articles Cabinet Power Monitoring, Management & Control Within the Data Center

05 Nov 2010

Increased cabinet densities combined with reduced power availability and greatly increasing power costs are driving power monitoring and management solutions within the Data Center. Only through power monitoring, management and control can greater efficiencies be achieved with the key being “You cannot improve what you are not measuring.” As groups like The Green Grid advocate continuous power monitoring at the device level, most IT and Infrastructure Managers are struggling with not only making these measurements, but also what to do with the information.

News Data centre cooling direct to the server

28 Oct 2010

Emerson Network Power has introduced the Liebert XDS server cooling system, a breakthrough direct server cooling technology that can provide a flexible, reliable and energy-efficient cooling solution for high-density IT systems.

News Gartner identifies seven major CEO concerns CIOs should address

22 Oct 2010

With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have outlined the seven major concerns from CEOs that CIOs should address.

News Modular cooling for Telehouse

22 Oct 2010

Hitachi Europe has completed delivery of its Refrigerant Natural Circulation (NC) Cooling system as part of its Modular High Density Cooling Solution for Telehouse’s recently opened facility Telehouse LONDON Docklands West, in London, UK.

Articles Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

19 Oct 2010

The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership(TCO) — as well as being the focal point for green IT initiatives.

News Emerson Network Power Unveils Next Generation Data Centre Infrastructure Management Solution

08 Oct 2010

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, has introduced Avocent Data Center Planner, a visual infrastructure planning and management software solution within Emerson Network Power’s strategic framework for data centre optimization.

News Emerson Network Power unveils next generation data center infrastructure management solution

05 Oct 2010

Avocent Data Center Planner (formerly Avocent Mergepoint Infrastructure Explorer) enables companies to more efficiently manage their data centers.

Videos Emerson Network Power & Knürr

01 Oct 2010

Emerson Network Power capabilities overview featuring power racks & enclosures, backup systems, embedded power, precision cooling, and connectivity technologies for data centers, telecommunications networks, and other applications.

Articles Cabling Infrastructure and Green Building Initiatives

23 Sep 2010

In a recent study, Gartner analysts revealed that IT activity accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions, equivalent to the amount produced by the aviation industry. We typically think of emissions as coming from forms of transportation, heavy industry and power generation, but with recent work to address global issues we see that in fact, IT and IT related products can have an impact in several areas.

Videos A Transformer vs. Transformerless UPS Comparison

16 Sep 2010

Alan French of the Liebert Products business of Emerson Network Power uses the white board to address the differences between transformer based UPS topologies and transformerless designs.

Articles Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter

08 Sep 2010

As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs.

Videos HP Intelligent Power Discovery

02 Sep 2010

Overview of HP Intelligent Power Discovery and the HP Intelligent PDU. Intelligent power Discovery automates tacks to reduce human errors that can cause unscheduled downtime.

News Core Consultancy experience strong demand for SME focused Business Continuity Managed Service

01 Sep 2010

DataSafe customers grow by 22% in last quarter, 100TB EMC storage added to off-site vaulting, performance improved by move to iomart datacenters and addition of new channel partners highlights business expansion

Core Consultancy has announced its strongest quarter of growth with a 22% increase in customers prompting the firm to expand its offsite storage and switch to a more scalable datacenter environment with iomart.

Videos Enterprise-Scale UPS Protection for Medium and Large Data Centers

27 Aug 2010

Joergen Madsen, Senior Product Manager at Emerson Network Power discusses the recent trend in power consumption within the data centre and how the LiebertNXL can help load instability.

Articles Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch: Sun Server and Storage Optimization Techniques

16 Aug 2010

By meeting the requirements to deploy new applications and support a larger number of internal and external customers, IT organizations are facing a space, power, and cooling crunch. Silo-architected legacy applications that do not share resources and energy-inefficient legacy servers that are sized to handle the maximum possible workload have pushed data centers to the limits of space and energy consumption. Many datacenters built to last 10 to 15 years have reached a premature end of life because they were not meant to support the growth that has actually taken place.

News APC Announces Next Generation Rack Power Distribution Platform to Maximize Energy Efficiency and Improve Power Management

13 Aug 2010

Next Generation Metered and Switched Rack PDUs focus on accessibility and efficiency for effective real-time and remote data center management .

APC by Schneider Electric has introduced the Next Generation Rack Power Distribution (PDU) units. APC’s new Next Generation Metered and Switched Rack PDUs will help IT and facilities managers more effectively and productively manage power capacity and functionality for critical network, server and data center equipment. APC’s new Rack PDUs solve rack-level power needs while incorporating new intelligent features like real power measurement and environmental monitoring all in a space-efficient zero-U form factor – the most shallow depth form factor in the industry.

Articles Power viruses can kill productivity

05 Aug 2010

What are the six most common types we should be aware of and how should we deal with them? Rob Morris, Country Manager, POWERVAR discusses the issues

Articles UPS - only for emergency power backup?

04 Aug 2010

Companies often install uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to provide backup power if the main supply is lost. But power outage is relatively rare. Are we missing a trick by not looking at other issues around power quality and the potential impact on businesses? Rob Morris, UK Country Manager, Powervar, discusses the issues.

Articles Yorkshire Water Case Study

04 Aug 2010

Yorkshire Water, a subsidiary of Kelda, provides water and waste water services to domestic and business customers across Yorkshire, servicing more than 4.7m people and 140,000 businesses. The company is committed to using advanced techniques and technologies to drive efficiencies and minimise environmental impact by reducing the energy consumption of its IT facilities.

Videos More Than A Box Podcast - Hu Yoshida

29 Jul 2010

Belive in data center transformation. Hu Yoshida from Hitachi Data Systems talks about some cool advances, summarized in his blog series at http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2010/07/data-...
Check it out!

News DPS and Geist Forge New Partnership

23 Jul 2010

Data and Power Solutions, a leading manufacturer of power distribution and environmental monitoring solutions, has announced a new partnership with US firm Geist Manufacturing.

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Articles Carnival UK Cruises Towards Greener IT - Case Study

19 Jul 2010

When Carnival UK, a leader in the UK cruise industry, moved its corporate headquarters to a new, ultra-modern landmark building overlooking Southampton Water, its IT department made the most of the opportunity to make changes to its infrastructure. The company, which operates leading cruise lines including P&O Cruises, Cunard, Princess Cruises and Ocean Village, made a number of significant improvements in IT, primarily with the objective of reducing costs and driving efficiencies.

Blog How desktop technology drives data centres

16 Jul 2010

Christian Paetz form Raritan writes:

One would assume that data centers are a place where high tech gets introduced and the mass PC market is a followers market. However there are plenty of examples where it is just the other way around. For years the processor market was driven by the battle between Intel and AMD this battle was fought where the volume was and is – consumer PCs. Another good example is the keyboard interface. Servers still used PS/2 when it was already hard to get a non-USB keyboard for consumer PCs. Also the good old VGA interface has only survived in the metal rack cabinets of data centers and data rooms.

News PGS Data Centre achieves annualised PUE of 1.17 to achieve major reductions in energy usage and emmisions

15 Jul 2010

A data centre designed and built by Keysource for oil exploration surveyor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has achieved an annualised PUE of just 1.17, making it one of the most energy-efficient facilities of its kind in Europe. As a result, the data centre has achieved first year savings of £650,000 and a 6.7 million KWh drop in power consumption, equating to a 2.9 million kg reduction in CO2 emissions.

Articles Site selection – top five things to consider when building a data centre

15 Jul 2010

Whether you’re an in-house IT manager, developer or collocation provider looking to build a new data centre, one of the most important decisions in the whole process has to be where you build it. Over the last 10 years various factors have been jostling for position as the most important consideration.

It is essential to recognise that each site is different and every company has separate requirements. There is no such thing as a one site fits all.

In this article, Adam Tamburini, UK country manager at e-shelter, draws on over a decade of experience to discuss how requirements for data centre land has changed in recent years and what the industry top five now look like.

Videos Economizers Webcast Q&A

13 Jul 2010

Integrating economizers into data center cooling architectures can be an effective approach to improving efficiency. However, designs need to consider humidity, contamination, system reliability, and controls to ensure that data center availability is not compromised. Watch this video Q&A with Ron Spangler, senior product manager for the Liebert Precision Cooling business of Emerson Network Power for Q&A from a Business Innovators Series webcast on the costs, benefits and best practices associated with implementing air-side and water-side economizers in specific climates

Articles Countdown to 2050 - The Climate Change Challenge by Ian Brooks

13 Jul 2010

Universal momentum

It has been almost universally acknowledged that the risk to our planet from the effects of greenhouse gases is a real and present one. The scientific evidence is overwhelming and it demands an urgent global response.

News Carbon Trust halves data centre emissions, by design

12 Jul 2010

Low carbon design of Lockerbie ‘Data Fortress’ paves way for new Carbon Trust Design Service

The rise in carbon emissions threatened by the projected exponential growth of data centres could be halved in the UK, thanks to a new design service launched by the Carbon Trust today.

News AEG Power Solutions Appoints Mayflex to champion UPS Channel Sales

12 Jul 2010

AEG Power Solutions has announced the appointment of Mayflex UK Ltd. as distribution partner for its growing range of technology leading, energy efficient back-up power and UPS solutions. Mayflex is a well-known distributor of cabling infrastructure, networking and physical security products with operations in the UK and EMEA. Commenting upon the agreement, Stuart Priest, UK Channel Manager for AEG Power Solutions said, “Mayflex is an ideal fit for AEG Power Solutions channel strategy. As a dynamic and growth oriented organisation, Mayflex combines UPS knowledge with the opportunity to add-value through mass-cabling solutions.”

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

News Data Centre Expo & Green Data Center Alliance

25 Jun 2010

The Green Data Center Alliance and Data Centre Expo have reached an agreement to promote power saving initiatives in the data center.

Videos Optimizing Data Center Performance with Chilled Water Precision Cooling

14 Jun 2010

As data center and IT managers continue to show preference for products that aide in data center energy reduction, Emerson Network Power has introduced a technologically-enhanced, chilled water-based computer room air conditioning unit (CRAC) that offers greater energy savings to large data centers. The Liebert CW chilled water-based precision cooling system is specifically designed to handle the high heat loads generated by computers and other electronic equipment, using an existing building chiller as a source of chilled water cooling.

Videos The International Customer Lounge

10 Jun 2010

Discover Schneider Electric's showroom: the International Customer Lounge (ICL)
The International Customer Lounge (ICL) is the showroom for Schneider Electric's headquarters, known as the Hive. This site is located at Rueil-Malmaison in France, near Paris.

News 100 per cent renewable claim by NGD

10 Jun 2010

Following a ground-breaking long-term supply agreement NGD Europe, one of the world's largest data centres, has become the first in Europe to purchase renewable energy for 100 per cent of its power usage.

News A Modular, Scalable, Data Centre with a PUE of 1.13

03 Jun 2010

A statement like that is surely worthy of a spot in the next episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Last week I was treated to a revolutionary facility tour. The invitation to see this new facility was nearly ignored, thinking it would be yet another container tour. The PR gambit sent through was a bit vague and in truth, as the old adage goes, if it sounds too good to be true...you know the rest!

Videos BladeRoom Plug & Play

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Plug & Play capability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos The BladeRoom System

03 Jun 2010

Last week I toured this facility before it was broken up and transported to its new resting space with a well reputed hosting provider and re-assembled over the recent Bank holiday weekend.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Scalabilty, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos BladeRoom Cooling System

03 Jun 2010

This is a short clip on the innovative BladeRoom cooling system.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on the BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency, BladeRoom's Plug & Play and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Monitoring

03 Jun 2010

Watch this clip to learn about BladeRoom's remote monitoring systems.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Resilience

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Resilience

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Maintenance

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Maintenance

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Plug & Play andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Scalability

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Scalability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Plug & Play.

News Micro-modular partnership

01 Jun 2010

Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), the global leaders in Micro-Modular Data Centres, has formed a strategic distribution partnership with Hammer, the number one European distributor dedicated solely to storage.

News Server sales put pressure on power, cooling and space

14 May 2010

A significant increase in server sales during the next two years will lead to a further acceleration of data center power, cooling and space problems, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that users need to quantify the effects of new deployments and take action without delay.

Articles Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits

11 May 2010

Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization’s undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. In particular, row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and real-time capacity management are essential elements in realizing virtualization’s full potential in cost reduction, efficiency, and reliability.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

Videos Maximizing Efficiency and Infrastructure at Lowest Cost

16 Apr 2010

Hot spots and zones are flarring up in IT spaces, as datacentre and network managers virtualise servers and implement blades and commuinication technologies such as power over ethernet. Introducing Smart Aisle by Emerson Network Power

News Slow server growth expected

15 Apr 2010

According to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Server Forecast, customer server revenue will pick up slightly in 2010 as the market recovers from the recession in 2009. IDC expects a modest increase of 2.4%, set against the weakest server figures recorded by IDC in 2009.

News Achieving the Gold standard

15 Apr 2010

Emerson’s state-of-the-art, energy-efficient Global Data Center in St. Louis has earned two high-profile industry recognitions for environmental responsibility: LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and a 2009 Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award from the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.

Articles Managing IT in tough economic conditions

09 Apr 2010

We are all feeling the effects of the economic situation facing the world markets today, and IT is no exception. In past economic downturns, those companies that focused on cost containment and process improvement emerged in a stronger position. During the current financial implosion, businesses must look at their expenses and determine where they should spend and where they should cut in order to ride out the storm.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

Videos Aperture Integrated Resource Manager

11 Mar 2010

Discover Aperture Integrated Resource Manager, the first data center performance optimization solution for extending the life of existing infrastructure resources and improving overall efficiency in the data center.

Videos SuperCaps from AEG PowerSolutions

11 Mar 2010

Luca Buscherini, AC Product Line Manager, AEG Power Solutions speaking about AEG Protect UPS with SuperCaps at CeBIT 2010.

News Security, power and price drive UK market

09 Mar 2010

83 per cent of respondents regard data centre expansion business critical or important to businesses development.

News SNIA Europe endorses EU Data Centre Code

09 Mar 2010

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe is endorsing the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency.

News Emerson Global Data Centre in St. Louis achieves LEED Gold certification

01 Mar 2010

Energy-Efficient facility also wins Beyond Green Award.

Videos DCW - Daxten/Starline

25 Feb 2010

Lance from Daxten/Starline @ DCW 2010