Stuart McKay is business development manager, Enterprise Technologies, Panduit EMEA, a world leader in infrastructure products and services for data networks and electrical power applications. We asked McKay to give his thoughts on some of the most important and interesting infrastructure questions facing the industry right now. Under the microscope are Smart Cities - namely, the winners, losers and initiatives that show the most promise. McKay also dives deep into connectivity and the cabling implications for WiFi 6, the next-generation wireless standard tipped to improve performance in congested areas.

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Sean Hilliar, Co-Founder and Data Centre Manager, IP House, lists 15 tips to help you make the correct choice of colo Today, many businesses choose to host their critical applications within resilient colocation data centres, offering a cost-optimised solution that dramatically simplifies the complexities of owning and operating on-premise IT. However, a key issue that... Read More

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One of the less talked about features of the UK in lockdown is the uncharacteristically warm weather we have “enjoyed” over the past few months. Saving a few gusts of wind here and there, London has been basking in a seemingly never ending sunny spell and the UK itself has just recorded the driest May since 1896.

It looks like we’re heading for another sweltering summer here in Britain, which let’s be honest, would be extremely well-timed as far as the nation’s citizens are concerned if stay-at-home restrictions continue to ease. 

But what of the UK’s data centre operators? We asked data centre power and cooling experts, whether given a range of Covid-19 related pressures, the prospect of summer heat-wave is leaving them unphased, or hot under the collar.

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ETH Zurich in Switzerland is one of the most highly regarded science and technology universities, one known for its cutting-edge research and innovation.

When it come to data centres, the pinnacle of innovation right now centres on how data analytics, sensors and AI can be used to improve power and performance.

Over the last few years, a group of researchers from both ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna has been at the forefront of advanced data centre monitoring research.

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The lack of staff or “lights out” nature of many local IT and mobile  edge computing (MEC) sites makes operations & maintenance of the supporting IT infrastructure a challenge. This struggle worsens as the number of sites increase. How do you maintain IT resiliency in a cost effective way under these conditions? It is not practical... Read More

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Data centres exist to deliver IT workloads in a manner that is both capital and energy-efficient, in this way both data centre and customers benefit. Yet the power delivery method remains rigid, inflexible and usually misaligned with IT SLAs, which has a significant negative impact on performance and infrastructure capital efficiency.

For many in the data centre sector, one of the most pressing concerns is that much of the world’s data centre infrastructure operates in a manner that is financially suboptimal and environmentally unsustainable. While there is steady capital inflows to the data centre sector some are questioning whether data centres are as capital efficient as they could be. If a data centre is only using a fraction of the available power then the capital investment that is tied up in inflexible power infrastructure is impotent. The question is, who is paying for that stranded capacity and unused space?

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