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• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  UK banks under pressure to improve downtime reporting under new FCA rules

  To make it easier for customers to compare and switch between current account providers, UK banks are under pressure to improve their reporting processes for downtime and security incidents

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  Frequency and severity of datacentre outages on the rise, Uptime Institute research suggests

  The Uptime Institute’s eighth annual datacentre survey reveals operators across the world are suffering more outages, as the complexity of the environments they manage continues to grow

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

  IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

  Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development

  French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

  Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

  Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

  One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows

  Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney

  Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech

  Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place