Intelligent Data Centres
Equinix invests €32 million to expand its data centres in Finland
Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has announced it is continuing to invest in growing its data centre capacity in Finland. The company is expanding two of its International Business Exchange (IBX) sites – HE5 and HE7 – in Helsinki, with a 32 million euro investment boosting...
Sutton and Kingston Councils partner with Vivacity Labs to improve active travel
Sutton and Kingston Councils will be working with UK-based transport AI company, Vivacity Labs, to help improve active travel insight and the safety of high footfall areas. The councils, as part of the InnOvaTe project, will utilise Vivacity’s AI and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to...
Equinix joins European cloud and data centre providers to make pledge towards climate neutrality
Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has announced it will join European cloud infrastructure and data centre providers and European trade associations to form the Climate Neutral Data Centre Operator Pact and Self-Regulatory Initiative. The pact marks the first time the industry has come...
DigiPlex acquires land for data centre outside of Oslo
DigiPlex, a Nordic leader for sustainable, innovative and secure data centres, has acquired a plot of 60,000 m2, with an option to purchase an additional 100,000 m2 in Treklyngen industrial park in Ringerike municipality outside of Oslo. The seller is Follum Eiendom AS. The site has been prepared...
Features
Data is money – dealing with dark data in financial services
As technology advances, old data gets harder to read and slower to utilise. When it falls off the radar, it is called dark data. Jasmit...
Amazon Web Services launches region in Italy
The new Amazon Web Services Europe (Milan) Region expands the cloud pioneer’s global footprint, enabling customers to run...
Kao Data expert on why a trillion-dollar industry must be built on more than feelings
Paul Finch, COO, Kao Data, tells us why the data centre industry can no longer be reliant on ‘feeling’ its way forward to...
How can organisations adapt their data centre operations to become more eco-friendly?
Kao Data has excelled at the Datacloud Global Awards, winning the ‘Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility’ category,...
Insights
How FinTech companies can facilitate continued growth
The pandemic has highlighted the fact that business leaders should take the current situation as an opportunity to improve and invest in...
The Norway advantage: Why businesses are moving IT workloads to the Nordics
As the data centre industry remains competitive and develops at an unprecedented rate, data centre leaders are discovering innovative...
The shift is on: From data centres to ‘centres of data’
Michael Dickman, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, offers his best practice...
Expert discusses keeping it green as a top priority for 2021
It is now widely understood that the UK is to reach its legally binding zero-carbon target in the UK by 2050 and in order to do so, we...
Case Studies
i3 Solutions Group Lon1 data centre award winning modernisation project
Modernisation in the data centre industry is key to successful evolution and maintaining a high standard of operation. Jim Shanahan,...