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Data Centre Maintenance / Management stories - Page 15

A data centre cannot run effectively without being properly maintained and managed. Poor maintenance can often lead to catastrophic data loss and physical damage. Data centre maintenance and management is undertaken by data center operators as a key responsibility. It involves ongoing inspection, cleaning, analysis, repairs and recovery of all electrical hardware and components.

​​Regular data centre maintenance is a crucial part of a data centre's operations. It's essential for improving data centre design and making sure clients are kept happy and satisfied with their storage and data options.
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2019: The year of edge data centres, AI, and work/life balance

Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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Schneider Electric's Kim Povlsen believes 2019 will be both a challenging and positive one for the IT industry.
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AI driving liquid cooling renaissance in modern data centres

Mon, 31st Dec 2018
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As AI applications push modern data centres to their limits, liquid cooling technologies are experiencing a resurgence to meet processing demands.
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5 strategies for widening the colocation data centre talent pool

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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The colocation industry has one of the lowest unemployment numbers across industries, making talent acquisition a difficult task.
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Digital Realty wins U.S. efficiency rating and commits to solar

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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In a time where the environmental impact of data centres is under the spotlight, Digital Realty has just announced a new sustainability achievement.
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Report: Bulk of data centre managers don't care about environment

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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This week Supermicro released its first annual report detailing the environmental impact of today's cloud-scale data centres.
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Critical data centre operations is just like F1

Thu, 13th Dec 2018
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Schneider's David Gentry believes critical data centre operations share many parallels to a formula 1 race car team.
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Schneider Electric's bets for the 2019 data centre industry

Wed, 12th Dec 2018
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From IT and telco merging to the renaissance of liquid cooling, here are the company's top predictions for the year ahead.
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Fujitsu's WA data centre undergoing efficiency upgrade

Wed, 12th Dec 2018
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Fujitsu's Malaga data centre in Perth has hit a four-star rating from National Australia Built Environment Rating System (NABERS).
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How to keep network infrastructure secure and available

Tue, 11th Dec 2018
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Two OVH executives have weighed in on how network infrastructure and the challenges in that space will be evolving in the coming year.
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DigiPlex's data centre heat reuse system wins award

Tue, 11th Dec 2018
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Its solution to reuse heat to warm thousands of local homes took out the accolade at the recent 2018 Energy Awards.
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How Schneider Electric aims to simplify IT management

Mon, 10th Dec 2018
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Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure IT Expert in Australia, offering vendor-neutral, cloud-based monitoring to simplify IT infrastructure management.
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CyrusOne investing in new Amsterdam data centre

Fri, 7th Dec 2018
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CyrusOne is continuing its rapid and relentless investment into Europe, with news emerging of a new facility in the Netherlands.
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Data centre operations must become more standardised

Tue, 4th Dec 2018
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Schneider Electric's Anthony DeSpirito says with data centres being crucial to business profit and loss, CIOs must now be a partner in all strategic decisions.
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Park Place opens new APAC HQ with 50% more jobs on the cards

Mon, 3rd Dec 2018
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Singapore is a hot bed of innovation at the moment and Park Place Technologies is looking to capitalise on it.
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Vertiv launches IT testing lab in Poland data centre

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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This facility is the first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) and will enable clients to test environments to improve energy efficiency.
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Europe leading the way in OCP adoption

Fri, 23rd Nov 2018
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Schneider's Robert Bunger discusses his key takings from the Open Compute Summit and how Europe is leading the US.
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Edge data centres expanding to shared working spaces

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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Likely beginning a trend, Christie Spaces is now the first workspace in Australia to offer customers data centre rack space on-site for rent.
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HPE extends cloud-based AI tool InfoSight to servers

Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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HPE asserts it is a big deal as the system can drive down operating costs, plug disruptive performance gaps, and free up time to allow IT staff to innovate.
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Data centre management can learn from the Navy

Wed, 14th Nov 2018
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While a nuclear submarine may seem like a completely different beast from a data centre, the similarities in how they should be managed are striking and many.
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Schneider reveals Uptime Institute-ready pre-fab data centres

Tue, 6th Nov 2018
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Schneider Electric has launched Uptime Institute-ready prefabricated data centres, aiming to cut Tier certification costs by 50% and speed up deployment.