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Data Centre Maintenance / Management stories - Page 6

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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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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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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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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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.
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VMware achieves carbon neutrality two years early

Fri, 2nd Nov 2018
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VMware has achieved carbon neutrality two years ahead of schedule, through a combination of energy efficiency initiatives and renewable energy projects.
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Exclusive: Lenovo's Shayne Harris on the future data centre

Mon, 22nd Oct 2018
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Harris says data centres that fail to keep up with the pulse of change will not be able to survive in the future.
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Water scarcity pinned as a major threat to data centre growth

Tue, 16th Oct 2018
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By 2030 global demand for fresh water will exceed available supplies by 40 percent, while data centre demand continues to surge.
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Exclusive: Aruba lays bare its data centre cooling operations

Wed, 3rd Oct 2018
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Aruba's Lorenzo Giuntini says data centres have an obligation to adopt free cooling systems to improve energy efficiency.
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New whitepaper determines what cooling compressor matches your data centre

Fri, 24th Aug 2018
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Schneider Electric has released a new whitepaper that delves into the different types of cooling compressors and what their ideal usage is.
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What to expect when you're expecting 5G NR deployment

Tue, 21st Aug 2018
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Schneider Electric's Steven Carlini discusses the new wave of optimism surrounding 5G and what this means for the future of micro data centers.
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Google reveals AI system taking charge of its data centres

Mon, 20th Aug 2018
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Once used only on a recommendation basis, the AI system is now taking direct control of Google's data centres with significant energy savings.
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Toasty! Excess heat from DigiPlex data centre to warm thousands of homes

Tue, 14th Aug 2018
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Reuse and recycle is a slogan that is becoming increasingly critical to our existence on this planet, and something DigiPlex has taken note of.
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Microsoft livestreams underwater life near Scotland data centre

Fri, 10th Aug 2018
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Microsoft announced that it had launched an underwater data centre in Scotland, but who knew that it would be so attractive to fish?.
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Data center operators are in the midst of 'perfect storm'

Thu, 9th Aug 2018
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Data center operators are making progress in lowering energy waste, but face new challenges, according to the Uptime Institute's Data Center Survey.
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HPE and TACC build the world's first solar-powered supercomputer

Mon, 6th Aug 2018
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HPE and TACC unveil Hikari, the world's first solar-powered supercomputer, aimed at revolutionising energy usage in high-performance computing.
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Google building new Singapore data center to join its other two

Wed, 1st Aug 2018
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This will bring the tech giant's total Singapore data center investment to more than US$850m in a bid to meet surging demand.
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Report finds opportunities abound in the data center cooling market

Tue, 31st Jul 2018
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Where there's data centers, there's heat, which means the cooling market will undertake rapid growth and innovation in the coming years.
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Schneider Electric chips in for a sustainable data centre future

Mon, 30th Jul 2018
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Very soon we will have consumed more from the planet than it can renew in the future - but Schneider Electric says it can be reversed.
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Data center cooling maintenance crucial to avoiding a meltdown

Mon, 30th Jul 2018
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The hottest days of the year and the meltdowns that go with them can have catastrophic effects for those managing data centers.