Delinea, a provider of innovations that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), has announced its expansion in Dubai with a new Azure data centre. The new facility offers customers in the Middle East increased deployment options to better serve their compliance needs with the company’s enhanced cloud infrastructure built on Azure. “We are on a mission to revolutionise identity security and privileged access, and we want all our customers to reap the benefits,” says Mohammad Ismail, Vice President, MEA at Delinea. “The new Azure data centre gives customers in the Middle East the p ..read more

Pulsant, a UK-based provider of data centre and edge infrastructure, has launched a partner programme designed to create a partner ecosystem enabling regional businesses and channel partners to jointly capitalise on rising demand for colocation, Edge, and IaaS solutions. Pulsant’s new programme offers partners access to its platformEDGE digital infrastructure and aims to develop a collaborative ecosystem by providing Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with new commercial models, sales enablement resources, incentives and dedicated support staff. Not only will this facilitate digital innovation w ..read more

Kohler Power Systems, part of Kohler Energy, has expanded its KD Series line of industrial generators with a new model, KD800, designed for 50hz markets. This generator features a new advanced engine (KD18L06) that can also run on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable fuel source. This new model joins a proven series of gensets that continues to provide the highest power density and best fuel consumption at more nodes than competitors between 800-4500 kVa, offering cost savings to users. The new KD unit is designed to power mission-critical applications, including airports, hospitals ..read more

Axis Communications, a network video specialist, has introduced Axis Cloud Connect, an open hybrid cloud platform designed to provide customers with more secure, flexible, and scalable security solutions. Together with Axis devices, the platform enables a range of managed services to support system and device management, video and data delivery and meet high demands in cybersecurity, the company says. The video surveillance market is increasingly utilising connectivity to cloud, driven by the need for remote access, data-driven insights, and scalability. While the number of cloud-connected cam ..read more

by Anthea van Scherpenzeel, Senior Sustainability Manager at Colt DCS. Sustainability has swiftly evolved over the last 10 years from a nice-to-have, to a top business concern. The data centres industry is one that is frequently criticised for its excessive energy usage and environmental effects. For example, data centres account for about a fifth of Ireland’s total power use, while global data centre and network electricity consumption in 2022 was expected to be up to 1.3% of global final electricity demand. It is clear that responsible roadmaps and measurable targets are needed to lessen the ..read more

A new data throughput record has been set at Europe’s largest Internet Exchange (IX), DE-CIX Frankfurt. In parallel to the quarter-final second leg of the UEFA Champions League, on April 16 at 9.21pm (CEST), more than 17 terabits per second (Tbit/s) (to be specific, 17.09 Tbit/s) of data flowed over the IX for the first time. 17 terabits per second corresponds to 5.7 million videos in HD quality being streamed simultaneously. In an analogue world, 17 terabits per second is equivalent to around 3.9 billion A4 pages of text – i.e. a stack more than 420 kilometers high, almost 50 times higher tha ..read more

Delta, a power management specialist and provider of IoT-based smart green solutions, has announced its participation in 2024 OCP Regional Summit to showcase its latest Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) 1 OU 18 kW Power Shelf and the next-gen HPR 33kW Power Shelf, both featuring remarkable efficiency as high as 97.5%. The power shelves can also be integrated with a power management controller (PMC), which highlights a Power over Ethernet (PoE) function up to 1 GbE rate, making them ideally suited for hyper-scale data centres in the era of AI. Franziskus Gehle, General Manager of Custom Design Power B ..read more

As part of its campaign to address the ongoing skills shortage in the digital infrastructure industry, HireHigher and Baker Dearing Educational Trust brought together 60 students from East London to help them understand what careers and opportunities the data centre industry has to offer. This initiative took place at the industry’s largest digital infrastructure event, Data Centre World, which was co-located within the Tech Show London and involved the students participating in employer engagement tasks around the conference to find out as much as they could about the industry. Working with B ..read more

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today introduced the Vertiv SmartAisle 3, a micro modular data centre system that utilises the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), providing enhanced intelligence and enabling efficient operations within the data centre environment. Now available in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the SmartAisle 3 can be configured up to 120kW of total IT load and is ideal for a wide range of industry applications, including banking, healthcare, government, and transportation. Building on the previous Vertiv Sm ..read more

With a new Uptime Institute report indicating that power remains the number one root cause of data centre outages, energy solutions provider Aggreko is calling attention to how data centres can begin reducing reliance on the grid, and in turn work towards greater energy resilience. The Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis 2024 details power as the leading cause of impactful incidents or outages among its respondents, and was cited by more than the rest of the options combined at 52%. This ranks far ahead of other significant factors such as cooling and third-party providers, at 19% and 9 ..read more