Vertiv acquisition boosts liquid cooling portfolio
Vertiv has announced that subsidiaries of the company have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of CoolTera Ltd, a provider of coolant distribution infrastructure for data center liquid cooling technology and certain assets, including...
Vertiv collaborates with Intel on liquid cooled solution
Vertiv is collaborating with Intel to provide a liquid cooling solution that will support the new Intel Gaudi3 AI accelerator, scheduled to launch in 2024. AI applications and high-performance computing emit higher amounts of heat, and organisations are increasingly...
Updated guidance for data centres during extreme heat
Warmer weather in the southern hemisphere has just started, but already heatwaves have washed over many parts of the region, with extreme weather warnings - for both abnormally high temperatures and fire risks - being issued in many countries including Argentina,...
Vertiv debuts prefabricated mass timber solutions
Vertiv has introduced the TimberMod variant of its Vertiv Power Module and SmartMod families, featuring mass timber as a key structural component instead of steel for prefabricated modular (PFM) data centre solutions. Available in North America and in Europe, Middle...
The rise of the micro datacentre industry
Micro datacentres today play an all-important role in supporting edge computing infrastructure, bringing computing closer to the source of data whilst reducing latency, and improving performance. It is a role that is set to evolve and grow, with the micro datacentre...
Download and win with the Vertiv XR App
Download the Vertiv™ XR App and you win on all fronts: not only does the augmented reality (AR) app assist you with data centre planning – but you could win a virtual reality (VR) headset too. The Vertiv™ XR App allows data centre operators, IT managers and channel...
Unlocking Africa’s data centre potential
Africa's data centre market is booming, ringing in an era of hyperscale for the continent. By Stephen Rose, director of Royal HaskoningDHV's mission-critical facilities Africa unit Industry giants such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are vying to establish new nodes...
Four aspects to consider when designing a green data centre
Organisations across the globe are rapidly embracing sustainability goals and programmes, recognising that going green is not just beneficial to our planet but also good for business. The challenge, however, is to move from goals and promises to progress and action....
HPE adds cloud services, portfolio to HPE GreenLake
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a significant expansion of offerings and innovation across its HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, hybrid cloud services, private cloud portfolio, and partner ecosystem. * HPE closes OpsRamp acquisition; solution is now...
Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers Deliver Greater Energy Efficiency
South Africa’s energy crisis has become a driving force for organisations to optimise the efficiency of their data centres by reducing power consumption as far as possible while maintaining high levels of performance. A new range of Dell PowerEdge servers, powered by...
Creating the path to a modern green data centre
According to a recent Forrester study commissioned by Dell Technologies, businesses overprovision their storage environment by an average of 37%, suggesting a good number of customers could realise benefits through consolidation. By reducing data, increasing drive...
Lenovo launches edge automation at scale
At MWC 2023, Lenovo announced the next generation of ThinkEdge remote automation and orchestration with the introduction of new software solutions to accelerate the deployment of edge solutions. Lenovo's new Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) 2.6 software delivers...