Misconceptions have a habit of persisting – especially in an era of ‘fake news’. Take for example the idea that the order in which you might drink wine or beer has some effect on how hungover you feel the next day. Beer before wine is fine but wine before beer? Oh, dear. The reality
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Millions of UPS systems in data centers around the globe use various types of batteries to provide transitional backup power in the event of an unplanned outage. That means there are hundreds of millions of batteries storing vast amounts of largely unused energy scattered around the world. The data center industry has long seen this
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Our retail customers are racing to transform their digital and operations capabilities in order to meet evolving customer demand for a more satisfying purchasing experience. Every day, I speak to retailers who are struggling with the disruptive force of e-commerce, which is driving increased use of digital technologies to enhance the in-store experience, better understand
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It’s not a big revelation that enterprises have shifted workloads to the cloud hosting. But it is useful to consider how enterprise requirements are changing based on this shift and how colocation providers can capitalize on the opportunities being created. To that end, 451 Research, with support from Vertiv, surveyed more than 700 IT decision
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Data center cooling represents up to 50% of overall energy consumption. An enormous amount of energy is used every day to maintain an acceptable intake temperature to the IT equipment. In recent years, there has been no greater positive impact on the cooling of data centers than the introduction of containment. The energy savings alone
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One of the surprises of the Vertiv Most Critical Industries report was the inclusion of Smart Cities. Smart Cities ranked seventh in the list, behind the Defense industry, which ranked sixth and Cloud and Colocation, which ranked fifth. It’s easy to make the case for the criticality of those industries, and others in the report,
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Expansion of the edge and increased reliance on cloud and colocation providers will drive much of what we expect to see in the coming year. From changing the physical architecture of data centers, whether they’re going high-density or hybrid, to changing the way the world thinks about data ownership, 2018 will usher in some significant
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The term “arms race” has become shorthand for any sort of contest of capabilities, but the phrase of course originally referred to military weaponry – swords, ships, aircraft or missiles, for example. Whenever a weapon emerged, all parties rushed to gain an advantage in firepower. The arms race, as they say, was on. Today it
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In IT we often hear the concept of ‘single pane of glass’ – a symbolic, possibly overused phrase that puts everything you need to worry about onto a single screen that could be managed by someone who doesn’t have any technical expertise. It’s a nice idea, but those of us behind these screens know that
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The term ‘disruptive’ is shockingly abused. Not so when it comes to blockchain. Many people are not familiar with blockchain, and yet it’s set to become the next big thing, so we’re told by Gartner. In fact it seems the technology is about to change the world in ways most of us have never considered.
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