Google has announced plans to spend $140 million expanding its only Latin American data centre. Located in Chile, Google is tripling the size of the data centre as well as employing 1,000 people to aid construction. The data centre in Quilicura located near Santiago was announced in 2012 and cost $150 million to build, becoming...

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As the US government issues evacuation orders for the southeastern United States in anticipation of the Category 4 Hurricane Florence, data centres must prepare for the potential impact of the weather on their facilities. The storm is expected to hit North Carolina, with different projections showing potential damage through South Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. Major...

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Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has announced that it will build six new data halls at its London North data centre. The six new halls will form the first part of a major expansion project at the site which will allow Colt to house 10 new data halls in total. The delivery of the first...

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Keppel Group and the Salim Group have revealed plans to operate a high-availability data centre in Bogor. The data centre will be overseen by both companies through the Alpha Data Centre Fund (Alpha DC Fund) and will be managed by Alpha Investment Partners Limited and Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd. Wong Wai Meng, CEO...

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Availability, resilience, reliability, and redundancy are all key challenges for the modern-day data centre manager. Requirements for operators to be ever more efficient and maintain high availability and physical redundancy has never been greater, meaning that many businesses have to continue hefty investment into facilities upgrades and new technologies. Managing a data centre portfolio with...

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Facebook has announced a new data centre to be built in Singapore. The facility, estimated to cost $1 billion USD, will be the company’s first in Asia. The new data centre will be located in western Singapore and is expected to open in 2022. It will comprise 170,000 square meters, over 11 stories, and will...

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Riello UPS General Manager Leo Craig explains how tapping into the potential of UPS battery storage is helping run a pioneering virtual power plant. All of us involved with the data centre sector know only too well how demand for storage and processing capacity is likely to rocket in the coming years. The ‘Internet of...

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West African data firm MainOne announced plans to build three new data centres across West Africa to support the region’s growing digital enhancements. The new data centres will be located in Accra, Ghana; Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire and Sagamu, Nigeria. The data centre expansion strategy is in partnership with Minkels, a part of the public trade...

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ResearchandMarkets has released its latest report, “Data Center Power Market – Global Outlook and Forecast 2018-2023.” Among other findings, the report estimates that the global data centre power market will reach a total value of $19 billion USD by 2023, growing at a CAGR of more than 6% from 2017-2023. The report also indicates that...

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Cisco has released a patch to a recently-discovered security flaw in the Data Center Network Manager software. The Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software is used to manage switches and routers connected through LAN and SAN environments, including the Cisco Nexus switches and MDS enterprise SAN switches. The vulnerability affects DCNM versions 11.0 or later,...

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