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Data Centre Maintenance / Management stories - Page 9

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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Survey finds DC managers want more efficiency, not horsepower

Tue, 19th Feb 2019
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More servers and more CPU power used to be the answer to boosting data centre performance, but it appears this is no longer the case.
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Telco central offices are being transformed into the edge

Tue, 19th Feb 2019
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Schneider Electric's Steven Carlini discusses how the old central offices are now ideal to enable the telco edge.
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Why businesses should invest in energy automation

Thu, 14th Feb 2019
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Schneider Electric's Global Digital Transformation Benefits Report 2019 highlights substantial CapEx and OpEx savings, boosting energy automation appeal.
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World's longest electric car journey reaches Adelaide

Fri, 1st Feb 2019
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Dutchman Wiebe Wakker arrived in Adelaide after a 1051-day journey from Amsterdam in an electric car, proving the potential of sustainable travel.
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Schneider Electric edge technology implemented at Tuggeranong Office Park

Wed, 23rd Jan 2019
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Schneider Electric and Airmaster collaborate on new Building Services Network in Canberra, combining Edge Computing and Smart Building applications.
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Fujitsu takes conservation prize for immersion cooling system

Tue, 22nd Jan 2019
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The prize was awarded for the Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY Immersion Cooling System that can reduce power consumption by up to 40%.
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Three ways 5G will impact power management in 2019

Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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Power failures or any network interruptions are not an option. Rolling out 5G is complex and presents a unique challenge for telco providers.
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Data centre cybersecurity actions that most people overlook

Fri, 18th Jan 2019
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Schneider's Steven Carlini discusses ways to improve data centre cybersecurity that most people don't think of until it's too late.
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Blockchain companies revolutionise electric power

Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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Blockchain may be the 'missing link' that could transform the electric power industry and leave traditional business models in the dust.
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Lynx and Teledyne e2v reduce time & risk for safety certifiable PowerPC system development

Mon, 7th Jan 2019
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The new development platform is designed to reduce risk and time needed to certify safety-critical power applications.
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5 strategies for widening the colocation data centre talent pool

Fri, 21st Dec 2018
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The colocation industry has one of the lowest unemployment numbers across industries, making talent acquisition a difficult task.
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Critical data centre operations is just like F1

Thu, 13th Dec 2018
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Schneider's David Gentry believes critical data centre operations share many parallels to a formula 1 race car team.
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Schneider Electric's bets for the 2019 data centre industry

Wed, 12th Dec 2018
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From IT and telco merging to the renaissance of liquid cooling, here are the company's top predictions for the year ahead.
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Fujitsu's WA data centre undergoing efficiency upgrade

Wed, 12th Dec 2018
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Fujitsu's Malaga data centre in Perth has hit a four-star rating from National Australia Built Environment Rating System (NABERS).
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How to keep network infrastructure secure and available

Tue, 11th Dec 2018
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Two OVH executives have weighed in on how network infrastructure and the challenges in that space will be evolving in the coming year.
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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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Data centre operations must become more standardised

Tue, 4th Dec 2018
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Schneider Electric's Anthony DeSpirito says with data centres being crucial to business profit and loss, CIOs must now be a partner in all strategic decisions.
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Eaton unveils new power distribution partner programme

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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Eaton unveils its Power Distribution Partner Program to enhance national presence and meet rising demand in industrial, commercial, and utilities sectors.
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Edge data centres expanding to shared working spaces

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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Likely beginning a trend, Christie Spaces is now the first workspace in Australia to offer customers data centre rack space on-site for rent.
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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.