Intelligent Data Centres Issue 41 | Page 3

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. News
Latest news round-up
14 . Latest intelligence

CONTENTS

Whitepapers from Equinix and Snowplow
21 . Industry intelligence powered by the DCA

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Data centre predictions
Taking data centres from power hungry to energy efficient
Data centre combined heat and compute facilities – the future normal ?
25 . Infographic
Uptime Institute report finds downtime costs and consequences worsening
26 . Project focus
Latest updates from US , Ireland , Ghana and India
29 . Editor ’ s question
How are data centre providers offering a solution to the widening skills gap ?
40 . Expert opinion

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Feature
Managed Hosting Provider , VDC , drives business , cost savings and storage consolidation
Combatting grid strain with decentralised energy solutions
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Feature
Sustainable power adoption in data centres starts with Demand Response
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. Intelligent technologies

COVER

STORY

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End user insight
Vertiv enables top
UK university to continue educating the next generation
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. Uncovering the layers
From the grey space to the white space : How Starline ’ s High Power Busbar , or XCP , range goes further
66 . Deep dive
We ‘ deep dive ’ with Stuart Crump , Director of Sales , Iceotope , who tells us about life inside and outside the office .
68 . The Edge
Assessing the sustainability impact of Lithium-ion batteries in data centre UPS www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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