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Frankfurt data centre meets EU taxonomy criteria

maincubes, a developer and operator of data centres in Europe, and part of the DTCP portfolio, has announced that its newly constructed FRA02 data centre in Frankfurt aligns with the EU Taxonomy standard. This milestone underscores maincubes’ commitment to stringent environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and creating long-term value for investors and clients alike. The EU Taxonomy is the classification framework to determine whether an economic activity is considered environmentally sustainable in the context of the European Green Deal. The framework sets rigorous performance standards for projects to ensure substantial contribution to climate goals, such as emissions reduction and energy efficiency. In addition, the alignment approves that a project does no significant harm (DNSH) to other environmental objectives and does not infringe on human rights. Verified by Northshore, a specialist in data centre sustainability assessments, FRA02 meets stringent criteria for energy efficiency and emissions management, bolstering its credibility and minimising risks through validated compliance with the EU Taxonomy‘s sustainability criteria. By adhering to the EU Taxonomy’s high standards, maincubes establishes with FRA02 a benchmark for sustainability and operational excellence in the data centre industry. The data centre’s innovative design and energy-efficient operations serve as a model for the industry under increasing pressure to lower emissions and improve sustainability. “Achieving EU Taxonomy alignment for FRA02 underlines our commitment to sustainability and regulatory excellence. This important milestone contributes to shaping a more sustainable future for the data centre industry, while enhancing trust and transparency for our customers and stakeholders,” says Martin Murphy, Chief Operating Officer at maincubes. For more from maincubes, click here.

Acquisition and expansion of Hawaiian data centre announced

Harrison Street and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty have announced the acquisition of AlohaNAP, a premier carrier hotel data centre located on the island of O‘ahu in Hawaii. AlohaNAP is a strategic addition to Harrison Street and 1547’s connectivity-focused data centre platform. AlohaNAP is strategically located with direct access to five submarine cable networks and 40+ communication satellites, establishing a rare and critical connection between the US and APAC regions. It is one of the world’s few multi-tenant, carrier-neutral data centre facilities with satellite and subsea fibre access, offering connectivity to all major carriers in Hawaii as well as US mainland and international short-haul, long-haul and dark network providers.  "AlohaNAP is a crucial hub for international data transmission, connecting major global markets and serving as a key edge node for trans-Pacific connectivity within Hawaii's rapidly expanding edge computing market,” says Michael Borchetta, Managing Director in Transactions at Harrison Street. “Acquiring AlohaNAP strengthens our connectivity-centric data centre platform, adding valuable scale and diversity across our multi-site carrier hotel portfolio. Alongside our partners at 1547, we are excited to leverage AlohaNAP's unique submarine cable and satellite access and continue to add further capacity to meet the needs of the world’s largest hyperscale tenants.”  Harrison Street and 1547 will immediately begin the Phase 1 expansion of AlohaNAP’s existing capacity through developing the current parking lot and adjacent area into an additional 10,300ft2, 1.5MW data centre designed for an additional, ~200 cabinets. Upon Phase 1 completion, the AlohaNAP facility will be a 22,800ft2, interconnection-focused data centre with 2.7MW of total capacity. This data centre will serve as the anchor of significant expansion plans for AlohaNAP, which will transform the site into a multi-building data centre campus. “We are excited to partner with Harrison Street on the expansion of AlohaNAP, a facility that embodies our joint commitment to connectivity,” says J. Todd Raymond, CEO and Managing Director at 1547. “Since 2012, we have been developing AlohaNAP as a gateway between the US and the APAC region and making it an invaluable asset in the global data ecosystem. As the demand for data transmission and edge computing continues to surge, we remain focused on delivering solutions that strengthen trans-Pacific communication and empower our customers to thrive in a digital-first world. The partnership with Harrison Street and AlohaNAP’s expansion will further enhance our ability to meet the region’s growing need for low-latency, high-redundancy connectivity.”

EXA Infrastructure launches Managed Fibre Network offering

EXA Infrastructure has today announced the launch of its Managed Fibre Network (MFN) service to address market demands for increased connectivity and shorter service delivery times. This dedicated offering represents a turn-key solution that outsources the design, installation, and maintenance of fibre networks for customers that do not possess these capabilities in-house or in-region. MFN provides the benefits of dark fibre and equipment ownership including the highest levels of scalability at the lowest unit economics, without incurring the associated administration, technical and operational resourcing costs of in-house delivery. Driven by advancements in AI, cloud computing, content transmission, and big data, networks need to scale to meet growing demands rapidly. EXA Infrastructure's MFN offering enables companies to fill network gaps, connect data centres and cable landing stations, and rapidly scale into markets quickly and effortlessly. The service is currently available in 29 European countries, plus the US and Canada. With over 155,000 kilometres of fibre across 37 countries, more than 500 points of presence, and years of experience in network management, EXA Infrastructure is uniquely positioned to deliver tailored interconnection solutions to specific customer demands across Europe, North America, and beyond. Steve Roberts, VP, Strategic Investments and Product Management at EXA Infrastructure, comments, “EXA Infrastructure has managed networks for its customers for years, so this is the company's bread and butter. EXA's extensive network, combined with extensive experience in managing different variations of subsea services for customers, means that its engineers and NOC staff are well poised to deliver best in breed service across MFN customers. “EXA Infrastructure is thrilled to launch its MFN offering today and looks forward to continuing to support its customers to meet the never-ending demand for connectivity.” For more from EXA Infrastructure, click here.

Data storage insights among the highlights of Technology Live!

Federica Monsone, CEO, A3 Communications, reflects on this year's recently-held Technology Live! event in Munich. Backup and data recovery trends, flash storage innovations, the use of cutting-edge AI in virtual machine environments and more were at the heart of the Munich edition of A3 Communications’ Technology Live!. On show were Tintri, Keepit, and Pure Storage. Showcasing their wares to an international audience of journalists and analysts, the event offered exciting deep dives into new technologies, drilled down into upcoming product roadmaps, and offered a glimpse of future growth strategies. Tintri Tintri, a division of DDN, provides products designed for cloud computing, virtual machines (VMs), and containers. The core product line is the VMstore, a storage system and software designed to simplify management in data centre and cloud environments. At the Munich edition of the event, Tintri explored how to secure business value from AI. VP of revenue, Phil Trickovic, and VP of sales EMEA, Mark Walsh, presented the company’s rational and practical outlook on the future of AI in enterprises, and shared their vision of data management platforms’ role in the success of AI.  The session dove into how Tintri is currently assisting how organisations derive business value from AI-driven data management. Phil and Mark also explained the blueprint for the company's future roadmap to support customers along their AI journeys. They highlighted how the vendor is seeking specialist partners who recognise the importance of its key market verticals, such as the public sector, health, education, and services, markets with technology needs around virtual servers, SQL, VDI and DevOps. As Mark explained, this is part of Tintri’s drive to further boost its EMEA channel partner programme. Keepit Danish-born Keepit provides independent backup of SaaS data, safeguarding businesses from data loss due to unforeseen events, including human error, cyberattacks and malicious deletion. By using a cloud-native, vendor-independent architecture, Keepit ensures data availability even if a main provider’s cloud is inaccessible. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Keepit showcased how its unique data backup and recovery services operate, and how its SaaS backup achieves its impressive security and reliability targets. Keepit’s CTO Jakob Østergaard, CISO Kim Larsen, and VP DACH Michael Heuer demonstrated the Keepit Platform, providing insights into the technology under the hood. Built exclusively for SaaS applications, Keepit is the only vendor-independent cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection, ensuring data is stored in a separate geographical location from the production environment. A deep dive into the platform included its five-minute set-up as well as fast and granular restoration, guaranteeing business continuity through reliable and instant data availability. During this demonstration, Keepit also detailed installations at a number of Keepit’s German customers: Edeka, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Hessen, and ThyssenKrupp. Pure Storage Founded in 2009, Pure Storage develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products. At the Munich edition of the event, Pure’s Principal Technologist, Markus Grau, offered an overview of the company’s evolution. Grau stressed Pure’s unified data storage platform, a platform that can satisfy the full range of customers' data storage needs (block, file, and object) across the entire price and performance spectrum. Grau also covered flexible consumption models, and explained why Pure chose to offer a highly differentiated as-a-service portfolio, and how its users benefit from its industry-leading SLAs and guarantees. The audience were also briefed around the way Pure is empowering its customers across a wide variety of AI use cases (financial services, healthcare, generative AI RAG applications), and how it helps them achieve environmental sustainability goals, reduce energy consumption, and minimise e-waste. The influencers in the room also heard about Pure’s ongoing revenue growth, which has increased by 20% YoY after the quarter ending in May, boosting the confidence to win a future hyperscaler customer. For more from Pure Storage, click here.

BAC secures rights to DUG's immersion cooling technology

Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC), a provider of data centre cooling solutions, has announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with DUG Technology. This strategic partnership grants BAC exclusive rights to DUG's proven and patented immersion-cooling technology designed for high-density data centres. BAC tells us that the needs of its data centre customers are rapidly changing, and that cooling technologies are evolving to handle the increased heat loads associated with AI and machine learning. Cooling challenges include the need for more power, more floor space, increased cooling equipment complexity, and higher operating costs. DUG’s innovative solution allows data centre operators to achieve higher compute densities at world-class energy efficiency levels within the same space. This development is thus able to transform data centre infrastructure designs with lower energy usage and carbon impact. By integrating DUG's immersion-cooling technology, BAC expands its portfolio of evaporative, hybrid, and dry cooling products to include indoor immersion cooling solutions to provide data centre customers with even more advanced options to meet their future cooling needs. "This partnership with DUG represents a significant milestone for BAC," says Don Fetzer, President of BAC. "By incorporating DUG's advanced immersion-cooling technology, we are taking a major step forward in providing sustainable, next-generation cooling solutions for data centres. Our combined expertise along with our global manufacturing footprint ensures that we continue to lead the way in addressing the challenges of high-density computing, in line with our vision of reinventing cooling to sustain the world." Matt Lamont, DUG's Managing Director, adds, "This new partnership between BAC and DUG is poised to revolutionise the data centre cooling market. Our patented DUG Cool design has been refined through production use for over a decade. Our Skybox data centre in Houston is among the largest single-phase immersion-cooling deployments in the world. This agreement will pair our design, know-how, and reputation with BAC's scale, manufacturing prowess, and respected brand to position us to take advantage of a shifting and rapidly expanding data centre cooling market. We very much look forward to working with BAC as part of this agreement."

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres expands into Vietnam

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), one of the world’s fastest-growing data centre providers, has announced a joint venture partnership with VNG Corporation, a leading technology company in Vietnam, for the development, construction, and operation of data centre projects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This partnership entails the continuation of operations at STT VNG Ho Chi Minh City 1 (previously referred to as 'VNG Data Centre', situated in the Tan Thuan area) and the establishment of a new facility, STT VNG Ho Chi Minh City 2. The second data centre building, situated just under a mile away within the same Tan Thuan cluster, is expected to be operational in the first half of 2026. Headquartered in Singapore, STT GDC offers colocation services globally through more than 95 data centres across over 20 business markets and, together with VNG's local expertise and engineering, aims to set new international data centre standards, supporting Vietnam's digital transformation. STT VNG Ho Chi Minh City 1 is an Uptime Tier-3 rated facility. It is also ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and PCI-DSS certified, offering a total IT load capacity of 9.6 megawatts. It is designed to meet the global standards of local and international banks, financial institutions, Internet exchange operators, local, regional, and international network service providers, content delivery network providers, edge computing cloud providers and other enterprise segments. Strategically positioned as Ho Chi Minh City's first carrier-neutral connectivity hub, it provides network coverage from major local telecommunication operators and services including cloud access to leading providers, local leased lines, and disaster recovery workspace. Customers in STT VNG Ho Chi Minh City 1 will be able to establish a direct peering connection to VNGGames and VNG Cloud. A second data centre building – STT VNG Ho Chi Minh City 2 – will offer a development potential of up to 60 megawatts of IT load capacity once fully constructed. It will be connected to the first data centre via diverse and ample network infrastructure, facilitating ease of connectivity and expansion. It will have access to nearby substations, critical telecommunications networks, transportation links, logistics, business, and industry hubs, as well as other provinces via the HCMC Outer Zone Expressway. Lionel Yeo, Chief Executive Officer, Southeast Asia, STT GDC, comments, “We are thrilled to partner with VNG in our venture to build and operate data centres in Vietnam. VNG's deep local knowledge, carrier neutrality, extensive customer and partner network and commitment to technological innovation perfectly align with STT GDC's vision. Together, we bring a unique blend of global and local expertise to deliver a new international standard of data centre solutions, supporting Vietnam's digital transformation journey.” Lionel adds, “Vietnam is at the cusp of significant growth in the data centre market, and we firmly believe that the combined strengths of both partners will enable us to serve the local market with agility and pace.” Le Hong Minh, Founder & CEO of VNG Corporation, notes, “We believe our partnership with STT GDC, a globally recognised leader in data centre operations, will set new service standards worldwide for Vietnam's data centre industry as well as introduce our products and services to international markets. Together, we are advancing the AI Cloud movement to support both regional and local businesses, in line with key trends in the digital economy.” Vietnam's digital economic growth is forecasted to grow 20% by 2025, almost twice the projected GDP growth, underpinned by a thriving digital ecosystem and a booming ecommerce sector. Progressive government policies, increasing data consumption, enhanced connectivity, and a commitment to modernising the nation's infrastructure have all helped position Vietnam as an emerging digital powerhouse in the Southeast Asian region. For more from ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, click here.

Veeam extends data freedom for customers with Proxmox support

Veeam Software, a provider of data protection and ransomware recovery technologies, has announced that it will now deliver support for Proxmox VE. Support for this virtualisation platform has been a popular request from Veeam’s existing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers and service providers. Veeam will showcase this new data protection capability live for the first time during VeeamON 2024, taking place 3-5 June 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and online. As organisations embrace new technology and evolve their business, it is critical they can choose the business platforms and applications optimised for their particular needs. This is at the core of data freedom. Veeam enables organisations to protect, move and recover their data from and to the platforms they prefer, and the company is also committed to extending support for new platforms giving customers freedom of choice. Following the recently launched support for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Veeam is again extending the breadth of Veeam Data Platform, which provides data security, data recovery, and data freedom to backup and use data from anywhere without platform or cloud lock-in to soon also include the Proxmox VE hypervisor. Veeam currently supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization, as well as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer at Veeam, says, “When we talk with customers, one of their most common questions is how they can move between their preferred platforms both in the cloud and on-premises. It is why Veeam champions data freedom – giving customers the ability to move to new platforms with the peace of mind we provide through data protection and cyber recovery. “This introduction of Proxmox VE support extends our comprehensive data management solution to address the challenges currently faced by our customers as they struggle with hard decisions in order to keep their data safe and protected, and their businesses running. As we continue to advocate for data freedom and choice for our 450,000 customers, backup for Proxmox VE provides them with an additional option for the tools and flexibility they need to optimise their data management practices, enable cyber resiliency and accelerate business growth.” Veeam Data Platform gives users even greater freedom of choice to best fit changing business needs for both virtualisation and cloud. Key highlights of Veeam’s Proxmox VE support include: Immutable backups: Keep on-premises and cloud backups of Proxmox VE VMs safe and protected from encryption by ransomware, accidental deletions, or malicious destruction during cyberattacks with storage-based immutability. Or, leverage native support for tape and for rotated drives to achieve true airgap at the lowest possible cost. Uncompromised backup performance: Powered by advanced changed block tracking (CBT) integration and hot add backup mode, Proxmox VE users can now enjoy faster and more efficient virtual machine (VM) backups, minimising disruptions from long-running backups and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. Veeam BitLooker: By automatically excluding unused disk blocks, such as those belonging to deleted guest OS files, this intelligent feature significantly enhances backup performance while conserving valuable storage space. Storage flexibility: Support for all Veeam Backup and Replication backup repository types, including hardened repositories and object storage, empowers customers to easily create backup repositories from any storage that suits their RTO/RPO requirements and budget. Freedom of full VM recovery: VMs from key virtualisation platforms such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or public cloud can be promptly restored to Proxmox VE – and the other way around too, reducing downtime and maximising productivity. Advanced granular recovery capabilities: Effortlessly identify and quickly recover all changed and deleted files, due to a ransomware attack for example, ensuring business continuity and peace of mind in the face of unexpected data loss or unplanned disruption. “Veeam’s upcoming support for Proxmox is a testament to the customer value delivered by Proxmox VE during this time of market transformation,” says Martin Maurer, CEO of Proxmox. “We are excited that so many customers are making it clear that Proxmox VE is the hypervisor that meets their business objectives. Veeam delivering comprehensive Proxmox VE backup in Veeam Data Platform further validates and acknowledges customers’ demands and desire for data freedom of choice.” “Veeam has developed comprehensive platform support over the past few years and is constantly evolving how it can better protect environments of all sizes,” notes Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director at ESG. “This is why providing resilience to Proxmox VE environments – the sixth hypervisor the company now supports – is not only a logical step, but one that should further confirm Veeam’s focus on customer and SMB market requirements around the protection of data, and its mobility.” General availability for Proxmox VE support is expected in Q3 2024. For more from Veeam, click here.

Digital Realty deploys interconnection platform in Greece

Digital Realty, a global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation, and interconnection technologies, has announced that ServiceFabric is now available at its Athens data centre campus in Greece. This extension comes in response to customers' evolving needs to accelerate digital transformation and embrace hybrid IT. The company says that the launch of ServiceFabric, its interconnection and orchestration platform, at the company’s Athens campus solidifies its commitment to providing enterprises and service providers with seamless access to the leading cloud platforms in the region. Furthermore, customers located in Digital Realty's data centres in Athens can now benefit from a multitude of additional interconnectivity services, reducing latency and enabling greater efficiency. ServiceFabric enables businesses to coordinate cloud computing services and interconnect their infrastructure, whether it’s housed in Digital Realty data centres or with other partner platforms. It is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing IT management frameworks, extending access to a global network of providers and services. Delivering a 'cloud-like' experience, the platform aligns with Digital Realty's customers' needs for connectivity, integrating with public clouds, and facilitating participation in a broader global data meeting place. The availability of ServiceFabric in Athens follows Google’s decision to deploy its first Google Cloud on-ramp in Greece, further strengthening the country's position as an emerging regional cloud connectivity hub. Google Cloud Interconnect facilitates the shortest path to customers' Google Cloud resources, ensuring network traffic remains on the Google global network and never touches the public internet, minimising the chance of hitting bottlenecks or unexpected increases in latency. Digital Realty provides the physical meeting place where Google Cloud customers and partners can establish direct connections and optimise hybrid IT solutions. Alexandros Bechrakis, Managing Director, Digital Realty in Greece, says, "Digital Realty continues to invest in Greece to facilitate growth, positioning the market as a premier cloud connectivity hub where local enterprises and service providers can interconnect to the leading cloud platforms. With the local deployment of ServiceFabric at our Athens data centre campus, in addition to the new capacity we've recently added, our customers – and the entire Greek market – can now benefit from faster, more efficient, and more reliable connectivity to their resources on Google Cloud, enabling them to truly embrace hybrid IT." With the addition of the Athens Campus, PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty's global data centre platform now hosts 18 Google Cloud on-ramps globally including: Athens, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Zagreb, Zurich (Europe), Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, Santiago de Chile, and Sao Paulo (Americas). Customers can interconnect directly in these locations, as well as leverage virtual access to any Google Cloud region via ServiceFabric from almost 100 locations worldwide. For more from Digital Realty, click here.

New capabilities for MongoDB platform unveiled

MongoDB has announced new capabilities for its MongoDB Atlas platform that make it faster and easier to build, deploy, and run modern applications with the performance and scale organisations require. MongoDB Atlas is one of the most widely distributed developer data platforms in the world, and tens of thousands of customers and millions of developers rely on its operational database and integrated data services to power business-critical applications across cloud providers. The general availability of MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing makes it easier to use real-time data from a wide variety of sources to run highly responsive applications. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes on Microsoft Azure give organisations more flexibility for optimising the performance and cost of generative AI workloads that drive intelligent applications at scale. MongoDB Atlas Edge Server reduces the complexity of managing data for distributed applications that span locations from the cloud to on premises to devices at the edge. “Customers tell us they love MongoDB Atlas because it provides an integrated set of capabilities on one platform that can store and process their organisation’s operational data across all of their applications,” says Sahir Azam, Chief Product Officer at MongoDB. “Customers also tell us that MongoDB’s highly flexible and scalable document data model is a perfect fit for powering modern applications that can take advantage of generative AI and their real-time proprietary data. The additional services we’re launching today for MongoDB Atlas not only make it easier to build, deploy, and run modern applications, but also make it easier to optimise performance while reducing costs.” The new MongoDB Atlas capabilities announced today enable organisations of all sizes across industries to build, deploy, and run next-generation applications with the security, resiliency, and durability today’s business environment demands. Specifically, they can now: Simplify building highly responsive applications with streaming data. Now generally available, MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing enables developers to take advantage of data in motion and data at rest to power event-driven applications that can respond to changing conditions. Streaming data - coming from sources like IoT devices, customer browsing behaviours, and inventory feeds - is critical to modern applications because it allows organisations to create dynamic experiences as end-user behaviours or conditions change. However, streaming data is highly dynamic, and inflexible data models are not ideal for building event-driven applications that need to continuously adjust to the real world. Because it is built on a flexible and scalable data model, MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing allows organisations to build applications that analyse data in motion and at rest and make adjustments to business logic in seconds. For example, organisations can build applications that dynamically optimise shipping routes based on weather conditions and supply chain data feeds, or can continuously analyse financial transaction data feeds and purchase histories for AI-powered fraud detection in near-real time. By using MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing, organisations can do more with their data in less time and with less operational overhead. Optimise the performance and efficiency of generative AI applications. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes - generally available on AWS and Google Cloud, and now in preview on Microsoft Azure - provide dedicated infrastructure for generative AI and relevance-based search workloads that use MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and MongoDB Atlas Search. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes are independent of core operational database nodes and allow customers to isolate workloads, optimise costs, and reduce query times by up to 60%. In addition to helping optimise performance and cost, MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes enable organisations to run highly available generative AI and relevance-based search workloads at scale for the most demanding applications. For example, an airline company can use MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes to optimise the performance and scale an AI-powered booking agent experiencing a surge in usage by seamlessly isolating the vector search workload and scaling the required infrastructure - without resizing the required compute or memory resources for their operational database workload. Deploy applications that seamlessly connect from the cloud to the edge. Now available in public preview, MongoDB Atlas Edge Server gives developers the capability to deploy and operate distributed applications in the cloud and at the edge. MongoDB Atlas Edge Server provides a local instance of MongoDB with a synchronisation server that runs on local or remote infrastructure and significantly reduces the complexity and risk involved in managing applications in edge environments. With MongoDB Atlas Edge Server, applications can access operational data even with intermittent connections to the cloud. For example, a hospital system can use MongoDB Atlas Edge Server to help enable applications running on patient healthcare devices to remain functional during power outages and connectivity disruptions. With Atlas Edge Server, their data will automatically synchronise once connectivity is restored. MongoDB Atlas Edge Server also supports data tiering to prioritise the synchronisation of critical data to the cloud, reducing network congestion. And, MongoDB Atlas Edge Server maintains a local data layer to reduce latency and enable faster actions based on real-time data. With MongoDB Atlas Edge Server, organisations can seamlessly run highly available, modern applications closer to end-users with less complexity. For more from MongoDB, click here.

Schneider unveils power distribution busway for data centres

Schneider Electric has announced the launch of its I-Line Track Medium Power Distribution Busway - a comprehensive, next-generation power distribution busway which has been designed specifically for use in data centre environments. I-Line Track provides an all-in-one solution to help build more flexible data centres which can meet today’s ever-growing need for fast and scalable construction alongside continuous optimisation. Its innovative design enables flexible deployment and rapid expansion of cloud edge colocation data centres. I-Line Track introduces a new open track design to ensure fast installation and enables data centre operators to keep up with unpredictable energy demands. It also features self-locking hot pluggable tap-off units to maximise the service and reduce downtime, and its anti-corrosion and enhanced class B installation features make it extremely reliable. The open track design provides great flexibility for both first-time installations and upgrades. Adding or relocating tap-off units is designed to be easier by virtue of a smart clamping system. Data centres using I-Line Track will be able to use its intelligent monitoring capabilities to gain unique insights. The innovation collects and uploads these insights in real time to dashboards in the cloud or on the edge, enabling data centre operators to make informed business decisions. I-Line Track makes asset management in the data centre space more visual and proactive, and system optimisation more sustainable. The product is a full end-to-end innovation, and Schneider Electric says it underlines the company’s commitment to supplying sustainable, energy-efficient solutions to the industry. I-Line Track forms a power distribution backbone which enables data centres to meet expansion needs and ensure the safety of the system. Other key features and benefits include: • A unique design which is 60% more compact than mainstream market products, improving the cooling efficiency of data centre environments• A robust, elastic-fit format which ensures a firm connection between the plug-in jaw and the busbar• 10 innovative patents with associated ASTA Diamond certification David Williams, Vice President for Transactional Business at Schneider Electric, says, "As businesses worldwide work together to prioritise sustainability, l-Line Track is set to emerge as a pivotal solution for those looking to make their data centre operations greener and more environmentally friendly.” For more from Schneider Electric, click here.