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Building a datacenter is a long term project and a project for long time. According to the IDC, the average data center is 9 years old. However, Gartner states that any site more than 7 years old is obsolete. In order to avoid major mistakes and increase data center lifespan, Schneider Electric propose a review of data center planning & design.
We are pleased to announce that two new students from Palestine and South Africa have been selected as a recipient of an iMasons scholarship award to follow the HELHa Datacenter training program! Thank you, Imasons to support our training!
iMasons is an association of digital infrastructure professionals, the builders of the digital age. Our members work at a huge range of companies including the leading hyper scalers, boutique consultancies, equipment vendors, software companies, and co-location operators, and they all share a common problem – they can’t find enough qualified people to enable their planned growth. They want YOU! After you’ve accepted your award I’ll contact you to learn more about your career interests and to help you leverage the iMasons network of professionals to help you find and take your place in our industry.
Even if they have a key role in our life through mails, the Internet, cloud computing, etc.; data centers aren’t well known by the average Joe. The data center industry offers various job opportunities, but who are the people that work there really like?
To answer this question, @Dutch data center association led a series of interviews with various professionals working in the data center sector.
It’s a nice way to discover this “unknown“ world !
Interxion is currently building the largest data center in Europe in a bid to “answer to the ever-evolving needs of the market”.
The Courneuve construction site hopes to inaugurate its first of four buildings by August 2021, on what used to be an Airbus factory were the first French fighters were built in 1904.
For this new data center, Interxion will only use green and renewable energies and has partnered itself with Smirec to recycle the data center’s heat as a means to warm up buildings and housings.
A new data center has just opened in south Africa, this will considerably improve the quality of the region’s server infrastructure.
After Microsoft’s initial opening in Cape Town and Johannesburg, all tech giants are looking to bring their support to the African continent by bringing them a quality cloud infrastructure which is projected to creature up to 112 000 jobs by the end of 2022.
As people are confined at home since 17/03/2020, homeworking tools such as Zoom or Teams have become essential to keep business running, and VOD platforms such as Youtube or Netflix have become the main source of entertainment for the people stuck at home. This has seen an increase of daily electricity and bandwidth usage of 10 to 15%.
But even with this increase, actors in the industry remain confident that this sudden increase in usage won’t create any trouble in the near future as this increased usage at home gets counterbalanced by the reduced activity of bigger industrial actors.
As more than 4600 data centers exist in the world today, here are three initiatives to reduce their energy consumption:
Continue reading “Three initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers”
In their article, João Marques Lima and Abigail Opiah give us their prediction of growth of the data center sector for the next 10 years.
By their estimates, SaaS and cloud services will remain the largest market segment as companies continue to move their workloads off of their company data centers over the next decade.
Data centers in the US and Europe will move rapidly to green data centers and renewable energy sources as the industry is currently estimated to be responsible for one fifth of all global carbon emissions by 2025.
Hyperscale data centers and the data center security market are expected to have an explosive growth during the second half of the decade, as the industry will foray into the Asian, African and Latin American markets.
You can find their full prediction in the article linked below
More and more steps are being taken to reduce the power usage of data centers, as the ITI strives to develop more energy efficient practices with their PUE concept.
In his opinion piece, Tony Craythorne argues that as Moore’s Law is coming to an end, servers must evolve from their 1980s blueprints. It is his belief that focusing on other bottlenecks than clock speeds, such as IO and network speeds, and getting rid of obsolete legacy hardware, could be some of the answers to a more power efficient data center.
You can find his full opinion on the link below:
Thank to Google connection, we are connected to all training schools working on the datacenter facilities. Despite the confinement, we organise sessions of discussion to create a new European project on this area.
When you replace a meeting at HELHa — Haute École Louvain en Hainaut with European partners with a conference call in your office, living room, kitchen… another way to get to know each other and move forward on datacenters training project !
