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Datum, the business-class data centre provider, has opened its flagship, environmentally intelligent facility as part of its plans to deliver the most energy efficient and flexible colocation on the market. The data centre, designed and built by Keysource, is located at the high-security QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in Farnborough, Hampshire and will deliver world-class levels of availability and performance with a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of just 1.25.

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Keysource, the data centre design, build, maintenance and management specialist, has made two board level appointments to support its ongoing growth and ambitious business strategy. Jon Barton has been appointed as Financial Director and Paula Mitchell as HR Director.







Jon will be responsible for developing Keysource’s commercial propositions to support its approach to transparency and ensure customers are provided with the best and most appropriate solutions. He will lead… Continue

Onyx has completed a further phase within its highly efficient, reliable and secure data centre in Edinburgh. The multi-million pound project has been designed and built by data centre solutions provider Keysource to deliver resilient cooling and electrical infrastructures whilst achieving an annualised PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of just 1.2.



The new data hall, one of five within the data centre, provides an IT load of 800kW and 84 rack positions with an average rack power…

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 Data Centres continue to be in demand and the trend is set to grow with more consumerisation of IT and the growth in cloud computing. This means there is an increasing reliance on data centres to support critical systems ensuring maximum availability.

 

Another key industry focus is the reduction in energy consumption of the data centre. Whilst improvements in the power usage of IT equipment has become the main focus of the chip and server manufacturers,…

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SCOLOCATE COMPLETES LATEST DATA CENTRE EXPANSION

 

ScoLocate, the leading provider of secure colocation and managed services, has completed the latest upgrade of its data centre on the Clocktower Estate in South Gyle, Edinburgh. ScoLocate’s third expansion project undertaken in partnership with Keysource, the design and build specialists, successfully delivers an additional 1MW of capacity capable of handling high density IT…

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Datum, the business-class data centre provider, has teamed up with Keysource to develop its flagship data centre at the high-security QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in Farnborough, Hampshire. Under the agreement, Keysource will design and build a scalable facility in four phases with high levels of availability and an annualised design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of just 1.25.

Datum recently announced it had secured funding to develop a network of regional, environmentally…

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Keysource, the leading specialist in the design, build, optimisation and ongoing management of data centres, has appointed Tony Clarke to the position of Service Delivery Director. In his new role, he will be responsible for growing the data centre facilities management business, which currently support over 300 customers throughout the UK.

Tony has been tasked with building on the success of the current team by developing a modern…

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Keysource and the University of Leicester have been recognised by the Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards. They were joint finalists in the Facility Retrofit category for the design and build of a high-efficiency data centre capable of supporting the high densities associated with High Performance Computing (HPC) to host specialist IT services for researchers.

 

The GEIT Awards showcase organisations that are pioneering energy-efficiency…

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Keysource has appointed Ross Roberts as Mechanical Cooling Design Specialist as part of the expansion of the company’s technical services team for key projects. In his new role, Ross will form part of the team that delivers industry-leading data centre solutions with responsibility for the cooling solution and other related mechanical engineering requirements.

 

Ross has more than 35 years experience in building…

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GSH Group has completed black building tests at three critical London office and data centre locations for Royal Bank of Scotland as part of the company’s business continuity and risk avoidance strategy.  The testing process was undertaken during a two-month period, as part of an ongoing maintenance programme and was designed to check essential mechanical and electrical systems and building infrastructure whilst minimising operational downtime.…

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Many data centres are underperforming due to the incorrect provisioning of plant capacity for the levels of resilience required according to Stephen Lorimer, Data Centre Design Consultant at Keysource. Speaking at Data Centre World, he explained that lack of monitoring and measurement was preventing some facilities from achieving optimum efficiency because of excessive power and cooling capacity.

 

“With increasing focus on energy consumption, data centre owners and operators are…

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