Battery backup and generator systems are used everywhere from hospitals and IT datacentres to small UPS systems for backing up office PCs. PASS managing director Barry Atkins asserts that batteries need regular maintenance and checking to ensure that they are working correctly, that

Modern data centres are complex systems that need to operate within tolerances if their owners and/or users are to extract maximum efficiency and the best possible value from the IT infrastructure they contain. Dave Wolfenden from Mafi Mushkila explains

The beginning of 2015 sees the launch of a new distribution agreement between Finning UK and Ireland and Baselayer, a provider of modular data centre infrastructure. The new agreement builds on Finning’s current offering within the data centre industry, which includes the supply

In implementing and operating every data centre, from the smallest to the largest, IT professionals face a wide and ever-expanding range of challenges. Putting in place a coherent physical and power infrastructure, made up of elements that work harmoniously together is, says Paul

Facility teams and data centre managers know that to survive in a world where low cost cloud infrastructure dominates, they need to cut costs to the bone. The hardest thing to cut has always been the cost of cooling. As air temperatures creep

David Hughes, head of ABB’s Power Products division in UK and Ireland, takes a look at the EU’s tightening ecodesign legislation and explains how ABB’s amorphous core dry-type transformers already exceed the energy efficiency demands for Tier 2 standards that will be introduced