Openreach and major utilities to trial fibre optic sensing for water and gas leak detection
14 August 2025
Openreach, the UK’s leading fibre optic broadband provider, has announced collaborations with several prominent partners to test innovative methods for detecting water and gas leaks by utilising its existing fibre optic infrastructure.
These trials aim to leverage fibre sensing technology — originally developed for earthquake monitoring and subsea cable protection — to provide real-time, early warning signals for underground utility networks.
Find out more Mayflex announces new partnership with Schleifenbauer to enhance data centre solutions
04 August 2025
Mayflex has announced a new distribution agreement with Schleifenbauer, a Netherlands-based producer of intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) and energy management systems.
This collaboration marks a significant milestone for Mayflex’s Elevate brand, reinforcing its commitment to delivering ‘Future Faster’ by providing innovative, efficient, and scalable technologies tailored for high-performance computing (HPC) and data centre markets.
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As AI gains momentum, we’ll all be talking more about “neural edge”
04 July 2025
Peter Wilcock, VP, Latos Data Centres
At Nvidia’s GTC developer conference in March, CEO Jensen Huang heralded a trillion-dollar boom in data centres, to underpin ever-more sophisticated AIs. He declared that “the data centre is no longer a warehouse for computing, it is the engine of AI.”
This transformation is already underway. Since 2021, sales of conventional CPUs have slumped by 80%. By contrast, demand for the GPUs needed for AI is accelerating, and expected to grow by almost 30% every year.
Find out more The new backbone of storage
04 July 2025
Kubernetes has firmly established itself as the cornerstone of enterprise modernisation. Understanding its storage capabilities and challenges is essential…
Kubernetes is no longer an experimental technology; it’s firmly entrenched as the backbone of enterprise modernisation.
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