13 November 2024

Dave Swadling, Director of Customer Connection Development, Eclipse Power

The UK’s digital infrastructure plays a vital role in the country’s economic growth. According to Cloudscene, the digital economy contributes around 8% of the country’s GDP, generating over £65 billion gross value added (GVA). No wonder that successive governments have made digital growth a core feature of the economy. As critical building blocks of the digital economy, data centres will need to keep pace with the explosion in power-intensive workloads being generated from cloud computing, IoT, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

08 November 2024

Ramzi Charif, VP Technical Operations, EMEA, VIRTUS Data Centres

As the demand for data processing and storage grows exponentially, data centres are tasked with not only scaling up but also ensuring that their network infrastructure operates with the highest level of efficiency. In this landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how data centres manage and optimise their network performance. From reducing latency to improving bandwidth allocation, AI is helping networks to function seamlessly, enabling data centres to meet the demands of the modern digital economy.

05 November 2024

Duncan Swan, Chief Operating Officer, British APCO

When achieving percentage mobile network coverage in the mid to high 50s is something to be proud of then you know that it is going to take innovative solutions to be able to communicate everywhere. And critical communication relies on connectivity wherever an incident occurs, and emergency responders are sent to work and provide help. Having just returned from Australia this is exactly the scenario faced with both self-contained government LMR solutions and commercial networks unable to provide connectivity across mass swathes of the landmass.

04 November 2024

Stephen Young, Executive Director, Assurestor

The scale, destructiveness, frequency and cost of cyberattacks is a major concern for many organisations, with the cycle of deploying, upgrading and testing the latest security defences all-pervasive. Often overlooked in this seemingly never-ending cycle of prevention and protection are the nuances in what we call the ‘recoverability factor,’ a company’s readiness to respond and recover from a major disaster.

But with 78% of senior IT professionals admitting that their organisation has lost data due to a system failure, human error or a cyberattack in the past 12 months in a recent Assurestor survey, there’s a clear message here that protection measures are being breached regularly.

04 November 2024

Fred Whipp, VP of business development, mpro5

Many industries are turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time monitoring, data-driven decision-making and streamlined automation. With the market predicted to soar from US$714.48 billion in 2024 to a staggering US$4,062.34 billion by 2032, achieving a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.3%, the potential for digital transformation is immense. However, to exploit this potential effectively, organisations must learn how to bypass a series of common pitfalls during IoT implementation and maintenance.