Intelligent Data Centres Issue 14 | Page 5
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ello and welcome
to the latest edition
of Intelligent Data
Centres where we
provide a round-up
of news and trends
across the data centre sector.
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Matthew Underhill, Head of
Infrastructure, Alfred H Knight, appears
on this month’s cover. The company is a
UK-based mining and metals enterprise
that provides a comprehensive range
of inspection and analytical services
for the mineral and metal industries
worldwide. Underhill discusses his
role in the business and explains how
it implemented a NetApp solution
to simplify its operations, as well as
discussing the company’s priorities for
infrastructure investment this year.
This month’s data centre predictions come
from Ashraf Yehia, Managing Director
– Middle East, Eaton. Yehia predicts the
next generation of data centres and the
changing pace of them, and how the Edge
and 5G are impacting this change.
Inevitably, we turn our heads to the global
pandemic that is COVID-19. We hear
from Steve Bowes-Phipps, DCA Advisory
Board Member and Senior Data Centre
Consultant, PTS Consulting, as he offers
his seven tips for running a data centre
business during the crisis.
This issue, we ask three experts what
is driving the boom in European data
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the subject.
This month, we ‘Deep Dive’ with Timothy
Arnold, Head of Colocation at Six Degrees.
Arnold discusses the journey that brought
him to where he is now, and how he likes
to relax and unwind outside the office.
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