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NOTE LYNCHPIN MEDIA TEAM MANAGEMENT The airline’s Chief Information Officer, Ramesh Venkat, talks us through the main benefits of the Equinix solution and how it ensures crucial uptime for customers. As always, there’s also a round-up of all the latest news in the data centre sector, while our ‘intelligent’ brands section looks at what’s new in operations, infrastructure, power and cooling and facilities. In our first feature this month, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Project Manager, Green IT Amsterdam, talks to us about why the data centre and energy sectors must be brought closer together and start talking the same language to spark real change. We also have some great insight from Justin Jenkins, CEO of UK data centre operator NGD, who tells us about life inside and outside the office, in this month’s Deep Dive. I hope you enjoy the magazine and if you’d like to contribute to any future issues please do not hesitate to contact me by emailing jess@lynchpinmedia.co.uk 34 Issue 02 Stuart Lynch stuart@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 7514 807 117 Mark Bowen mark@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2225 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES AND I NTELLIGENT CISO Jess Phillips jess@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 203 890 4069 EDITOR, I NTELLIGENT CIO EUROPE Alix Pressley alix@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2225 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO AFRICA Paul Rogers paul@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3890 4084 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO INDIA Partha Srinivasan partha@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +91 909 681 6957 DESIGN HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Pippa Sanderson pippa@lynchpinmedia.co.uk HEAD OF DIGITAL SERVICES Charles Brandreth charles@lynchpinmedia.co.uk WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER Josh Peace josh@lynchpinmedia.co.uk JUNIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Lorna Murphy lorna@lynchpinmedia.co.uk SALES & MARKETING COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR SALES MANAGER Michal Zylinski michal@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +48 883 746 917 Amy Poole amy@lynchpinmedia.co.uk 0211 883 52 971+ SALES EXECUTIVE Carlos Moreira carlos@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 738 8933276 MARKETING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER Curtis Driscoll curtis@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2536 COUNTRY PARTNERS In this month’s The Edge feature, we find out about the benefits of utilising the skills of a data centre commissioning specialist and how Building Information Modelling (BIM) is helping to build the sustainable data centres of the future. Meanwhile, Ehab Kanary, Vice President of Enterprise, Middle East and Africa, discusses the Digital Transformation that data centres will undergo in 2019 in our Data Centre Predictions feature, MANAGING PARTNER EDITORIAL while industry experts offer some best practice advice for managing outdated equipment in our Editor’s Question. Energy efficient solutions are often a key consideration for data centre decision- makers as the industry continues to become more environmentally aware. Richard Judd richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 7534 132 966 MANAGING EDITOR AND EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO ME, ICIO KUWAIT AND INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS ello and welcome to latest edition of Intelligent Data Centres. In this month’s cover story, we explore how flydubai is now in a stronger position to drive Digital Transformation after deploying its global booking platform on Platform Equinix. H MANAGING PARTNER COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Rajesh Gandhi rajesh@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +965 6601 3056 COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Feroz Tapiya feroz@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +965 6616 6052 COUNTRY MANAGER – INDIA Partha Srinivasan partha@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +91 909 681 6957 Lynchpin Media © 2019 Jess Phillips Editor Intelligent Data Centres is a Lynchpin Media publication for IT data centre professionals. If you wish to subscribe for regular copies then please email info@lynchpinmedia.co.uk Lynchpin Media is a boutique publisher registered in the United Kingdom. Company number 8096230. 5 Burnside Court, Leominster Enterprise Park, Herefordshire, HR6 0LX www.intelligentdatacentres.com