Featuring on this month ’ s cover is Tommy Minyard , Ph . D ., TACC ’ s Director of Advanced Computing Systems , who explains how GRC ’ s liquid immersion cooling solution addressed its concerns , enabled it to overcome obstacles , reduce its backlog and accomplish its goals .

A hot topic of conversation this issue can be found on page 29 , where experts discuss whether the development of future data centres should be defined by their ecological sustainability . We receive some interesting input from Arun Shenoy , CMO & SVP Sales , Serverfarm ; Jim Steed , Managing Director , Nutanix ANZ ; and Sam Lim , Sales Director , Outdoor Wireless , North Asia and SEA & OEM Lead , Asia Pacific .

A popular discussion point currently is data centre heat reuse and on page 35 , Jim Weynand , EVP , Business Development at GRC , discusses how data centres are using innovative techniques

to capitalise on excess thermal energy – creating more opportunities for sustainable development .

Elsewhere in the magazine , Sam Prudhomme , President , Accelevation LLc , offers his expert opinion on the skills shortage and says that recent mass layoffs could provide a way to boost the industry ’ s headcount , foster diversity and lower the average industry age .

Digital twins remain an area of intrigue and this month , we explore how using this technology can revolutionise data centre power management . Read about this in more detail on page 44 , where Dave King , Senior Product Marketing Manager , Cadence , discusses this further .

Towards the back of the magazine , we shine a light on data centre security as Nick Smith , Business Development Manager , at Genetec , urges organisations to focus on maximising data centre uptime by unifying security systems . This can be found on page 62 .

I hope you enjoy the read and if you ’ d like to contribute to any future editions , please don ’ t hesitate to get in touch at alix @ lynchpinmedia . com

Alix Pressley Managing Editor www . intelligentdatacentres . com

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