The word agile is an adjective defined as ‘to be able to move quickly and easily’. As a word, it reflects flexibility and athleticism, and the use of the word conveys a high degree of energy.
Since the end of March 2020 and the imposition of the stay-at-home order for reasons of the COVID 19 pandemic many if not most office workers have worked from home.
Sustainability as a concept is currently a theme found across central and local government initiatives and in business plans in multiple sectors. But what does it mean?
In January 2021 Maxi-Cool Ltd. joined ‘Made in Britain’. Joining Made in Britain reflects our product innovation and fulfils one of our key objectives which is...
As we are all very aware at the moment the NHS in the UK is an extremely complex organisation and the demands on the services available are ever-changing and wide-ranging.
The progressive growth of the volume of data in all businesses has created specific demands and required adaptions for existing and established data management systems.
The requirement for the UK to be a ‘net zero’ economy by 2050 remains highly significant for all businesses in the UK and is particularly significant for those businesses in data storage.
In 2016 we were approached by a large US-owned insurer and asked to provide a solution to the IT cooling required due to the merger of a small British insurer, in a London office, into their much larger operation.
Server enclosures or cabinets are part of the backbone and infrastructure of the modern world and like so many other essential and basic aspects of the largely unseen fabric of modern life
For the last few years, the most commonly talked about trend in IT is the movement of IT functions to the Cloud. Almost everyone is familiar with the concept of backing up data to ‘the Cloud’, and more and more people are becoming used to using Cloud-based services as well.
On many levels, the idea of having anything other than remotely held data in your business is somewhat old fashioned. Modern life and business is dominated and orchestrated by the complex and global cloud networks that keep us all connected and functioning.
Modern data centres are extremely well designed and managed facilities, where very careful attention is paid to maximising the reliability of the IT equipment they house by providing the best infrastructure and support systems.
The importance of rack cooling for all cabinets is often underestimated; however inadequate rack cooling can seriously undermine the performance and longevity of all the equipment in server racks.
The last few years have seen a range of often contradictory trends in the way that we are approaching the needs of the environment, energy, habitat conservation, and economic growth.
When we think of servers (and server racks) we probably think about work. Notably the type of 9 to 5 work conducted in offices at desks with individuals using computers that both generate and consume data.