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How Data Centre Energy Consumption Impacts Business Efficiency and ESG Goals

Sep 17, 2025 By Pulsant Experts In Pulsant
Data centre energy use has become a critical factor in business infrastructure strategy. Once a background cost, it now plays a direct role in decisions about operational resilience, sustainability reporting, and future capacity planning. The scale of consumption is hard to ignore. Even smaller facilities can draw between 1 and 5 MW of continuous power, enough to supply thousands of homes. Larger hyperscale environments consume significantly more, 20 MW to over 100 MW of power.
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What Does a Carrier Neutral Data Centre Really Mean for Your Business?

Sep 17, 2025 By Pulsant Experts In Pulsant
The demands placed on digital infrastructure have changed. Businesses are adding locations, connecting to cloud platforms, or responding to changing compliance requirements. Rigid network contracts and fixed provider models no longer make operational sense. Carrier neutral data centres offer a different approach. By enabling provider choice, flexible routing, and integration on your terms, they give infrastructure teams more control, and more room to move.
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2025 Data Centre Security Threats: What Business Leaders Need to Know

Sep 17, 2025 By Pulsant Experts In Pulsant
Security expectations around data centres have changes, and it’s no longer enough to secure the perimeter or roll out a firewall policy. Today’s infrastructure relies on interconnected systems, from APIs and cloud endpoints to HVAC controls and building access tools, all of which can be targeted, misconfigured, or exploited.
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Using DCIM to Consolidate Multiple Tools for a Single Source of Truth

Sep 16, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
Modern data centers depend on multiple teams, each using their own systems—CMDBs, ticketing platforms, cloud and virtualization tools, network and server management software, observability stacks, collaboration apps, and countless spreadsheets. Each tool provides important insights, but together they create a complex and sprawling technology landscape.
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Capacity Planning Still a Major Issue for Data Center Managers

Sep 9, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
Uptime Institute’s 2025 Global Data Center Survey shows that capacity planning remains a top challenge for operators. Nearly one-third of vendors identify forecasting future capacity requirements as their customers’ single biggest issue, more than any other concern. Modern data centers face new complexities as digital services expand and hybrid IT architectures shift workloads across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments.
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CFO Reveals: 30% of Your Servers Are Wasting Money RIGHT NOW

Sep 3, 2025 By Hyperview In Hyperview
In this exclusive interview with Ticker's business news show, Joyda Bianco, CFO of Hyperview, exposes a shocking industry secret: nearly one-third of servers in enterprise data centers are obsolete, unused, or "comatose"—consuming electricity and occupying valuable rack space while contributing absolutely nothing to business operations. That's potentially millions in wasted operational expenses and thousands of tons of unnecessary carbon emissions. But as Bianco explains, this crisis represents your single biggest quick-win for cost reduction and sustainability improvement.
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10 Ways to Optimize Data Center Operations

Sep 3, 2025 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Running a data center efficiently is no small feat. From managing energy costs to preventing downtime, there's a lot that can go wrong—and a lot that can be optimized. Discover 10 actionable ways to enhance your data center operations, with practical tips on how Hyperview DCIM software can help you achieve these improvements more easily and effectively.
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Digital Infrastructure Expertise: The Secret Sauce for Scaling AI

Sep 2, 2025 By Robin Ferris Solutions Architect In Pulsant
The past few years have seen the incredible rise of cloud-native AI start-ups, many of them born during the pandemic. These companies emerged agile, experimental, and ready to scale. But as their ambitions grow and their AI models become more complex, they face a critical crossroads: how to manage infrastructure sustainably while continuing to innovate at speed. In the early days, public cloud services were the obvious choice.
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We need to talk about HFC-227ea

Aug 28, 2025 By Helen Munro, Head of Environment & Sustainability In Pulsant
Data centres often hold the fluorinated gas (f-gas) HFC-227ea, traded under the name FM-200, as an emergency measure to stop fires in data halls and technical space without harming electrical equipment. Robust fire prevention helps avoid devastating human, operational, financial, and environmental consequences, but there’s a problem with this particular gas – if released, it has an immense global warming potential.
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Data Center VXLAN Overlay Visibility at Scale

Aug 13, 2025 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik
VXLAN overlays bring flexibility to modern data centers, but they also hide what operators most need to see: true host-to-host and service-to-service traffic. Kentik restores that visibility by decoding VXLAN from sFlow, exposing both overlay endpoints and underlay paths in a single view without the cost and complexity of pervasive packet capture — the result: faster troubleshooting, smarter capacity planning, and confident operations at scale.
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