Scotland: The 'Naturally Cool' Choice for Data
ScotlandIS, the ICT industry body, and Morse, a technology and IT services specialist serving the data centre sector, are hosting the Data Centre Scotland event to highlight Scottish capabilities and exchange knowledge and best practice. Speakers will include experts from Microsoft, Morse, and Internet for Business.
Data centres are the new power houses of the information age, and there has been a surge in organisations demanding first-class data centre facilities providing responsive, reliable and flexible services. Fuelled by underlying infrastructure growth, rapidly increasing costs around management, power and cooling need to be addressed.
Scotland offers a naturally cool environment and boasts very reliable connectivity and power infrastructure, highly-skilled data centre professionals, and a reputation for continuous innovation.
Polly Purvis, Executive Director of ScotlandIS commented : “Scotland offers a compelling location. We already have significant expertise within the data centre sector, blending leading-edge local specialists and multinational players, as reflected in the ScotlandIS Data Centre group.”
Grant Niven, Director of Scotland for Morse said: “Data centres underpin all business operations. However, many organisations are finding that their data centre costs are escalating and that the increased use of IT and growth in data is leading to them running out of data centre capacity. On top of this, many organisations are under pressure to reduce their IT CO2 emissions. Scotland, and a new breed of sustainable data centres, offers organisations a way to address these cost, space and environmental issues.”
The ScotlandIS Data Centre group comprises : brightsolid, EQSN, Internet for Business, Lumison, Onyx Group, Scolocate, Xtraordinary Hosting, Analysys Mason, Cisco, IBM, Morse, Sun, Atos Origin, Iomart and Xcalibre.
Source : Hi-Tech Scotland