https://www.future-tech.co.uk Data Centre Design, Build & Construction Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:44:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.future-tech.co.uk/jumping-on-the-blockchain-bandwagon-how-will-it-affect-data-centres/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.future-tech.co.uk/2018/06/06/jumping-on-the-blockchain-bandwagon-how-will-it-affect-data-centres/ Although bitcoin may be considered by some to be recent buzzword, along with IoT and big data, it’s bigger brother ” blockchain, certainly looks like it’s here to stay. In its basic form, blockchain is an incorruptible digital record distributed across the internet. It allows two users to conduct a transaction, without the need for […]

The post Jumping on the blockchain bandwagon: how will it affect data centres? first appeared on Future-tech.]]> https://www.future-tech.co.uk/cryptocurrencies-and-the-data-centre-part-one/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.future-tech.co.uk/2017/11/10/cryptocurrencies-and-the-data-centre-part-one/ The first part of this series, we take a look at the opportunities and potential obstacles for data centre operators, customers and technology suppliers from developments in the world of cryptocurrencies. The direction of travel in the data centre industry is increasingly away from generic facilities with mixed IT loads towards application-optimised designs. Efficiency and […]

The post Cryptocurrencies and the data centre: part one first appeared on Future-tech.]]> https://www.future-tech.co.uk/bitcoin-and-the-data-centre/ Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.future-tech.co.uk/2014/08/09/bitcoin-and-the-data-centre/ In the last five years we have seen one of the most significant advancements in the evolution of currency. On January 3rd 2009, Bitcoin was introduced to the world and it has since become the most intriguing phenomenon to hit cyberspace since the advent of P2P (peer-to-peer) networking. WHAT IS BITCOIN? Bitcoin is a software-based […]

The post Bitcoin and the Data Centre first appeared on Future-tech.]]> https://www.future-tech.co.uk/cryptocurrencies-and-the-data-centre-part-two/ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:24:11 +0000 http://www.future-tech.co.uk/2020/07/03/cryptocurrencies-and-the-data-centre-part-two/ In the second part of this series we take a closer look at the specific design, build and operation of cryptocurrency data centres. As we saw in part one of this series, there is now an increasing trend towards data centre capacity that is designed and operated to support a specific set of applications. For […]

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