SUSTAINABILITY
IBM AND SERVICE EXPRESS :
POWERING THE SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTRE
IBM ’ s Andrew Laidlaw and Service Express CIO Nick Ockwell share how both businesses continue to power sustainable and energy-efficient data centre solutions
WRITTEN BY : AMBER JACKSON
Data centres are power hungry , leading to debates over how the industry can operate more sustainably . And with new technologies such as artificial intelligence ( AI ) and cloud computing driving demand , the energy consumption of data centres is projected to grow even further .
This month we spoke with IBM Technical Power Specialist Andrew Laidlaw and Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) of Service Express , Nick Ockwell , about how both companies are collaborating to enhance sustainable data centre solutions .
Transforming business outcomes IBM has been working closely with data centre services provider Service Express for more than 15 years to actualise data centre solutions . Service Express now acts as a reseller of IBM technology , but it is a service provider in its own right , with IBM helping the organisation build customer solutions .
Now , Service Express continues to enhance its infrastructure offerings with IBM Power Systems and IBM Storage to enable differentiated cloud services . As a managed service business , it hosts services and infrastructures for its clients , in addition to looking for innovative
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