Ian Dixon
Ian is Vice President Operations of Colt Data Centre Services and is responsible for managing the operations of the Data Centre and Node estate for Colt Telecommunications. He has over 25 years experience in the data centre and telecommunications industry and has been engaged in delivering data centre services to customers since 1997. Ian has held various senior roles at Colt over the last 10 years, including heading up the technical design team that developed Colt’s Modular Datacentre offering and for managing UK sales for data centres and managed services. Previously he was Product Director at City Reach International, a data centre start up. Prior to this he managed application and web hosting line of business at BT responsible for bringing their first data centre hosting offerings to market.
Driven by the European Commission, companies from across different sectors are required to measure their corporate footprint. The main objective of this drive is to push environmental management and the reduction of CO2 emissions, so corporate sustainability becomes part of the DNA of European companies. Corporate sustainability is not only an operational issue; it has become [...] Read more
One of the biggest challenges facing todays CIO is improving efficiency – or as it is commonly known - Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). PUE has become the de facto standard for measuring energy efficiency, environmental impact, and the cost of running a modern data centre. It’s the metric of choice, and for data centre managers, the [...] Read more
Many of Europe’s data centres were designed and built 10+ years ago. A time when energy wasn’t very expensive and data centres were kept so cold, some may have considered storing their milk along with their servers. Today, new data centres are designed with efficiency at the core – they are recyclable, can heat whole towns [...] Read more
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