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Do you know your data centre tiers?

When it comes to assessing the power, cooling and resiliency of the data centre dealing with your applications and systems, it helps to know about the tier classification system. Two...
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Cross-Guard to exhibit at Data Centre World 2022

That's right, we'll be back again for the annual event at ExCel London, taking place on March 2-3, and we're delighted that Data Centre World will be running as usual...
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Personal development within Cross-Guard

Here at Cross-Guard, we prioritise the maintenance and growth of our employees potential and take many steps to help them achieve their goals. The presence of a highly qualified team...
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Meta expands with the biggest data centre in the Netherlands

Meta, better known by its former name of Facebook, received approval last month to build the biggest data centre in the Netherlands, adding to their existing 15 data centres worldwide. ...
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What even is a data centre?

Have you ever wondered what data centres actually do or what they are used for? We're here to help you find the answer. Simply put a data centre is a...
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Cross-Guard going the extra mile

As the global data centre provider of choice our international clientele take us to many places. This year has seen our survey and installation teams venture from the UK to...
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Ada Lovelace – The first computer programmer

Ada Lovelace and her legacy can be seen in everything from modern computing to the skyrocketing popularity of women in the tech movement. But who was she? Ada was the...
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Cross-Guard returns to Data Centres Ireland

As some of you already know in previous years, we had the pleasure of exhibiting at Data Centres Ireland, and we are happy to announce our return this year. With...
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Microsoft is making waves in the data centre industry

The company deployed their Northern Isle data centre 117 feet deep to the seafloor in spring 2018. Located off the Orkney Islands, the project has now reached the end of...
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Making sustainable data centres a reality

One of the leaders in the data centre industry is no doubt Google. Unsurprisingly, their data centres, some of the largest in the world, devour huge amounts of energy. In...