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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
This year Mental Health Awareness Week is taking place from the 15th until the 21st of May and there are many ways you can get involved! Anxiety is the theme...

The First Data Centre in Space
Over 2 years ago for the first time humanity deployed a conventional data centre in space. The HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 – a set of HPE Edgeline Converged EL4000 Edge and...

The History of The First Telephone Call
On March 10th, 1876 the first telephone call was recorded. The first ever words on the telephone were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone to his assistant...

Happy Easter from all of us at Cross-Guard!
All the staff at Cross-Guard are wishing you a blessed and memorable Easter. We hope you have a fantastic break and enjoy the bank holiday. We want to say a...

Jean Sammet- Women in Computing
Jean E. Sammet, born on March 23 1928 in New York was a successful programmer who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962 and was one of the developers of...

Microsoft to replicate data centre battery sharing project worldwide
Microsoft is set to replicate a worldwide project that has been tried and tested in the company's data centre in Ireland. The scheme, announced in 2022, uses a lithium-ion battery energy...

Data Centre used to heat up a 25-metre swimming pool to cut energy bills
Exmouth Leisure Centre's 25-metre swimming pool is now heated by an on-site data centre run by Deep Green. The data centre has been described as washing machine-sized and is contributing...

The History of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working...

The future of the Data Centre Industry
What is a Data Centre? Data Centre is a facility that provides shared access to applications and data using a complex network, compute, and storage infrastructure. Data Centres contain physical...

How data centres are supporting the gaming industry
The gaming industry has been in a period of significant transformation for the last decade. Millions of fans all over the world take part in online gaming and the industry...