Secure Power

Oct 28, 2024 | engineeringnews.co.za | Ben Selier |Secure Power |Anglophone Africa |Sheila Barradas

By: Ben Selier - Vice President, Secure Power, Anglophone Africa at Schneider ElectricOscar Wilde famously said, “Life Imitates Art”. And whilst this saying has so many real-world applications, one good example is undoubtedly High-Performance Computing (HPC). Like the groundbreaking Sci-Fi movie, The Matrix, HPC uses immense computational power to create and manage complex simulations, exploring digital worlds where programs and systems are visualised.

Oct 23, 2024 | engineeringnews.co.za | Ben Selier |Secure Power |Anglophone Africa |Sheila Barradas

By: Ben Selier - Vice President, Secure Power, Anglophone Africa at Schneider ElectricA key challenge facing data centres today is balancing operational efficiency with limited energy availability. In fact, a recent surveyrevealed that a third of IT and data centre managers are concerned about improving energy performance. In addition to energy challenges, operators are under pressure to expand data centres at unprecedented rates.

Oct 15, 2024 | instrumentation.co.za | Ben Selier |Secure Power |Anglophone Africa

Electrical Power & Protection printer friendly versionAPC’s UPS technology still relevant after 40 yearsThis year, APC celebrates 40 years since introducing its first milestone UPS in 1984. This original model, the 750, used a lead-acid battery to provide surge protection and backup power for PCs, LANs and workstations. However, due to its high development cost, it did not sell as well as anticipated, according to Emanuel ‘Manny’ Landsman, who also co-founded the company in 1981.

Oct 3, 2024 | b2bnn.com | Jim Kalogiros |Secure Power

By Jim Kalogiros, Vice President, Secure Power at Schneider Electric CanadaI recently ran across a LinkedIn job post for a “mainframe assembly language programmer.” What intrigued me was not the walk down memory lane of mainframes’ heydaybut the fact that finding a person to fill this position is akin to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Well-skilled and expert mainframe programmers are now pretty much retired as mainframes have largely evaporated in the cloud.

Sep 30, 2024 | refrigerationandaircon.co.za | Kristin Long |Eamonn Ryan |Ben Selier |Secure Power

By Eamonn RyanThe Pan African Data Centre exhibition and conference was held in Johannesburg on 16/17 July, bringing together many of the most important companies involved in data centres, but of interest to this magazine was the cooling of data centres. RACA Journal was there.