29 June 2020 EC Lab’s scientific research under the EU Commission funded EURECA project was referenced by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in their Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for data centres, server rooms, and cloud services, in June 2020. In the report, the criteria set aims to help public authorities ensure that […]
20 April 2020 EC lab’s article titled: “Why future-proofing infrastructure is more important than ever” was published by Techerati on 17 April 2020. The article highlights the significance of digital transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic situation and the concerns with the ageing technology nowadays. Additionally, ways to make tomorrow’s technology more durable and sustainable were […]
10 April 2020 On 9th April 2020, Nour Rteil (EC Lab’s KTP Associate) presented some preliminary research findings on “Performance and Energy Draw of New vs Reman Servers”. The research work discussed in the webinar is ongoing as part of the KTP project between EC Lab and Techbuyer. Overall the project aims to benchmark the […]
30 March 2020 Dr Umaima Haider (EC lab Research Fellow) was invited as a guest speaker to a podcast hosted by Origina – a world’s leading, independent, third party IBM software support specialist company. In the podcast, Dr Haider discussed the importance of digital transformation during the current challenging environment. The consequences of ageing technology […]
2 March 2020 ALJazeera impact team published an article titled: “Emissions possible: Streaming music swells carbon footprints”, on 28th February 2020. The team interviewed Dr Rabih Bashroush (EC Lab Director) in relation to the energy consumption of streaming media. He also discussed some of the opportunities that we could adopt to reduce energy consumption while enjoying […]
24 February 2020 Like every year, EC Lab will be participating at Data Centre World (DCW) London conference which will take place at Excel Exhibition Centre. On 11th March 2020, Dr Haider will be on an expert panel titled, “STEM – Inspiration from the best”, at 11:45am. The panel will discuss inspiration from those with […]
18 February 2020 Dr Haider of EC Lab is invited as a guest speaker on an expert panel titled, “Cloud Computing Use Cases: Big Data and Cyber Security”, at IT Forum which will take place in Istanbul (Turkey), on 3rd March 2020. The panel will feature other IT experts from Uptime Institute, Unilever and Turkish Government. […]
7 February 2020 EC lab had the pleasure to host the inaugural lecture of Lex Coors on 6 February 2020 at UEL’s USS campus, where he delivered his lecture on ‘The Connected Community’. Lex is Chief Data Centre Technology & Engineering Officer at Interxion and newly appointed Visiting Fellow at the University of East London. […]
3 October 2019 Techerati published EC lab’s article titled: “Conspicuous cloud consumption in the digital era”. The article discusses the rise in ICT energy consumption in line with the growth in demand along with the latest research into data centre sustainability. For further information about this topic, please attend our talk on the same area […]
23 September 2019 On 14thNovember 2019, Dr Haider (EC Lab Research Fellow) will give a talk on “Digital era – what impact will it have on our data centres?”, at Data Centre World (DCW) Frankfurt which will take place at Messe Frankfurt, Germany. The talk will be within the Energy Efficiency, Cost Management and DCIM […]