Bimodal IT, SDN & IoT: 5 paramount trends hitting data centres in 2016



  • Emerson said that these edge facilities, or neighbourhood data centres, will support the larger data centres providing low-latency content and applications to users or data processing and logic for IoT networks.
  • Reams of data will pour into data centres as IoT becomes more widely adopted, but data will not be the only changing factor impacting the industry.
  • To answer this, data centres will need to find a common language in which devices can interact.
  • According to Emerson, cloud could get more complex as data centre servers are still running below their optimum capacity.
  • The company said the solution will enable new levels of visibility, control and automation by creating interconnectivity across data centre systems.


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Can Design Change Society? Symposium and Exhibition in Berlin



  • Can Design Change Society? pop-up exhibition will run from 2 – 20 September in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
  • Can Design Change Society? It is, indeed, the big question that has plagued the design profession right from the beginning.
  • The pop-up exhibition will present prototypical projects, both historical and contemporary, that have tried to use design for social change.
  • By what means can we approach design change and the future in a new way today?
  • Starting with the high aspirations of Bauhaus to use rational, humanist design to transform every aspect of life, the spectre of social change continues to haunt design.


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Cameron Sinclair interview about humanitarian architecture



  • Cameron Sinclair: I’m the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and I ran that for close to 14 years.
  • They’ve been snaked there, they’ve had a taste of humanitarian work and they would rather starve than work in an office.
  • “And I am never going to win the Pritzker Prize, I’m going to die happy knowing that.”
  • “I will never do a skyscraper in my life ever, I’m going to die happy knowing that,” said Sinclair.
  • Cameron Sinclair: It makes it hard to critique because I’m doing something similar.


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