As our demand for online services grows rapidly, data centres must make vital changes to meet this demand sustainably and reduce the footprint of their cloud services sooner than later. According to a recent report by International Data Center (IDC), cloud computing can potentially eliminate 1 billi...

June is proving to be a big month for Interact. Not only have we been shortlisted as Sustainable Project of the Year for our work with CEDaCI at the CRN awards, our team has managed to scoop a bronze, silver and gold at the Globee IT World Awards out of Silicon Valley. We talk to Director of Strateg...

Interact was born from a two-year research project between the University of East London and Techbuyer, which generated an IEEE paper that established the performance and energy draw of server and upgrade configurations. The tool uses these detailed findings and server configurations to generate its...

Interact launched on January 12th, 2021 to help data centers optimize their servers' energy consumption and reduce their overall environmental impact. Since the launch, we have been able to present our research at several events, make various amendments to enhance the tool, and provide services ...

Rich Kenny is Managing Director at Interact. He is also Group Sustainability and Research Director at Techbuyer, an influencer for the Northern Intelligence forums, and an expert in leading technical, research and innovation projects. We caught up with Rich to ask how he got into the IT in...