What Good Looks Like

12 May 2021

As 2019 drew to a close, Portman Partners hosted a focus group attended by a representative group of women from the Digital Infrastructure (DI) sector.

Mapping Data Centre Standards

9 May 2021

This standards map is not intended to be exhaustive and is currently being updated to reflect changes since 2017, so please look out for a new version from September 2019.

The Future of the Data Center Depends on Sustainability

2 May 2021

Author: Peter Hannaford, Senior Partner at Portman Partners In its recent report, “The people challenge: Global data center staffing forecast 2021-2025,” Uptime Institute reported that as data center capacity is being expanded, the availability &...

Fibre Optic Cable Election and Internet Diversity

24 Apr 2021

Author: Vinay Nagpal, Associate at Portman Partners The Covid-19 pandemic has exponentially increased the use of the Internet in our daily lives. It created an inorganic growth event that changed everything overnight and has accelerated our transition to a digital...

Your Hotel Room Might Soon Contain Its Own Edge Facility

15 Apr 2021

Author: Prof. Ian Bitterlin, Associate at Portman Partners Ian Bitterlin, visiting professor at Leeds University, former Emerson CTO and data centre evangelist, offers his take on some of the most important and unanswered questions about the edge, and explains why...