The New Data Centre Boardroom

Author: Peter Hannaford, Senior Partner at Portman Partners In association with DCA & Intelligent Data Centre’s Peter Hannaford, Senior Partner at Portman Partners, describes the data centre leaders of tomorrow and how they must be the embodiment of the...

Competence is the new Charisma

Author: Dr Terri Simpkin, Associate at Portman Partners We’ve all seen them. We’ve probably all been somewhat inspired by them and conferences and professional events often provide a premium platform for them. ​I’m talking about those identified as being a...

Q & A with Portman Partner’s Paul Cutcliffe

We are living through a time of great transition and challenge – political upheaval, Covid-19, the acceleration of digital transformation. You have a diverse set of experiences including many years in the recruitment sector for various industries, but your...

Don’t Let It Pass Them By – By Sheila Narayanan

In this fourth and final article of the series, we move our discussion to the impact that Utility power has on data centres and, increasingly often, the impact that data centres have on national grids and their need to de-carbonise.