{"id":4340,"date":"2017-03-21T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acora2021arch.wpengine.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:55:12","slug":"acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\/nltest\/news\/archive\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Acora invited to Microsoft Northern European Data Centre in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a key Microsoft partner, Acora were delighted to receive an invite to visit Microsoft’s Northern campus in Dublin. The recently expanded Dublin data centre <\/a>provides hosting for the full range on Microsoft services including Azure, Office 365 and Xbox Live. This is public cloud compute on an industrial scale with economy of effort, extensive security controls, resilience and exponential scalability baked into the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acora\u2019s newly appointed cloud architect Craig Hurt, who heads up Acora\u2019s technical team, was delighted to take up the opportunity. Craig has over 20 years\u2019 experience in the commercial IT outsourcing sector, having worked with a number of blue chip enterprise customers across numerous market verticals during this time. He is a passionate technologist and cloud advocate dedicated to providing Acora\u2019s mid-market customers with innovative and agile technical solutions to today\u2019s business requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPhysical security is of paramount importance, and Microsoft\u2019s defence in depth approach is visible throughout the data centre in the form of airport scanners, CCTV and biometrics.\u00a0 Access is on a strictly need-to-know basis, and is rigorously enforced \u2013 it\u2019s physical role-based access control (RBAC) for the data centre.\u201d<\/p> Craig Hurt, Acora\u2019s Technical Team <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At this hyper-scale level, data centres are themselves becoming consumables; it is more cost-effective to tear down legacy builds and start again rather than retrofitting the latest evolutionary design into the existing infrastructure.  New data centre builds have a lower life expectancy than most on premise compute assets. They can be torn down and spun quickly (in relative terms) and are incredibly efficient, highlighted by the constantly decreasing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratings.  Microsoft have invested heavily in their global data centre architecture, and continue to lead innovation in this space. There are even rumours that Microsoft\u2019s next generation data centres could be located underwater!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a key Microsoft partner, Acora were delighted to receive an invite to visit Microsoft’s Northern campus in Dublin. The recently expanded Dublin data centre provides hosting for the full range on Microsoft services including Azure, Office 365 and Xbox Live. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAcora invited to Microsoft Northern European Data Centre in Dublin - Acora NL Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Craig Hurt, Acora's lead cloud architect, reports on his recent visit to Microsoft's Northern European data centre in Dublin.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Acora invited to Microsoft Northern European Data Centre in Dublin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Craig Hurt, Acora's lead cloud architect, reports on his recent visit to Microsoft's Northern European data centre in Dublin.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\/nltest\/news\/archive\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Acora NL Test\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-21T10:25:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-24T14:55:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/acora-staging.b-cdn.net\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/21-9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Acora Press Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Acora Press Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Acora Press Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/90ace47b87c23ca035fe2b7bcb298267\"},\"headline\":\"Acora invited to Microsoft Northern European Data Centre in Dublin\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-21T10:25:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-24T14:55:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora-staging.b-cdn.net\\\/app\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/21-9.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Acora Archives\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\\\/nltest\\\/news\\\/archive\\\/acora-invited-microsoft-northern-european-data-centre-dublin\\\/\",\"name\":\"Acora invited to Microsoft Northern European Data Centre in Dublin - 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