A radical rethink of the physical infrastructure: micro-modular data centres
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MANY OF THE INNOVATIONS in data centre design at present are associated with the very largest facilities, such as those being built by Microsoft, Facebook and Google. However, these operators don’t have a monopoly on change. There is growing interest, especially among some smaller suppliers,...

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Do data centres need to waste more efficiently to become socially acceptable? By Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA Executive Director
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THIS MONTH’S JOURNAL is looking at the daily debated subject of energy efficiency of data centres. Why is it always such a hot topic? Well it is true that cost is of course inextricably linked to energy consumption and the better this can be managed, the healthier your data centre operation...

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The 2014 Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Technology Awards

ANGEL BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS are pleased to announce the 2014 edition of the SVC (Storage,...

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Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2014 reflects major changes in the market

IT EUROPA and Angel Business Communications have announced further details of sponsors and content...

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Monitoring, managing and securing SDN deployments

Mobility, cloud, and consumerisation of IT are all major themes playing out in the IT industry...

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Building Channel relationships that last a lifetime

DCS talks to Laurie Harvey, Director, Channel Marketing, NaviSite, about how the company is...

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Running multiple applications in a virtualised environment with Flash/SSD

The disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow....

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Five considerations for implementing SDN: Promise versus practicality

Data centres are high-value assets where investment normally exceeds $1m in most medium-to-large...

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VirtualWisdom: A flash of clarity

If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain...

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Expert Opinions

By Marcel Reifschneider-Hicker, Associate Director, BCS Consultancy.
Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help...
Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...
By Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer, Park Place Technologies.