Change is afoot in the channel – if the enterprise gets its way
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In an increasingly crowded channel space, systems integrators (SI) and value added resellers (VAR) are fighting hard to maintain a competitive advantage. In the lucrative enterprise sector, the battle lines are fiercer still and the stakes even higher as customer expectations reach an all-time...

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Next-generation traffic monitoring for the modern data centre

Over the past decade or so, advancements in technology and evolving ways of working have caused a shift in the way that data centres are designed and managed. While IT has enabled businesses to do so much more, and allows workers to accomplish things today that were not possible just a few years...

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The convergence of the twain
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Unlike the Thomas Hardy poem, referenced above, where the iceberg and the Titanic met with disastrous results, the coming together of the IT and facilities functions will have anything but catastrophic consequences for your business. DCS talks to IBM’s Michael Hogan.

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Online backup: the tipping point?
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Building a business case for online backup adoption should, on the face of it, be a fairly straightforward task. With numerous benefits in the form of reduced costs, scalability and reliability, it presents a far superior option to archaic tape and other on-premise data backup solutions. By Paul...

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Pure vision provides optimum TCO

DCS talks to Huw Owen, Chief Executive Officer at Ark, about the company’s development to...

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Shouldering the burden of compliance

Cloud computing has become a mainstream affair. If you walk into any business, be it a...

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Back to basics: a round-up of the main types of fire protection

Never before has there been such a wide array of options for fire suppression in the data centre,...

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UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre

Building data centres for individual businesses might seem a little 20th century. After all, the...

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Critical data centre cooling

One simple step to reducing maintenance time and increasing energy efficiency. By Daniel Betts,...

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2013: The year the business case for Desktop-as-a-Service is realised

For many years IT departments have talked about the potential benefits of Virtual Desktop...

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Tarkan Maner joins Nexenta as Chairman and CEO

Nexenta has announced the appointment of Tarkan Maner as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. An...

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Videos

Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps,...
Phylip Morgan, Senior Vice President, Marketplace & Channel Expansion at Pax8, explores the shift from Managed Service Providers to Managed Intelligence Providers and what it means for the future of the...
Luca Simonelli, Senior Vice President Channel & Global Alliances at GCX, explains the move toward converging underlay and overlay models, and how this is shaping unified networking and security delivery. He...
Pete Hughes, Founder and Managing Director of Zalara Tech, shares how building a business in the age of AI shapes growth and delivery, and why success depends on understanding that AI is never a...

Expert Opinions

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.
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...
By Louis Charlton, CEO of Global Commissioning.