Efficiency is the watch word
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The recent Datacentre Transformation Conference was a great opportunity to understand the challenges facing data centre designers, owners and operators and the many initiatives that are seeking to help address them.

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Decision time for managed services  
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Which way forward for managed services in Europe? As an IT Europa report recently revealed, Europe presents a patchy picture of managed services provision.

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The future of data centre power protection  
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The demands on the data centre are becoming increasingly onerous; sustaining the increasing speed of change, providing flexibility to ever changing load requirements, achieving various industry efficiency metrics while maintaining effective design resilience are just some of the essential...

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Repair or replace?
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The challenge of keeping the temperature under control. By David Hearne, Sales Director, DencoHappel.

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Data centres – blowing hot air on cold hard cash

Energy costs in the UK are set to rise exponentially. In December 2014, the Committee on Climate...

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The UPS role in the Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System  

Data centre availability is critical to the success or even survival of most organisations today....

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The next step in modular data centre design

Jeremy Hartley, Managing Director of Dataracks, takes a critical look at data centre modularity,...

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Five steps for a modern monitoring framework

We hear from a lot of companies that they already monitor their IT performance. They say they...

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SSL and a tale of two security truths  

If you’ve noticed a little lock on your web browser then you’ve used SSL to secure your...

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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,...
Oliver Simonnet, Lead Cybersecurity Researcher at CultureAI, discusses the findings of the company’s The State of Enterprise AI Usage: The Illusion of Control report, which reveals a growing gap between how...
Daniel Reeves, CEO of The Computer Clinic Bicester, shares how the business has evolved from its roots into a modern IT services provider supporting both consumers and organisations. He discusses shifting...

Expert Opinions

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.
By Marcel Reifschneider-Hicker, Associate Director, BCS Consultancy.