Software defined storage and Ceph
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DCS talks to Bryan Bogensberger, CEO of Inktank, about the development of a ‘next-generation’ storage platform, Ceph, and how it is making unified storage a reality.

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Optimising the resilience, efficiency and total cost of ownership equation
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DCS talks to Leo Craig, General Manager, Riello UPS Limited, about the critical need to balance the many, potentially conflicting, demands placed on the data centre manager, and how best to meet them through a combination of technology refresh and well-thought out day-to-day policies....

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Maestro promises a dynamic performance
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DCS talks to Steve Charnock, VP Sales & Operations EMEA at CloudFabriQ, about the company’s progress to date and how it plans to shake up the Cloud infrastructure management space.

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Why horizontal scaling is the best way to grow your business
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Walk through a full data center and you may be surprised. You may think you’ll find racks overflowing. Instead, you will see rows and rows of racks that are only one third populated. The data center is full, however, because it has run out of power and cooling. The new restraint for a full...

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When Big Data hits the centre!

Steve Jenkins, VP for EMEA at MapR Technologies and subject matter expert on Hadoop and Big Data...

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Predict, then measure: Simple rules for data centre success

The increasing demand for IT services has resulted in more and more data centres being built...

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The four pillars of cloud security

Market research firm Gartner described cloud computing as “an incredible force for...

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Getting it right: the best network platforms for the cloud

Steve Roberts, service development manager at Vtesse Networks, looks at how cloud deployments are...

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Managing privileged users in the cloud

While the global community remains polarised around the activities of Edward Snowden, there is an...

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London Data Centre gets go-ahead

The new Gateway Data Centre (www.gatewaydatacentre.co.uk) has been announced in London’s West...

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Portugal Telecom celebrates convergence with data centre launch

One of the largest and greenest data centres in the world has been launchedn by Portugal...

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Oracle packs out its cloud services offerings

Having got the cloud bug at last year’s OpenWorld conference Oracle has used this...

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Videos

Peter Strahan, Member Director at Network Group, the peer-to-peer community group for IT resellers and managed service providers, provides an update on the organisation’s activities, covering the recent...
DCS talks to EcoCooling at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
In this video, DCS talks to Accelsius at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
Todd Grabowski, President of Data Centre Solutions at Johnson Controls, explains how the company has expanded the availability of its leading YORK range of YVAM air-cooled magnetic bearing chillers to Europe...

Expert Opinions

Half a dozen pressing challenges driving the global data centre crunch. By Daniele Viappiani, Portfolio Manager at GC1 Ventures.
By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.
The data center industry’s power and sustainability challenges cannot be addressed without deep partnership between all stakeholders, writes Tinboat Arslanouk, Chief Business Officer – International,...
By Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Manager for Subzero Engineering.