Back to basics: a round-up of the main types of fire protection
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Never before has there been such a wide array of options for fire suppression in the data centre, which while providing plenty of choice, can make the decision-making process a challenge. In addition, there is a whole raft of factors to take into account, including: health and safety, preventing...

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UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre
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Building data centres for individual businesses might seem a little 20th century. After all, the received wisdom is that cloud providers can do it all. For some companies however, that just isn’t the case. By Alan Beresford of EcoCooling.

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Critical data centre cooling

One simple step to reducing maintenance time and increasing energy efficiency. By Daniel Betts, an air intake screen surveyor for ECEX, a specialist engineering contractor based in Berkshire, UK.

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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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Powwownow calls TelecityGroup for conferencing growth

Premium TelecityGroup facility in London at the heart of new data centre infrastructure to meet...

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Cloud spending will address specific issues

Although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is...

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Why argue about bits of cloud?

CSW Editor, Martin Banks, joins the argument between Marc Andreessen and Pat Gelsinger that rumbled...

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SDN – the only way to go

From hype to reality – the industry’s first end to end SDN solution is now available.

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UKFast hires Ex-ANS Flex Pod expert

Fast-growing cloud and colocation firm UKFast has appointed Mark Walker to lead the company’s...

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Disaster recovery - try before you buy

Databarracks has launched a test drive service for cloud-based DR and IaaS, aimed straight at...

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Videos

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...
Data Centre World 2026
Mostyn Thomas, Senior Director of Security EMEA at Pax8, breaks down how ransomware is evolving, what the new Cyber Essentials standards mean in practice, why attackers are increasingly targeting supply...

Expert Opinions

By Chris Riche-Webber, VP of Business Intelligence and Analytics, SmartRecruiters.
By Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer, Park Place Technologies.
As UK data centre capacity continues to expand, ensuring electrical resilience under fire conditions is an important design priority. Fire protection enclosures play a vital role in maintaining circuit...