Efficient storage strategies for virtualized data centers

The compelling cost and management benefits of virtualization have sparked virtual machine (VM) sprawl inside corporate data centers. At the same time, organizations are experiencing explosive data growth. Storage is a critical component of any data center, including growing virtual environments,...

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A new logic for energy management in the data centre

In the last few years, the data centre has gone from a relatively ignored entity to being at the forefront of many of the industry’s most exciting trends. Firms are examining their opportunities to utilise cloud computing, businesses are considering the latent power of ‘big data’,...

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Data centre-as-a service: Why the connection is King

The cloud revolution and emergence of new ‘as-a-Service’ offerings have been at the forefront of innovation over the last few years. There has however, been an equal amount of innovation around naming conventions and it has proven very easy to lose track of the many different names...

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Standby for increased risk of outages
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Colin O’Neill from standby power specialist, Dieselec Thistle, explains the implications of the Ofgem Electrical Capacity Report for the data centre sector and advises on how operators need to have a robust energy strategy in place to mitigate an increasing risk of outages.

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Ensuring continuity of care

Supporting technology at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of the country’s...

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Blending talent and technology to solve the HPC skills shortage

High-performance supercomputers and computer clusters have historically been associated with...

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spotlight ark

Huw Owen CEO of Ark – owner of high security, high integrity data centres

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DCIM and energy management

Underappreciated and invisible? Asks Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics Ltd.

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The ever increasing challenges of managing a data centre

By Glyn Bowden, Founder and CEO Lucr, SNIA Europe UK Country Committee member.

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That old chestnut- Food for thought…  

By Simon Campbell-Whyte- Executive Director DCA.

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Expert Opinions

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.
By Louis Charlton, CEO of Global Commissioning.
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...
By Danny Kirby (Senior Account Director at Cameo Services) and Iain Burton (Strategic Account Director at RTK Group).