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Software defined data centers, with hybrid cloud, eases the challenge  

What makes the Software Defined Data Centre so important? Why should IT professionals be paying attention to software defined data centre in context of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud?. By Paul Brook, SNIA Europe UK Country Committee member, Dell.

Efficiency is the watch word

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.

Decision time for managed services  

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

The future of data centre power protection  

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...

Repair or replace?

The challenge of keeping the temperature under control. By David Hearne, Sales Director,...

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...

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....

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...

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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