Five considerations for implementing SDN: Promise versus practicality
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Data centres are high-value assets where investment normally exceeds $1m in most medium-to-large sized businesses. Depreciation of such an asset is normally upwards of 25 years. In enterprise data centre terms, that means designing today for the data centre of 2040. It’s the same challenge...

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VirtualWisdom: A flash of clarity
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If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain peak performance across the IT infrastructure and set a service level agreement (SLA) with their customer, the buiness. Why? Because today’s IT managers work in much more business savvy...

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Facility operations maturity model for data centres
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A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness and thoroughness of operations and maintenance program. By Jennifer Schafer and Patrick Donovan, Schneider Electric Data Center Science Center.

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The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals
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Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each year. A debut event in Singapore last year attracted the largest attendance of any event of its kind in Asia and now a new event in Frankfurt is set to attract the biggest attendance of any event of...

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Is it time for cold storage?

Data is now at the heart of all organisations and an essential component to every aspect of our...

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Fuel for thought

A Fuel Maintenance Programme is an appropriate response to the low-level but genuine threat of fuel...

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Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business...

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Disability Rights Texas relies on a DataCore Virtual SAN and Hyper-V

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of...

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Data centre managers must help shape future legislation, or stay a “soft target” for activists and law makers

UK data centre managers need to be aware of ongoing work to standardise their sector and get...

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Helping tech experts shape the digital future

Anglia Ruskin University and CNet Training link up to help data centre leaders thrive.

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Cloud computing ensures firms of all sizes can remain commercially competitive

Investment in IT and adoption of innovative cloud services is critical to staying competitive with...

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CenturyLink launches new, globally available Private Cloud service in 57 data centres

Federation with CenturyLink public cloud dramatically simplifies hybrid deployments.

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Videos

Adam Salley, Sr. Director, Solutions Specialists, Kaseya, examines the shift to cloud workloads and as well as the importance of commercial flexibility.
Katie Coulson, EVP & General Manager, Skanska Advanced Technology (SAT), talks about how Skanska approaches some of the most demanding construction projects in the data centre industry, thanks to its new...
Michael Anderson, VP, Business Development at Abstract Security, discusses the launch of the company’s PAINT Partner Program (Partnerships, Alliances, and INTegrations), designed to empower resellers, MSPs,...
Adam Salley, Sr. Director, Solutions Specialists, Kaseya, looks at consolidated data protection - endpoints and SaaS.

Expert Opinions

Nick Rogers, CEO of Exacta Technologies, explores the growing importance for businesses to prioritise on-premises over cloud storage in not only reducing hefty management costs but to ensure complete control...
By Dave King, Product Engineering Architect at Cadence.
By Joel Carusone, SVP Data and AI at NinjaOne.
By Kate Steele, Director, EMEA HPC/AI at Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group.