Online backup: the tipping point?
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Building a business case for online backup adoption should, on the face of it, be a fairly straightforward task. With numerous benefits in the form of reduced costs, scalability and reliability, it presents a far superior option to archaic tape and other on-premise data backup solutions. By Paul...

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Pure vision provides optimum TCO
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DCS talks to Huw Owen, Chief Executive Officer at Ark, about the company’s development to date – focusing on creating world class, sustainable data centre offerings at the Wiltshire and Hampshire locations.

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Shouldering the burden of compliance
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Cloud computing has become a mainstream affair. If you walk into any business, be it a multi-national enterprise or a locally based SME, there is a good chance you will encounter cloud services of some sort. This is a fact supported by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) that reported 61 per cent of UK...

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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

Building data centres for individual businesses might seem a little 20th century. After all, the...

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Critical data centre cooling

One simple step to reducing maintenance time and increasing energy efficiency. By Daniel Betts,...

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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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Videos

Rakesh Parbhoo, Executive Vice President Middle East and Africa at Westcon-Comstor, outlines how the company is marking its 40th birthday by sharing key channel trends and a future-ready vision. Hybrid IT,...
Prakash Govindan, Gradiant’s co-founder and COO, discusses the challenges facing both the data centre and semiconductor industries when it comes to water usage. The company is currently working with two data...
In this video, DCS talks to Teksan at the DCA's 10x10 2025
Andreas Keiger, Chief Revenue Officer at ZutaCore, discusses the AI power density challenge facing data centre owners and operators, looking at the various liquid cooling options available to address the...

Expert Opinions

It’s easy to be astonished by how fast AI has progressed. But industry insiders are equally amazed by the pace at which the infrastructure underlying artificial intelligence has developed – and the surge...
By Michael Hunger, VP of Product Innovation, Neo4j.
In the rush to embrace cloud-first strategies, data security has become dangerously misunderstood, and the result is a fragmented, chaotic environment that’s starting to feel like the Wild West.