Optimising the resilience, efficiency and total cost of ownership equation
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DCS talks to Leo Craig, General Manager, Riello UPS Limited, about the critical need to balance the many, potentially conflicting, demands placed on the data centre manager, and how best to meet them through a combination of technology refresh and well-thought out day-to-day policies....

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Maestro promises a dynamic performance
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DCS talks to Steve Charnock, VP Sales & Operations EMEA at CloudFabriQ, about the company’s progress to date and how it plans to shake up the Cloud infrastructure management space.

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Why horizontal scaling is the best way to grow your business
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Walk through a full data center and you may be surprised. You may think you’ll find racks overflowing. Instead, you will see rows and rows of racks that are only one third populated. The data center is full, however, because it has run out of power and cooling. The new restraint for a full...

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When Big Data hits the centre!
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Steve Jenkins, VP for EMEA at MapR Technologies and subject matter expert on Hadoop and Big Data technologies, provides a candid “need to know” around the major challenges that Big Data poses for the modern data centre environment.

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Predict, then measure: Simple rules for data centre success

The increasing demand for IT services has resulted in more and more data centres being built...

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The four pillars of cloud security

Market research firm Gartner described cloud computing as “an incredible force for...

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Getting it right: the best network platforms for the cloud

Steve Roberts, service development manager at Vtesse Networks, looks at how cloud deployments are...

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Managing privileged users in the cloud

While the global community remains polarised around the activities of Edward Snowden, there is an...

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London Data Centre gets go-ahead

The new Gateway Data Centre (www.gatewaydatacentre.co.uk) has been announced in London’s West...

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Portugal Telecom celebrates convergence with data centre launch

One of the largest and greenest data centres in the world has been launchedn by Portugal...

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Oracle packs out its cloud services offerings

Having got the cloud bug at last year’s OpenWorld conference Oracle has used this...

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Intuit gets cloudy

Long-time small business favourite accounting software, Intuit QuickBooks, now available in...

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Videos

Chris Derham, Business Development Director – Networks, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, discusses the company’s innovative generative AI chatbot, ALIE, which is available on a global scale for use by channel...
In this video, DCS talks to Lenovo at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
DCS talks to KPMG at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
Helena Fagraeus Lundström, T.Loop CEO, explains how T.Loop designs, builds and operates Data Energy Centers®, realised “on the edge” in buildings with heating needs that match with Data Energy...

Expert Opinions

Steve Clifford, director of data centres, EMCOR UK, explores the challenges of data centre demand and explains why with the right planning, engineering expertise, and risk management, retrofitting existing...
By David Brown, SVP International Business, FireMon.
Half a dozen pressing challenges driving the global data centre crunch. By Daniele Viappiani, Portfolio Manager at GC1 Ventures.