Putting security into context
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Security touches pretty much every part of an infrastructure. From the storage perspective there are two key elements to it. Firstly and most importantly for most users, the security that defines who can access what data and secondly, who has the authority to manipulate the storage provisioning and...

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Five disruptive trends facing the European hosting market
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The hosting market in Europe faces significant disruption from trends shaping its development, as customer demand shifts to the consumption of apps, layers of managed services and PAYG cloud offerings. There is a risk that established services could stagnate, with web hosting increasingly low-cost...

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Powering the Cloud 2013 The Event for Europe’s IT Professionals
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The ‘Powering the Cloud’ events in 2013 are setting a new standard in high level ‘thought leadership’ content, case studies and debate. Designed for Europe’s top IT professionals Powering the Cloud, incorporating SNW Europe, Virtualization World and Datacenter...

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So you want to be Richard Branson?
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A short primer on how to put your company on the PR map. By Federica Monsone, founder and managing director, A3 Communications.

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Building bridges of technology

Anyone can build a bridge: the definition of an engineer is someone who can build a strong bridge,...

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Data centre power systems, air conditioning plant: testing and commissioning

The inexorable rise of the data centre in the late 20th Century led to significant uptake in the...

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Software defined storage and Ceph

DCS talks to Bryan Bogensberger, CEO of Inktank, about the development of a...

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Optimising the resilience, efficiency and total cost of ownership equation

DCS talks to Leo Craig, General Manager, Riello UPS Limited, about the critical need to balance the...

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Maestro promises a dynamic performance

DCS talks to Steve Charnock, VP Sales & Operations EMEA at CloudFabriQ, about the...

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Why horizontal scaling is the best way to grow your business

Walk through a full data center and you may be surprised. You may think you’ll find racks...

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When Big Data hits the centre!

Steve Jenkins, VP for EMEA at MapR Technologies and subject matter expert on Hadoop and Big Data...

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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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Videos

Edward Knight, MSP Director at Paessler, explains how the leading provider of IT and IoT monitoring solutions, has launched its first-ever dedicated Managed Service Provider (MSP) program, designed to help...
Will Edwards, Consultant at BCS, describes his journey from professional rugby to data centre project management, as part of BCS’s Athlete Career Transition Programme, designed to address the data centre...
DCS talks to Sudlows at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
Andy Venables, CEO at MSP platform, POPX, discusses the opportunities and challenges of mergers and acquisitions in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) space. On paper, the strategy is simple: buy, integrate,...

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 Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Manager for Subzero Engineering.
By Luca Rizzo, Global Industry Manager at ABB Large Motors and Generators.