The convergence of the twain
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Unlike the Thomas Hardy poem, referenced above, where the iceberg and the Titanic met with disastrous results, the coming together of the IT and facilities functions will have anything but catastrophic consequences for your business. DCS talks to IBM’s Michael Hogan.

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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

Never before has there been such a wide array of options for fire suppression in the data centre,...

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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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Videos

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...
Todd Grabowski, President of Data Centre Solutions at Johnson Controls, explains how the company has expanded the availability of its leading YORK range of YVAM air-cooled magnetic bearing chillers to Europe...
DCS talks to Legrand at the DCA's 2025 10x10 Event
Ben Tercha, COO at Omega Systems, explains how the company’s recently announced partnership with Revelstoke Capital Partners underscores the growing demand for robust IT security solutions as businesses face...

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.
The data center industry’s power and sustainability challenges cannot be addressed without deep partnership between all stakeholders, writes Tinboat Arslanouk, Chief Business Officer – International,...
By Mona Bokharaei Nia, Ph.D, Global Director, AI/ML Solutions, Tecnotree.