Flexibility without compromise

DCS talks to Terry Dempsey, Executive Director at Optimum Data Centres, about the company’s plans to become a major data centre player in the UK market, thanks to the enviable track record of the management team and ‘a more flexible, solutions-based approach’ to the market place.

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On-demand architecture provisions Microsoft’s Technology Center

Microsoft’s Thames Valley MTC helps companies make decisions about IT strategy – from the applications they need for successful operations to how they roll them out enterprise-wide, as private cloud or hosted services. A high density data centre, architected using Schneider Electric...

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Dispelling the flash storage myths

According to Gartner, the market for all flash storage is going to approach £2.6bn by 2015. Given these high stakes and ongoing competition between hardware-centric flash appliances and new software-centric flash storage arrays, it’s no surprise that there’s substantial...

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Go hybrid: why you need a balanced diet of SSDs and HDDs

Cost, speed and reliability - the three crucial factors when it comes to choosing your next data storage system, writes Warren Reid, Director of Marketing at Dot Hill Systems.

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Why we can’t junk hard disk drives

The storage industry is awash with reports on the disappearing disk drive industry and many are...

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Look for something new, you might find something better

In an industry that is constantly evolving it is important that data centre managers don’t...

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Evolving data centres: the transition to 40GBASE-T

Cabling standards have been forced to adapt quickly to support greater bandwidth and lower...

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Digital Infrastructure: what it is and why you need a DI strategy

Nearly 400 delegates attended 451 Research’s annual Hosting & Cloud Transformation Europe...

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10 Gigabit Ethernet: 2H12 Results and 2013 Outlook

By Seamus Crehan, President, Crehan Research Inc.

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And the winners are..

The Datacentre Solutions (DCS) Awards took place on Thursday 23rd May at the Millennium Gloucester...

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Datacentre Transformation Conference

Full agenda has now been announced 9th July 2013, Leeds, UK

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Videos

Ciaran Flanagan, Global Head of Data Center Solutions at Siemens, explains the decision for Siemens Smart Infrastructure to open a data centre technology hub in the Iberian region, before going on to discuss...
In this video, we talk to Wesco Anixter at the DCA's 10x10 2025.
In this video, DCS talks to Teksan at the DCA's 10x10 2025
Alexander Goodall, Founder & CEO at Xela Energy, talks through the company’s rebrand from Clean Energy Capital to Xela Energy, an Enterprise Independent Power Producer (EIPP) and a leading UK provider of...

Expert Opinions

As the streaming landscape evolves, content security through DRM becomes crucial for FAST and AVOD platforms to balance reach with protection.
By Mark Jow, Technical Evangelist EMEA, Gigamon.
Eran Shiff, VP of Product from AlgoSec provides practical guidance to help organisations approach network convergence and consolidate security and cloud functionalities.
By Roland Mestric, Head of Strategic Marketing, Network Infrastructure, Nokia.