Monitoring, managing and securing SDN deployments
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Mobility, cloud, and consumerisation of IT are all major themes playing out in the IT industry today. All of these themes are fundamentally changing the way we think about managing IT infrastructure. By Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer, Gigamon Inc.

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Building Channel relationships that last a lifetime
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DCS talks to Laurie Harvey, Director, Channel Marketing, NaviSite, about how the company is developing its Channel Partner Program to ensure that resellers are supported throughout the sales cycle and beyond as more and more end users are looking for Managed Services and Cloud solutions.

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Running multiple applications in a virtualised environment with Flash/SSD
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The disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualised and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application...

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Five considerations for implementing SDN: Promise versus practicality
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Data centres are high-value assets where investment normally exceeds $1m in most medium-to-large sized businesses. Depreciation of such an asset is normally upwards of 25 years. In enterprise data centre terms, that means designing today for the data centre of 2040. It’s the same challenge...

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VirtualWisdom: A flash of clarity

If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain...

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Facility operations maturity model for data centres

A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness...

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The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals

Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each...

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Is it time for cold storage?

Data is now at the heart of all organisations and an essential component to every aspect of our...

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Fuel for thought

A Fuel Maintenance Programme is an appropriate response to the low-level but genuine threat of fuel...

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Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business...

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Disability Rights Texas relies on a DataCore Virtual SAN and Hyper-V

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of...

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Data centre managers must help shape future legislation, or stay a “soft target” for activists and law makers

UK data centre managers need to be aware of ongoing work to standardise their sector and get...

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Videos

In this interview, Jack Cooke, Senior Director of Global Partner Programs at Inforcer, discusses how MSPs are evolving in response to AI, security and the growing complexity of the Microsoft ecosystem. He...
Data Centre World 2026
In this interview, Melanie Douglas, Sales Manager EMEA & Global Partner Program Manager, discusses how the company is evolving its Microsoft 365 migration expertise into AI readiness, governance, and Copilot...
Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps,...

Expert Opinions

By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist.
In data centres, direct-to-chip liquid cooling relies on fast-acting valves to regulate coolant flow and protect servers from overheating. Yet across server racks operating 24/7, the cumulative energy demand...
Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...