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
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The increasing demand for IT services has resulted in more and more data centres being built worldwide, which provide either in-house IT services for a single organisation, or cloud-based services for a number of customers. The US Government alone has doubled its portfolio since 2011, yet along...

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The four pillars of cloud security
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Market research firm Gartner described cloud computing as “an incredible force for change”. Cloud is undoubtedly one of the top items on the CIO’s agenda, and with the ever-increasing volume and complexity – in part driven by big data – it is being kept at the top of...

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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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Varonis survey points finger at remote storage

Third party online public data storage services get yet another finger pointed at them as the...

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Online spread betting specialist secures the future with private cloud environment

Spreadex will be able to safeguard the online experience for betting and trading customers around...

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Expert Opinions

It’s easy to be astonished by how fast AI has progressed. But industry insiders are equally amazed by the pace at which the infrastructure underlying artificial intelligence has developed – and the surge...
By Lorri Janssen-Anessi, Director of External Cyber Assessments at BlueVoyant.
By Michael Hunger, VP of Product Innovation, Neo4j.