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

Andy, Data & AI Director at Pax8, explores what the agentic inflection point means in practice and how AI is moving beyond experimentation into real-world application. He breaks down the 'empty box' approach...
Thiri Shwesin Aung, founder and CEO of Nyxium, discusses how she and co-founder, Paul Seurin, have built an agentic AI platform that helps energy and infrastructure developers decide where projects are most...
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,...
Luca Simonelli, Senior Vice President Channel & Global Alliances at GCX, explains the move toward converging underlay and overlay models, and how this is shaping unified networking and security delivery. He...

Expert Opinions

As UK data centre capacity continues to expand, ensuring electrical resilience under fire conditions is an important design priority. Fire protection enclosures play a vital role in maintaining circuit...
Why water quality has become a defining variable in AI-era data center commissioning By Jacob Paugh, Senior Director of Global High Tech at ChemTreat.
By Marcel Reifschneider-Hicker, Associate Director, BCS Consultancy.
Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.