Understanding the difference: Disaster Recovery and Data Backup

Backup Software and Disaster Recovery are often mistakenly placed in the same category. Harking to an early era when enterprises tended to run batch processing systems and the working day was 9 to 5, the notion of a data backup seems less relevant for a highly virtualised and always on modern IT...

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Integrating IT Risk Management with the business  

Businesses are now so reliant on technology that many simply couldn’t operate without it. IT has become such an integral part of business that IT risk management is an imperative for all organisations. Gone are the days when risk management was only practiced by a specialist department, now...

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Zenium provides data center solution for BT  

Following Zenium’s acquisition and re-launch of Frankfurt’s newest and most energy efficient data center in the heart of Germany’s digital city in late 2014, the company continues to deliver resilient and flexible infrastructure solutions to a number of clients, including BT.

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Unitrends breaks the 100 TB barrier

Recovery-944S and 946S optimised for unmatched scalability, performance and recovery times; cloud...

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Legal Aid contract

Redcentric has won a major two-year contract with the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), worth in excess of...

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Flash for less than $1/GB

Kaminario has unveiled its K2 v5.5 all-flash primary storage array. In an industry-first move, K2...

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Tintri launches all-Flash appliances

Tintri also introduces VMstack Converged Infrastructure along with qualified partners to offer...

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Basho and Cisco collaborate

Basho to demonstrate a beta framework for Riak KV running on Mesos at MesosCon.

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MapR expands customer Cloud deployment options for Hadoop with Amazon Web Services

MapR Distribution now available in AWS Marketplace for real-time, continuous workloads in the cloud.

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World’s first collaborative data centre for education and research gains momentum

In the 12 months since the first shared data centre for research and education was launched by...

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Seagate Technology to acquire Dot Hill Systems

Seagate Technology and Dot Hill Systems  have entered into a definitive agreement under which...

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Videos

Jason Feist, senior vice president of cloud marketing, Seagate, discusses the findings of the company’s recent Decarbonizing Data report, which highlights the growing sustainability challenges facing data...
At Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025, we caught up with Claudia Ludenbach from TRILUX to hear about the company’s presence at the event and their role in the data centre space. Watch the full interview to...
Simon Taylor, Chairman at Bioscope and sister company N2S, shares a progress report on the importance of biorefining and bioleaching when it comes to precious metals and the increasing importance of conserving...
Chase Doelling, Principal Strategist & Director at JumpCloud, discusses the company’s recent 2025 MSP Performance Report which looks at the challenges and opportunities for MSPs - outlining a strategic...

Expert Opinions

By Aurore Knight, Associate Director, Black & White Engineering.
By Chris Wysopal, Co-founder and Chief Security Evangelist at Veracode.
In a hyperconnected world, where information flows in real time and digital operations are mission-critical, data centers have become the backbone of the global economy. In these environments, energy is not...