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

In this interview, Josh Ewing, VP of eNlighten Managed Services at Namos Solutions, discusses how managed services are evolving beyond traditional break-fix models towards value-led, outcome-focused delivery....
Phylip Morgan, Senior Vice President, Marketplace & Channel Expansion at Pax8, explores the shift from Managed Service Providers to Managed Intelligence Providers and what it means for the future of the...
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...
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

By Louis Charlton, CEO of Global Commissioning.
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...
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...
Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help...