Fundamentals of data centre life cycle management
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The data centre life cycle is composed of five fundamental phases: plan, design, build, operate, and assess. For each phase, proper care and action must be taken to continuously meet the business needs of the facility. By Patrick Donovan, Senior Research Analyst for the Data Center Science Center...

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SLAs in the Cloud
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As cloud services develop and mature and an increasing number of suppliers compete for business in the cloud sector, one of the key differentiators between suppliers is the Service Level Agreements, or SLAs, they are willing to offer. For customers, SLAs can provide a degree of certainty as to the...

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The CIO’s battle for survival
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THE APRIL ISSUE of Data Centre Solutions Europe started out by announcing ‘nearly two in three companies are undergoing a major IT transformation’. Exciting times right? Never before will the CIO have felt so vital and central to the way the business is developing, right? Well, maybe....

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Almost half of SMBs turn to primary communications service provider for Cloud

74 percent of SMBs want cloud-based services from their primary service provider, but only 45 percent actually are receiving them; represents market share and revenue growth opportunities.

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Danish data centres cut energy usage by 10%

Power management company Eaton has revealed that more than 90 percent of the data centres in...

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RF Code increases power & data centre management

New sensor tag integrates with existing 4-20mA sensors to monitor and measure environmental...

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Stemming the ‘Heartbleed’ Bug with deep visibility into IT environments

ExtraHop has announced a free enterprise solution designed to help security and IT operations teams...

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Watchful Software releases RightsWATCH 5.6

Best of breed of data-centric security further strengthens its data classification and localization...

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Helping to optimise the performance of SQL Server 2014

Nytro server-side flash cards work in unison with SQL Server 2014; deliver performance to fully...

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Caringo launches CloudScaler 3

Cloud storage now easier to deploy, easier to integrate, and easier to use.

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Content Intelligence solves the real information challenge

By Jeremy Bentley, Smartlogic Chief Executive.

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SaaS – A growing industry with a change of heart

By Anna Zetterholm, Marketing associate at Keypasco.

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Videos

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...
Drew Gravitt is Senior Director of Distributed Generation & Microgrid Sales at Mission Critical Group (MCG) explains how the demand for data centres is surging due to AI and digital services and how this is...
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...

Expert Opinions

By Ryan Davis, Channel Account Manager at CultureAI.
By Louis Charlton, CEO of Global Commissioning.
By Danny Kirby (Senior Account Director at Cameo Services) and Iain Burton (Strategic Account Director at RTK Group).
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...