Monitoring, managing and securing SDN deployments
  • Published in

Mobility, cloud, and consumerisation of IT are all major themes playing out in the IT industry today. All of these themes are fundamentally changing the way we think about managing IT infrastructure. By Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer, Gigamon Inc.

Read More
Building Channel relationships that last a lifetime
  • Published in

DCS talks to Laurie Harvey, Director, Channel Marketing, NaviSite, about how the company is developing its Channel Partner Program to ensure that resellers are supported throughout the sales cycle and beyond as more and more end users are looking for Managed Services and Cloud solutions.

Read More
Running multiple applications in a virtualised environment with Flash/SSD
  • Published in

The disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualised and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application...

Read More
Five considerations for implementing SDN: Promise versus practicality
  • Published in

Data centres are high-value assets where investment normally exceeds $1m in most medium-to-large sized businesses. Depreciation of such an asset is normally upwards of 25 years. In enterprise data centre terms, that means designing today for the data centre of 2040. It’s the same challenge...

Read More
VirtualWisdom: A flash of clarity

If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain...

Read More
Facility operations maturity model for data centres

A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness...

Read More
The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals

Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each...

Read More
Is it time for cold storage?

Data is now at the heart of all organisations and an essential component to every aspect of our...

Read More
Fuel for thought

A Fuel Maintenance Programme is an appropriate response to the low-level but genuine threat of fuel...

Read More
Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business...

Read More
Disability Rights Texas relies on a DataCore Virtual SAN and Hyper-V

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of...

Read More
Data centre managers must help shape future legislation, or stay a “soft target” for activists and law makers

UK data centre managers need to be aware of ongoing work to standardise their sector and get...

Read More

Videos

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...
Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control...
Pete Hughes, Founder and Managing Director of Zalara Tech, shares how building a business in the age of AI shapes growth and delivery, and why success depends on understanding that AI is never a...

Expert Opinions

In data centres, direct-to-chip liquid cooling relies on fast-acting valves to regulate coolant flow and protect servers from overheating. Yet across server racks operating 24/7, the cumulative energy demand...
In an exclusive conversation with Isobelle Coventry, this article explores the significant growth trajectory of Evergreen and the strategy underpinning its rapid expansion across the UK, Ireland, and beyond.
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...
By JP Buzzell, chief data centre architect at Eaton.