Dataracks scoops Datacentre Cabinets and Racks Product of the Year accolade

Dataracks, the leading UK provider of bespoke racks and aisle containment systems, is celebrating after receiving a prestigious accolade at the DCS Awards 2014. The company beat off stiff competition to secure the Datacentre Cabinets and Racks Product of the Year Award for its state-of-the-art 303...

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Building hybrid clouds quicker

KEMP’s new Condor service chaining tools are aimed at those businesses looking to build hybrid clouds, and the CSPs looking to service that need 

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G-Cloud gets more services and easier to use

While Carrenza and Silverbear have partnered to add a membership management service to G-Cloud’s CloudStore, the next iteration - G-Cloud 6 – is already garnering praise from Databarracks for a new Digital Marketplace and its revamped search capabilities

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What a Solid State we store in

Solid state drives use semiconductor chips, as opposed to magnetic media, to store data. The chips...

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Have your platform & eat it too: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Cloud computing stakeholders have numerous challenges to overcome when considering different...

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The storage Holy Grail: Decoupling performance from capacity

The role of a Flash Hypervisor in today’s Virtual Data Centre. By Jeff Aaron, Vice President...

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And the winners are…

The fourth annual DCS Awards took place on Thursday 15th May at the Millennium Hotel in...

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Keeping control of your storage environment: whatever the weather

The promise of virtualisation remains just that for many organisations, frustrated with the poor...

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A new data centre at MMU

Manchester Metropolitan University has introduced a new high density data centre as part of a dual...

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Optimising data centre and IT strategy ‘in the round’

DCS talks to Michael Rudgyard, CTO and Founder of Concurrent Thinking, about how a true DCIM suite...

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What lessons IT managers can learn from professional athletes

Eric Jorgensen, VP of regional sales EMEA at Virtual Instruments, recently trained for a triathlon...

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Videos

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 discussion, David Primor, CEO of Cynomi, and Dennis Boone, President of SlashBlue, explore why third-party risk management is rapidly becoming essential for MSPs and MSSPs. They share real-world...
Daniel Reeves, CEO of The Computer Clinic Bicester, shares how the business has evolved from its roots into a modern IT services provider supporting both consumers and organisations. He discusses shifting...

Expert Opinions

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...
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...
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...