Finding your way through the maze of energy efficiency legislation  
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At times it feels like there are calls from all directions driving data centres to be ‘energy efficient’ – from the European Commission Climate Action’s “20-20-20” targets to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s ESOS (Energy Savings Opportunity...

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Building a capacity planning capability in line with business objectives  
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DCS Europe talks to Peter Duffy, CTO of Sumerian, focusing on the importance of capacity planning – both in terms of the benefits it can bring but, just as importantly, the approach required to a successful implementation.

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How can organisations ensure their branch and remote office storage doesn’t leave them out on a limb?  
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It can be easy to forget just how significant branch and remote offices are to many organisations. All too often, an IT team’s storage priorities are focused on the data centre and the head office. But if businesses want to succeed and thrive, the centre cannot hold all their attention....

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Using the Internet of Things to manage your data centre
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In the last year, much has been made of the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT). What few data centre owners and operators realise is that they have a working example of the IoT just waiting to be exploited. In this article Dave Wolfenden of Mafi Mushkila talks about how data centre sensor...

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Big Data: separating the hype from the major opportunities

‘Big Data’ is not a new concept. First coined in a 1998 paper, its roots can be traced...

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Transform your WAN for cloud deployments

Cloud service adoption is accelerating at a vast pace. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alone will...

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spotlightmay15 (Magazine article)

Dave Woflenden MD, Mafi Mushkila

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Your next data centre will be a product

By Daniel Bizo, Senior Analyst, Datacentre Technologies, 451 Research.

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SNIA and flash

By members of SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initiative.

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Mice and Men  

By Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA Executive Director.

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Why the need for recognised Cloud certification?

By Richard Pharro, CEO of APM Group Limited and member of the Cloud Industry Forum.

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Name change reflects dynamic growth

The Cloud Ethernet Forum marked a coming of age last month with a change of name to OpenCloud...

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Videos

Dame Dawn Childs, Chief Executive of Pure Data Centres, explains how the company’s belief that data centres can be the catalyst for urban regeneration, employment and positive environmental change is borne...
Javier Cavada, President & CEO EMEA, Mitsubishi Power, discusses the many energy-related challenges facing the data centre industry as it tries to address the apparently contradictory demands of AI and the...
Ciaran Flanagan, Global Head of Data Center Solutions at Siemens, explains the decision for Siemens Smart Infrastructure to open a data centre technology hub in the Iberian region, before going on to discuss...
Daniel Thorpe, JLL's Head of Data Center Research, EMEA, outlines the findings of the company’s new "The Future of Quantum Real Estate" report, which details how quantum computing is emerging as the next...

Expert Opinions

Dr Richard Lewis from Prysmian highlights the vital importance of power infrastructure.
By Matt Powers, vice president of technology & support services, Wesco.
By Rosemary J Thomas, Senior Technical Consultant, AI Labs, Version 1.