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Up, up and away: The future of data centres is in the cloud

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Today, the amount of data stored in businesses globally totals 2.2 zettabytes, that’s over two billion terabytes or the equivalent of 320 billion full length DVDs! In 2013, this data is expected to grow 67 percent for enterprises and 178 percent for SMBs1. With businesses having to store and...

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DCS talks to Chris Johnson, EMEA Vice President & General Manager - Hewlett Packard Storage Division, about the company’s progress over the past few months and its plans for the future.

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There is a well-known turn of phrase ‘you can’t manage what you don’t measure’ which highlights the importance of monitoring for any data centre operation. However, there are many large-scale enterprise or service provider facilities that still do not have the basic...

Why real-time data is at the heart of the DCIM movement

It is safe to say the data centre is currently enjoying its renaissance period. After years...

Software-defined storage: data always outlives hardware

We cannot begin to understand the benefits of, and drivers for, the adoption of software-defined...

HA in a virtualised SAP environment

The major Austrian enterprise chooses SIOS SPS to protect its most business-critical app. When...

Shore up your cyber defences

A recent report issued by the EU Commission estimated that within Europe a million people are...

Öffentlich zugängliche Webseiten für Big Data erschließen von Mark Little, Vice President Middleware Engineering bei Red Hat in London und Tom Llewellyn, Business Development Manager Storage bei Red H

Mark Little, Vice President Middleware Engineering bei Red Hat, und Tom Llewellyn, Business...

SLA im Cloud Computing - Prozess statt Technik: Cloud Computing braucht andere SLA von Diethelm Siebuhr, ist Geschäftsführer Central Europe bei Easynet Global Services in Hamburg

Das Cloud Computing macht eine neue Konzeption der Service Level Agreements (SLA) notwendig: Nicht...

Dell stellt vor: Die zehn besten Tipps zur Betriebssystem-Migration

Der Wechsel von einer Betriebssystemversion zur nächsten stellt für die IT eine...

Einhausung 2.0 - Neues Containment System von Schneider Electric optimiert die Luftzirkulation

Energieeffiziente Systeme werden durch die steigenden Stromkosten immer mehr zum...

Overlay and underlay convergence in modern networking and security

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...

Agentic AI platform accelerates development of critical energy infrastructure

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...

GRDs help future-proof data centres

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,...

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Data centres and the fire hazard: why fire protection enclosures are essential

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...

Don’t let pumps become another bottleneck to data centre growth

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...

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