Shouldering the burden of compliance
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Cloud computing has become a mainstream affair. If you walk into any business, be it a multi-national enterprise or a locally based SME, there is a good chance you will encounter cloud services of some sort. This is a fact supported by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) that reported 61 per cent of UK...

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Back to basics: a round-up of the main types of fire protection
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Never before has there been such a wide array of options for fire suppression in the data centre, which while providing plenty of choice, can make the decision-making process a challenge. In addition, there is a whole raft of factors to take into account, including: health and safety, preventing...

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UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre
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Building data centres for individual businesses might seem a little 20th century. After all, the received wisdom is that cloud providers can do it all. For some companies however, that just isn’t the case. By Alan Beresford of EcoCooling.

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Critical data centre cooling

One simple step to reducing maintenance time and increasing energy efficiency. By Daniel Betts,...

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2013: The year the business case for Desktop-as-a-Service is realised

For many years IT departments have talked about the potential benefits of Virtual Desktop...

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Tarkan Maner joins Nexenta as Chairman and CEO

Nexenta has announced the appointment of Tarkan Maner as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. An...

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Powwownow calls TelecityGroup for conferencing growth

Premium TelecityGroup facility in London at the heart of new data centre infrastructure to meet...

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Cloud spending will address specific issues

Although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is...

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Why argue about bits of cloud?

CSW Editor, Martin Banks, joins the argument between Marc Andreessen and Pat Gelsinger that rumbled...

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SDN – the only way to go

From hype to reality – the industry’s first end to end SDN solution is now available.

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UKFast hires Ex-ANS Flex Pod expert

Fast-growing cloud and colocation firm UKFast has appointed Mark Walker to lead the company’s...

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Expert Opinions

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 Iain Bowes, Head of Management Systems Assurance for TÜV SÜD Business Assurance, a global provider of auditing and certification services that help organisations to gain in-depth insights of how corporate...
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...
By Marcel Reifschneider-Hicker, Associate Director, BCS Consultancy.