Sustainable IT and energy efficient data centre

THE DIGITAL revolution has seen IT’s global carbon footprint rise to equal that of the aviation sector. The production, use and disposal of constantly evolving IT infrastructure have implications for environmental, social and economic factors. As a result, organizations are increasingly being...

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You can’t manage what you’re not monitoring

This might be a mantra that is heard over and over again, but the intricacies of data centre power management still seem to be beyond the comprehension of a significant minority, if not a majority, of data centre professionals. DCS talks to Marc Marazzi, VP International Sales at Server Technology,...

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Datacentre Transformation Conference 9th July 2013, Leeds, UK

Leeds has been the successful host of two previous joint Data Centre Alliance, Datacentre Solutions Magazine and The University of Leeds Data Centre Conferences in 2011 and 2012. Preparation of the third Datacentre Transformation Conference (DTC13) to take place on July 9th, 2013 is well underway....

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Contain yourself for more efficient data centre cooling

Containment solutions can eliminate hot spots and provide energy savings over traditional uncontained data centre designs. The best containment solution for an existing data centre will depend on the constraints of the facility, say Paul Lin, Victor Avelar and John Niemann of Schneider Electric in...

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Securing your data: The role of security in a connected world

Data that companies acquire, manage and secure today is much different to what it was even a couple...

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A very private affair?

Neil Barnett, Product Manager for Hosting & Cloud at Daisy Group plc, discusses private cloud...

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Managing complexity and the importance of real-time monitoring

Why you should take a step back before going forward to virtual and cloud infrastructure. By...

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Changing the way enterprises migrate and deploy cloud-based applications

The data centre can be fully virtualized; the future of software defined data centres is coming...

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Differentiation in a crowded cloud service provider market

Organisations are increasingly looking towards Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to...

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Data centres: Evolution and revolution

Data centres, the heart and nervous system of any IT system, continue to evolve at a rapid pace....

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The cloud models of the future

Matt Davies, director, Cordys, discusses the different approaches to cloud broking we will see...

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Don’t future-proof your data centre: Prepare to evolve

With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres...

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Videos

Omer Wilson, Chief Marketing Officer, Start Campus, outlines the company’s plans to develop a 1.2GW data centre campus in Sines, Portugal – an €8.5bn AI infrastructure-focused investment, the project...
In this video, DCS talks to Edge Impulse at TechExGlobal 2025.
Sashi Jayeratnam, Senior Director of Product Management for Spirent, explains how an unfortunate reality of modern cybersecurity is that it is often put at odds with the wave of innovation that is now...
Larry Meador, recently appointed Channel Chief at Cavelo – focused on attack surface management for MSPs, explains how his work with the company as an advisor persuaded him of the ‘incredible potential of...

Expert Opinions

By Jonathan Dedman, Director at Cloudhouse.
A new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation has reached Europe, and both its pace and adoption show no sign of slowing. According to a new report from JLL, an estimated 10 GW of new data centre...
How artificial intelligence may upend the hardware-agnostic era. By James White, Digital Workplace Practice Lead at Prosource.it
By Manoj Mehta, EVP and President, Cognizant Europe, Middle East and Africa.