Building Channel relationships that last a lifetime
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DCS talks to Laurie Harvey, Director, Channel Marketing, NaviSite, about how the company is developing its Channel Partner Program to ensure that resellers are supported throughout the sales cycle and beyond as more and more end users are looking for Managed Services and Cloud solutions.

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Running multiple applications in a virtualised environment with Flash/SSD
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The disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualised and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application...

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Five considerations for implementing SDN: Promise versus practicality
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Data centres are high-value assets where investment normally exceeds $1m in most medium-to-large sized businesses. Depreciation of such an asset is normally upwards of 25 years. In enterprise data centre terms, that means designing today for the data centre of 2040. It’s the same challenge...

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VirtualWisdom: A flash of clarity
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If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain peak performance across the IT infrastructure and set a service level agreement (SLA) with their customer, the buiness. Why? Because today’s IT managers work in much more business savvy...

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Facility operations maturity model for data centres

A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness...

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The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals

Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each...

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Is it time for cold storage?

Data is now at the heart of all organisations and an essential component to every aspect of our...

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Fuel for thought

A Fuel Maintenance Programme is an appropriate response to the low-level but genuine threat of fuel...

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Is IT ready to fully embrace cloud apps and services?

Cloud apps and services continue to gain traction in North American enterprises with both business...

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Disability Rights Texas relies on a DataCore Virtual SAN and Hyper-V

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of...

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Data centre managers must help shape future legislation, or stay a “soft target” for activists and law makers

UK data centre managers need to be aware of ongoing work to standardise their sector and get...

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Helping tech experts shape the digital future

Anglia Ruskin University and CNet Training link up to help data centre leaders thrive.

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Videos

Michelle Buckingham, VP of Channel at IFS, discusses the company’s recent acquisition of TheLoops and its recent collaboration with TomTom before explaining how IFS is building a digital-first partner...
In this video, DCS talks to Teksan at the DCA's 10x10 2025
Meredith Kendrick, Product Line Manager at AFL, explains the company’s DENALI platform – with a particular focus on how it supports increasing fibre density demands in rapidly evolving, GPU-intensive fibre...
Rakesh Parbhoo, Executive Vice President Middle East and Africa at Westcon-Comstor, outlines how the company is marking its 40th birthday by sharing key channel trends and a future-ready vision. Hybrid IT,...

Expert Opinions

In the rush to embrace cloud-first strategies, data security has become dangerously misunderstood, and the result is a fragmented, chaotic environment that’s starting to feel like the Wild West.
By Jake Madders, Director and Co-Founder, Hyve Managed Hosting.
By Hugh McEvoy, Senior Director of Strategy & Business Development at Trimble.