An alternative to the ‘confusion’ of DCIM
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DCS Europe talks to Steve Beber, Managing Director and Founder of Trackit Solutions, who believes that, for as long as there is a lack of focus in the DCIM space, his company’s data centre inventory and validation services play a valuable role in helping data centre owners and operators...

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Three game-changing steps CIOs can take to lead the enterprise
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CIOs are poised to guide the evolution to a socially enabled enterprise and a digital business ecosystem. But first, they must find a voice in the C-suite, define a strategy and change the conversation to effectively align business and IT priorities. By Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer...

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Why wait to address data centre operations? Start with the end in mind
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Planning properly at the data centre design stage is the best opportunity to eliminate avoidable operations problems. By Philip Collerton, Managing Director - Europe, Middle East, and Africa at the Uptime Institute.

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Take advantage of this data centre boom now or risk being left behind
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European data centre revenue is set to grow by 53 per cent over a five year period between 2011 and 2016 and so with it colocation, the affordable and flexible option which many businesses now view as a better option for their data centre. Renting space in a multi-tenant data centre is fast...

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Building technology protects valuable data centres

Smartphones, tablets, digital TV, exabytes of data transferred over the Internet month after month:...

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Countering the cost of compliance

Controlling compliance costs continues to be one of the top priorities for businesses today. The...

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Fundamentals of data centre life cycle management

The data centre life cycle is composed of five fundamental phases: plan, design, build, operate,...

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SLAs in the Cloud

As cloud services develop and mature and an increasing number of suppliers compete for business in...

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The CIO’s battle for survival

THE APRIL ISSUE of Data Centre Solutions Europe started out by announcing ‘nearly two in...

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Almost half of SMBs turn to primary communications service provider for Cloud

74 percent of SMBs want cloud-based services from their primary service provider, but only 45...

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Danish data centres cut energy usage by 10%

Power management company Eaton has revealed that more than 90 percent of the data centres in...

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RF Code increases power & data centre management

New sensor tag integrates with existing 4-20mA sensors to monitor and measure environmental...

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Videos

We spoke with Tim Mahnke from Aprovis at Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025 to hear about the company’s presence at the event and their role within the data centre ecosystem. Watch the full interview to...
Annabel Helm, Managing Director, Datacloud, techoraco, outlines the success of the Datacloud Global Congress 2025 - celebrating 20 years of bringing together data centre and digital infrastructure...
Lizzy McDowell, Director of Marketing at Kao Data, discusses the launch of the company’s Critical Careers: Celebrating Women in Digital Infrastructure – a new campaign highlighting the stories,...
We caught up with Matthias Haymoz from SDEA at Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025 to hear about the company’s presence at the event and their role in the data centre landscape. Watch the full interview to...

Expert Opinions

By Gary Sidhu, SVP Product Engineering at GTT.
By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa.
By Darren Watkins, Chief Revenue Office at VIRTUS Data Centres.
By Nigel Edwards, Vice President WW Channel Sales & Marketing at Western Digital.