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

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,...
Pete Hughes, Founder and Managing Director of Zalara Tech, shares how building a business in the age of AI shapes growth and delivery, and why success depends on understanding that AI is never a...
Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control...
Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at TeamViewer, discusses how the company is using its Tia (TeamViewer Intelligent Assistant) and a ‘shift left’ approach to move IT support from reactive to more...

Expert Opinions

Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre...
By Fabrizio Landini, Global Data Centre Segment Leader, Hitachi Group.
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist.
By René Klein, Executive Vice President, Europe at Westcon-Comstor.