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
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A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness and thoroughness of operations and maintenance program. By Jennifer Schafer and Patrick Donovan, Schneider Electric Data Center Science Center.

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The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals
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Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each year. A debut event in Singapore last year attracted the largest attendance of any event of its kind in Asia and now a new event in Frankfurt is set to attract the biggest attendance of any event of...

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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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Cloud computing ensures firms of all sizes can remain commercially competitive

Investment in IT and adoption of innovative cloud services is critical to staying competitive with...

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CenturyLink launches new, globally available Private Cloud service in 57 data centres

Federation with CenturyLink public cloud dramatically simplifies hybrid deployments.

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Videos

Michael Akinla, Business Manager UK / Ireland / Nordics at Panduit, explains that, as increasing numbers of data centres are being developed with GPU-based compute as a key growth opportunity, factoring in...
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...
At Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025, we spoke with Oliver Callies from Semsafe to hear about the company’s involvement in the event and their perspective on the data centre industry. Watch the full...
Prakash Govindan, Gradiant’s co-founder and COO, discusses the challenges facing both the data centre and semiconductor industries when it comes to water usage. The company is currently working with two data...

Expert Opinions

By Asha Palmer, SVP of Compliance Solutions at Skillsoft.
New report uncovers identity security risks, low initial assessment scores, and urgent need for remediation across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta - but substantial score improvements for users applying...
Managed Network Solutions and IT services provider Evolve is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Since it was founded in 2005, Evolve has grown from a startup to a leading specialist, serving household name...
CiContinuity, the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) division of Centerprise International,has launched CiContinuity AWS Backup Service. This comprehensive, policy-based backup and disaster...