So you want to be Richard Branson?
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A short primer on how to put your company on the PR map. By Federica Monsone, founder and managing director, A3 Communications.

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Building bridges of technology
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Anyone can build a bridge: the definition of an engineer is someone who can build a strong bridge, one fit for purpose that is not over-engineered and wasteful of resources, hence the engineering not just building. By Eric Jorgensen, Regional Vice President of Sales, EMEA, Virtual Instruments.

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Data centre power systems, air conditioning plant: testing and commissioning
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The inexorable rise of the data centre in the late 20th Century led to significant uptake in the design and installation of uninterruptable power supply systems (UPS) diesel generating sets (gensets) and complex air-conditioning systems to support these critical operations. In many cases the levels...

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Software defined storage and Ceph
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DCS talks to Bryan Bogensberger, CEO of Inktank, about the development of a ‘next-generation’ storage platform, Ceph, and how it is making unified storage a reality.

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Optimising the resilience, efficiency and total cost of ownership equation

DCS talks to Leo Craig, General Manager, Riello UPS Limited, about the critical need to balance the...

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Maestro promises a dynamic performance

DCS talks to Steve Charnock, VP Sales & Operations EMEA at CloudFabriQ, about the...

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Why horizontal scaling is the best way to grow your business

Walk through a full data center and you may be surprised. You may think you’ll find racks...

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When Big Data hits the centre!

Steve Jenkins, VP for EMEA at MapR Technologies and subject matter expert on Hadoop and Big Data...

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Predict, then measure: Simple rules for data centre success

The increasing demand for IT services has resulted in more and more data centres being built...

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The four pillars of cloud security

Market research firm Gartner described cloud computing as “an incredible force for...

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Getting it right: the best network platforms for the cloud

Steve Roberts, service development manager at Vtesse Networks, looks at how cloud deployments are...

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Managing privileged users in the cloud

While the global community remains polarised around the activities of Edward Snowden, there is an...

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Videos

Paul Christensen, Macquarie Data Centres General Manager, discusses the company’s 47MW IC3 Super West Sydney AI data centre, in the context of its plans to build out some 200MW of AI and cloud capacity in...
Nancy Hammervik, Chief Channel Officer at GTIA, shares insights from 40 years in the tech channel. She explains how community, mentorship, and a “member-first” mindset drive real impact in the industry....
Phil Cullerton, VP Services EMEA at Vertiv, explains why services will define the future of the data centre. The future of the data centre is not just about who builds fastest, it is about who operates best....
Rob Coupland, CEO at Pulsant, discusses the company’s £10 million investment in its Milton Keynes data centre to provide high-density, sovereign compute capacity to support AI transformation, with plans to...

Expert Opinions

By Rick Vanover, Vice President, Product Strategy at Veeam.
By Alistair Barnes, Head of Mechanical Engineering at Colt DCS.
Harmonics pose a headache for electrical systems in many industries, but data centres are uniquely exposed to the risks. Scott Birchall, Data centres & HVACR application engineer, ABB, explains what harmonics...
By Matt Roberts, VP of Sales, OptiCool Technologies.