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

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...
Nicholas Jackson, Director of Cyber Security Services at Bitdefender, discusses the company’s recent 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report, explain that businesses face mounting challenges and pressures as...
Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, discusses next-generation data protection and recovery-first cyber resilience and threat detection strategies; the AI opportunity – How the right storage is...
Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam, discusses the company’s recent report, From Hype to Help: How AI Is (Really) Transforming Cybersecurity in 2025, explaining that there’s no shortage...

Expert Opinions

By Sebastian Murphy, Technical Director - Data Centers EMEA, blu-3, Shaheed Salie, Technical Manager, blu-3, and Warren McTackett, blu-3.
By Sean Tilley, Senior Director Sales of EMEA at 11:11 Systems.
By Alec Stewart, Partner, Data Centres, Cundall.