Monitoring, managing and securing SDN deployments
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Mobility, cloud, and consumerisation of IT are all major themes playing out in the IT industry today. All of these themes are fundamentally changing the way we think about managing IT infrastructure. By Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer, Gigamon Inc.

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Building Channel relationships that last a lifetime
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DCS talks to Laurie Harvey, Director, Channel Marketing, NaviSite, about how the company is developing its Channel Partner Program to ensure that resellers are supported throughout the sales cycle and beyond as more and more end users are looking for Managed Services and Cloud solutions.

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Running multiple applications in a virtualised environment with Flash/SSD
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The disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualised and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application...

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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

If you were to ask a data centre manager for his or her top goal, it would very likely be to attain...

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Facility operations maturity model for data centres

A structured facility operations maturity model offers a framework for assessing the completeness...

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The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals

Data Centre World has run for the last eight years in London – growing its attendance each...

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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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Videos

Jason Feist, Seagate SVP, Go-to-Market, discusses Seagate Technology’s next-generation Mozaic™ 4+ platform, said to be the industry’s only heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)–based storage platform...
Antoine Jebara, Co-Founder and GM of Channel & Alliances at JumpCloud, explores how managed service providers can move beyond transactional roles to become true business partners. He dives into practical...
In this interview, Aaron Watts, Chief Channel Officer at usecure, explains why people, not just technology, are now the primary target for cyberattacks. He explores how MSPs can balance automation with...

Expert Opinions

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 Arash Ghazanfari, CxO Advisor, UK & Europe, Dell Technologies.
By Peter Manta, AI Strategy and Practice Director, Informatica by Salesforce.