What a Solid State we store in
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Solid state drives use semiconductor chips, as opposed to magnetic media, to store data. The chips that solid state drives use are non-volatile memory meaning that the data remains even when the system has no power. By Gilda Foss, SNIA SSSI Governing Board, NetApp.

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Have your platform & eat it too: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
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Cloud computing stakeholders have numerous challenges to overcome when considering different service offering, writes Patrick Kerpan, CEO and co-founder of CohesiveFT.

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The storage Holy Grail: Decoupling performance from capacity
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The role of a Flash Hypervisor in today’s Virtual Data Centre. By Jeff Aaron, Vice President of Marketing, PernixData.

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And the winners are…
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The fourth annual DCS Awards took place on Thursday 15th May at the Millennium Hotel in London’s Mayfair in front of 300 guests from across Europe.

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Keeping control of your storage environment: whatever the weather

The promise of virtualisation remains just that for many organisations, frustrated with the poor...

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A new data centre at MMU

Manchester Metropolitan University has introduced a new high density data centre as part of a dual...

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Optimising data centre and IT strategy ‘in the round’

DCS talks to Michael Rudgyard, CTO and Founder of Concurrent Thinking, about how a true DCIM suite...

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What lessons IT managers can learn from professional athletes

Eric Jorgensen, VP of regional sales EMEA at Virtual Instruments, recently trained for a triathlon...

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Data centre carrier neutrality: Six things you need to know

For any data centre manager considering a colocation strategy, it’s important to ensure that...

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British design and manufacture recognised in DCS Awards

The SmartCool™ CW SD/SN/SR (11-233kW) was developed to meet the demand for an...

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Have you already gone wireless or are you still dealing with cables?

A different approach to integrated power and environment monitoring in data centres. By Jörg...

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The path to an environmentally-friendly data centre

A carefully chosen site in the West Midlands provided the opportunity for a clean sheet in terms of...

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Videos

Andy, Data & AI Director at Pax8, explores what the agentic inflection point means in practice and how AI is moving beyond experimentation into real-world application. He breaks down the 'empty box' approach...
Robert Tanner, Locker & Vending Solutions Specialist at LapSafe, discusses the AI Smart Locker, which recently won ‘AI & Automation Project of the Year’ at the MSP Channel Awards. He explains how the...
Thiri Shwesin Aung, founder and CEO of Nyxium, discusses how she and co-founder, Paul Seurin, have built an agentic AI platform that helps energy and infrastructure developers decide where projects are most...
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,...

Expert Opinions

By Fabrizio Landini, Global Data Centre Segment Leader, Hitachi Group.
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 JP Buzzell, chief data centre architect at Eaton.