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Data centre industry in good health, ready for sustainability, supply chain and skills challenges

DCS talks with Jim Hart, CEO of Business Critical Solutions (BCS). The company’s summer report paints an optimistic picture for the data centre sector in terms of continuing growth; but acknowledges that the industry faces some significant disruption as it seeks to address the problems posed by climate change, the global supply chain and a skills shortage.

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On-premises opportunities still very much alive! - Nebulon

Tim Pitcher, Vice President Sales at Nebulon, talks Channel challenges, including differentiation, changing business models and hyperconverged. Working through its OEM server partners, Nebulon has recently launched the smartPartner Programme, providing Channel companies with an exciting, recurring revenue opportunity.

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MSP or MSSP?

Marwin Marcussen, EMEA Channel Solution Architect at Kaseya, talks about the many challenges and opportunities facing end users as they seek to address the outfall from the pandemic, alongside the continuation of their existing digital transformation programmes. Happily, the Channel is perfectly placed to provide the expert knowledge and solutions end users require, with security very much the number one focus.

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Building digital muscle - Ascent

DW talks to Alex James, CTO at Ascent, about the pitfalls of focusing too closely on digital transformation and technology innovation without first understanding what it is your company wants to achieve. Armed with this knowledge, Alex believes that end users can then achieve the right balance between data, software and platforms in order to implement successful, focused business change.

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The importance of building services around skills - Node4

Andy Slater, Director (Azure Practice / N4Stack) at Node4 Ltd, talks about the twin hybrid opportunities for the Channel – hybrid IT and the hybrid workplace, emphasising the importance of providing the expertise and value which customers are not able to find within their own organisations.

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A powerful cloud combination for the Channel - PAX8 & Resello

Harald Nuij, Managing Director of Resello, talks about the company’s recent acquisition by Pax8, a global cloud management platform provider. The combination of Resello’s technology portfolio and Pax8’s MSP-focused platform, alongside their shared vision of accelerating cloud growth, provides a number of benefits for channel organisations of all sizes wishing to expand and improve their own cloud-based customer solutions.

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Be the best at what you do, and understand what you don’t do

Terry Storrar, Managing Director UK at Leaseweb, provides some valuable advice for the Channel as it seeks to address the challenges and opportunities resulting from more and more customers moving to the ‘pay as you use’ model, and for individual companies to distinguish themselves in such a competitive market.

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Tackling cloud complexity with the right tools

Stela Udovivic, Director of Product Marketing, VMware Tanzu, explains how securing the right observability tools will help enterprises get control over their software and spot problems before they become a more widespread issue.

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The role of AIOPS in successful cloud migrations

John Gentry, Chief Technology Officer and SVP Business Development, Virtana, discusses how AIOPS provides end users with a ‘know before you go’ confidence in terms of how/when/where to move apps into the cloud (or not).

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Exploring IT’s digital experience challenges

Jon Cairns, VP, Technical Services at Nexthink, focuses on the challenges IT departments faced during the pandemic when it came to providing an optimised digital experience for a working-from-home workforce and how the lessons learned can better inform the provision and acceptance of technology rollouts into the future.

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The race to IT observability

Ted Redkar, Chief Product Officer, LogicMonitor, talks about achieving end-to-end observability in the age of digital transformation and technological convergence.

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How to get started with AIOPS

Pierre Aeschlimann, Principal Strategist, Digital Transformation and Value Realization, Ivanti, talks through the AIOPS fundamentals, emphasising the importance of discovery and dependency mapping (DDM), configuring the data sources, discovering the ITSM pain points and opportunities and the use of agile processes to implement solutions.

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News

20i has chosen Kao Data's state-of-the-art Harlow facility as its new data centre supplier, enhancing service performance, speed, security and reliability for both its customers and infrastructure.
New integrations, broad marketplace access empower customers using cloud, security, and observability tools with network telemetry and insights.
BCS, the specialist services provider to the digital infrastructure industry, has appointed Philip Dekker as Head of Service for its critical infrastructure cost management service offer which supports clients...
Deal will include the acquisition of SCC data centres in Birmingham and Fareham, ensuring growth opportunities and long-term stability.

Expert Opinions

Just last month, the UK Government announced it will establish ‘AI Growth Zones’ as part of its AI Action Plan, to help to facilitate the rise in demand for AI-specific data centres. It’s an exciting...
By Matt Bailey, workplace analytics specialist at Matrix Booking explores how data-driven insights can help organisations balance occupancy levels and adapt to changing work patterns.
2025 will see cybersecurity challenges continuing to evolve, security breaches becoming ever more sophisticated, and organisations accelerating their adoption of SASE and SSE in response.
By Ash Gawthorp, Co-founder & Chief Academy Officer at Ten10.