| Other

• Improved flexibility and cost-efficiency for DR

  Dell disk backup solution with deduplication and compression helps customers keep pace with data growth, reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up ... Read more

| Other

• HP debuts tape innovations Built for Convergence

  New HP StoreEver Storage portfolio improves simplicity, reliability and security of long-term data protection and retention. Read more

| Other

• Lantronix launches xSenso Analogue Device Server

  Lantronix has announced the launch of the xSenso™ analogue device server (ADS), a compact DIN-rail or wall mount device that enables sensors with analo... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• DCA Drives Forward with its 2012 Agenda

  Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA Executive Director reflects on the recent DCA board meeting. Read more

| Hosting & Colocation

• Platform as a service set for strategic growth

  Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enter... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• Call for Papers: The Datacentre Transformation Conference

  THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) and Datacentre Solutions (DCS) magazine are pleased to invite conference session submissions (‘... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• Green skills for the green economy

  In a recent BCS video debate, a panel of green IT thought leaders discussed the recently released ‘Skills for the Green Economy' report from UK governm... Read more

| Hosting & Colocation

• Delivering Cloud Services to global businesses in hours

  Vnetrix, a UK-based managed service provider (MSP), has reduced the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours using CA AppLogic® software... Read more

| Other

• Making the network cost-efficient

  By streamlining and simplifying the way networks and hosting capacity are set up, businesses can better balance short and long term goals. Nathan Bell - Dire... Read more

| Storage Networking

• The secrets to managing disruptive migrations and consolidations

  Enterprise IT is always on the move. Data centres, servers and storage are forever being consolidated, migrated or renewed, typically involving virtualisatio... Read more

| Other

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service stars in the fashion industry

  Condé Nast Digital Germany uses The Cloud to deliver content - securely, flexibly, and inexpensively. By GoGrid. Read more

| Other

• Recovery-as-a-Service offers a jumpstart to the clouds

  Cloud and virtualisation are both major drivers for businesses of all shapes and sizes as two strategies to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies... Read more

| Power & Cooling

• Power protection for mission critical applications: today and tomorrow

  Robin Koffler, general manager, Riello UPS highlights some of the pointers that need to be considered when choosing a uninterruptible power supply system tha... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• The changing CIO role: The next stage in the evolution of the IT leader

  CIOs and other IT leaders could be forgiven for wondering what their roles will look like in the future in the increasingly cloud-centric IT landscape of 201... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• As green as the valleys of Wales

  Formerly a 75,000 sq ft semiconductor plant, Next Generation Data's Newport, Gwent facility is Europe's largest data centre. To meet its CRC goal, the new da... Read more

| Hosting & Colocation

• A question of perspectives

  How to eliminate Cloud confusion within your organization. By Andy Mulholland, Global CTO, Capgemini. Read more

| Storage Networking

• In the Spotlight

  Adam Winkelmann VP International Operations - Emulex Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | The Cloud

• Experiencing the ‘Power of 3’

  For the second successive year data center, storage and networking professionals converged on Frankfurt at the end of October for the two-day conference prog... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Storage Networking

• Group Mannheimer Versicherungen reduces operational costs by 30 percent

  The root-and-branch review and restructuring of the Mannheimer IT landscape has more than met the business objectives, and has also delivered lower operation... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Design & Facilities Management

• ‘Just cables’ or mission-critical connectivity?

  DCS talks to ADC Krone's Mansel Healy about passive infrastructure. The trend is to pack more and more connections, into a smaller and smaller space, and thi... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Design & Facilities Management

• Data centre contamination, energy wastage and its implications

  Contamination, if allowed to accumulate on ICT equipment, can increase its power demand, creating energy wastage and excess CO2 emissions. Data centre decont... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Virtualization

• Get more for less: Active Continuous Optimisation solves the data centre riddle

  Smart devices, wireless technologies and evolutionary employee behaviour place heavy demand on the data centre, causing further overstretching of resources, ... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Power & Cooling

• Increasing data centre cooling efficiency for higher density IT loads

  The system of removing heat from IT equipment using cooled air and a raised floor environment has served the data centre market well throughout its 40-year l... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Design & Facilities Management

• High Density Fibre Solution optimises use of space in BT Operate’s data centres

  Space today is an expensive commodity, and nowhere more so than in Data Centres. The need to pack ever more equipment including cabling into more and more co... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Virtualization

• Improving system performance to support critical research

  Argonne National Laboratory's management needed to find a more cost-effective and efficient way to deliver IT services, centred around the need for standardi... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Design & Facilities Management

• This Life: Dan Smith

  DCS interviews Dan Smith about his experience of working at various data centres. Dan Smith is the Managed Services Director at Retail Assist Ltd Read more

October 2010 | Virtualization

• Virtual Infrastructure Optimisation: Medicine for the nervous and circulatory systems

  DCS talks to John W. Thompson, CEO at Virtual Instruments, about the need for end users to proactively manage their physical and virtual IT infrastructures -... Read more

October 2010 | Virtualization

• Groupe Agrica rises to challenge of virtualization

  Groupe Agrica, the French insurance conglomerate, has deployed Cisco® Nexus 1000V and 5000 Series Switches to virtualise its infrastructure, and this cha... Read more

October 2010 | The Cloud

• Financial transparency: The starting point for cloud computing

  By following a five-step process designed to help you achieve financial transparency within your IT organisation, you can make informed decisions about the c... Read more

October 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• The true importance of contamination control for data centres

  Contamination is an ever-present threat to sensitive data centre equipment; its potential effects range from impaired power efficiency to catastrophic equipm... Read more