| 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

| 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

| 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

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 | 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 | 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 | 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

October 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• Using heat to increase cooling

  Airedale sales director Paul Oliver looks at how integrated free-cooling systems can assist data centre heat management by reducing operating costs. Read more

September 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Utility service makes sweet music

  To securely keep up with massive growth while aligning costs to revenue opportunities, Innovest Systems has been utilizing Savvis cloud solutions for more th... Read more

June/July 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• Arriving At Tier IV

  How customer requirements played a major role in the specification of Europe's first Uptime Institute Accredited Tier IV Data Centre Design. DCS reports. Read more

June/July 2010 | Storage Networking

• Providing a single entry point across the globe

  Following Avnet's acquisition of Bell Microproducts, DCS talks to Roy Vallee, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Avnet, to discover the reasons behind this lat... Read more

June/July 2010 | The Cloud

• Adapt or die

  Magirus has become Cisco's first specialty data centre distributor in Europe. DCS talks to Christian Magirus, executive vice-president & COO, Magirus, to... Read more

June/July 2010 | Power & Cooling

• The Modular Approach to Megawatt UPS Reliability

  Large UPS systems often make up the back bone of the power protection afforded to industrial and IT systems. The mission critical nature of the applications ... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Ticking all the boxes

  Shortly after the opening of what is billed as one of the world's largest data centres in Newport, South Wales, Nick Razey, CEO of Next Generation Data Limited,... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Doubling revenues ? a realistic objective

  DCS talks with Equinix's Keith Taylor, about the opportunities he sees in the data centre market into the future, confident that $2 billion in revenues, with a ... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Not too big and not too small

  Rupprecht Rittweger, CEO at e-shelter, shares his thoughts with DCS on the issues that need considering when managing a data centre project, with particular ref... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• When the going gets tough...

  DCS talks to Andy Ruhan, CEO at both Bridgehouse Capital, the venture capitalist firm, and Sentrum, the data centre operator about the data centre build/investm... Read more

May/June 2010 | Green Tech

• Best Practices for Wire-free Environmental Monitoring in the Data Center

  The idea that servers needed Read more

May/June 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• This Life – Peter Hannaford

  APC by Schneider, Vice President, Datacenters & Alliances, EMEA, Peter Hannaford is featured in our regular spotlight on key data centre industry personn... Read more

March 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Predicting the future

  Gartner has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Read more

March 2010 | Storage Networking

• SNIA Europe Datacenter Technologies Academy ? the value is in the detail

  The SNIA Europe Academy has been rebranded as the Datacenter Technologies Academy. Why? Because times, and datacentres, are changing, and so are your requiremen... Read more

March 2010 | Power & Cooling

• As safe as houses

  APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruXure enables high efficiency data centre at UK's largest Housing Association, as DCS reports. Read more

March 2010 | Power & Cooling

• Power and cooling dominate design requirements

  DCS looks at several recent data centre design projects, where energy efficiency considerations have been of paramount importance. Read more

November/December 2009 | Hosting & Colocation

• Data Centre Scale Computing

  Steve O'Donnell is an internationally recognized leader in Data Center Operations with 30 years of hands on experience running some of the largest IT organizati... Read more

November/December 2009 | Green Tech

• Getting to know your data

  How understanding your data is the first step to managing it. Read more