29 Oct 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Factors driving interest in factory-terminated cabling systems add up to greater sustainability, lower cost of ownership, writes, Benoit Chevarie, Product Line Manager for Belden.
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1 Oct 2012 | Other
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Stephenson Harwood is a full service international law firm. With over 110 partners and 600 staff worldwide, it represents a wide range of listed and private companies, institutions and individuals. Through its network of seven offices and strong local relationships, Stephenson Harwood manage complex challenges and offer clients commercially-focused quality advice across the globe.
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1 Oct 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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With energy costs rising, building owners and managers are searching for ways to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve their carbon footprint. One area of the enterprise key to that effort is the data center—the IT system's central nerve center. By Denis Blouin, program manager for data centers with Belden.
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24 Sep 2012 | Applications
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In today's competitive business landscape, it is essential for enterprises to improve cross-company collaboration to better complete projects that deliver true value to the business. Amidst a culture of doing more with less with constantly evolving deadlines, it is essential that technology can enable collaboration and further business objectives – not create roadblocks.
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10 Sep 2012 | Hosting & Colocation
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How Xceed Group, an independent IT and business change professional services firm, helped global payments processing firm WorldPay to construct the full technical infrastructure for its business.
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10 Sep 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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When decision-makers contemplate data-centre projects involving tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, they must have an absolutely reliable way of assessing how their installation will perform. For large organisations depending on high volume online transactions, the highest possible data processing availability becomes the dominating requirement. Such organisations typically aspire to an availability of 99.999%, often referred to as ‘Five-Nines'. Other applications, with less critical loads, trade off between availability, capital costs and operating costs to best match their business priorities. By Mike Elms, Technical Services Manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company.
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3 Sep 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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What do Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google have in common...? They are all building bigger and "better" data centres to meet burgeoning server and storage requirements. Rapid growth in networking and data center equipment purchases reflects business' seemingly insatiable demand for more data and processing capacity. Data centre managers are at the sharp end of this rising demand and they are under more pressure than ever before. In fact, by 2010 networking equipment purchases in Europe grew at a compound rate of 3.2% annually. Analysts predict that the pace of market growth will increase to 5.4%, reaching approximately $69.8 billion by 2015 . As the scale and number of technologies increase, data centre managers need to find better ways to manage enterprise assets. This means reengineering operating processes, consolidating management information and surfacing actionable data from management systems, otherwise, managers will waste precious time, money and effort finding their way through the volume of information, alerts, workflows and management tasks that a modern data centre needs.
By Dr Ben Eshay, CTO at Ritte Technologies.
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27 Aug 2012 | Security
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In this interview, Jeremy Thake, chief architect at AvePoint and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP), gives his thoughts on one of the most important areas for a successful SharePoint deployment – the governance policy.
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20 Aug 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Despite the many benefits delivered by server virtualisation, the technology also brings with it certain pitfalls that data centre managers need to manage carefully. One of the biggest challenges resulting from server virtualisation is the surge in the number of cables associated with increased levels of I/O. In this article, Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at I/O consolidation specialists NextIO, gives tips for data centre managers on how to they can make the most of server virtualisation to ensure the agility of their business, and not let cables take over their lives.
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30 Jul 2012 | Applications
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In today's global marketplace the ability to seamlessly share vast quantities of data across the various departments in different continents is critical to maintaining competitive advantage. When a leading healthcare organisation also needed to migrate to a new middleware platform such as SAP PI, the process of moving existing data transformations to this platform had to be as invisible to the users as possible.
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23 Jul 2012 | Other
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As midsized IT environments increasingly adopt server virtualization, administrators are challenged to find appropriately featured backup to protect their investment. VM architectures require more advanced backup and recovery processes than traditional server architectures, but these need not be complicated to select, configure and use – if appropriate consideration is given to the potential problems.
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16 Jul 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Every second that something continues to burn, the greater the cost in repair and recovery. Chris Downing, UK extinguishing product manager for the Siemens Building Technologies division, looks at why data centre operators need to ensure their fire detection and extinguishing systems are suited to their specific environment to be at their most reliable, responsive and effective.
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9 Jul 2012 | Applications
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By Joe Spears, eBay's Senior Director of Corporate Accounting, and Vijayant Malik, Genpact's VP of Global Finance and Accounting.
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9 Jul 2012 | Hosting & Colocation
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Amnesty International was founded in the UK in 1961 on the belief in the power of ordinary people to make extraordinary change. Today, Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for human rights. Its work is based on careful research by volunteers, and on the human rights standards agreed by the international community. Amnesty International UK (Amnesty) raises £10.4m annually through its fundraising, and is one of more than 50 nationally organised sections that make up the Amnesty International worldwide movement.
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2 Jul 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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As data centre energy costs continue to increase and consume ever greater proportions of the IT budget, organisations are exploring a growing raft of power efficient technologies and innovative designs in order to control costs and meet CRC targets. But virtualisation and cold air cooling alone are not going to solve the data centre power issue long term.
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