Technology Spotlights

Cutting costs and improving performance with IIM

Published in Infrastructure + Hardware

By Dr. Thomas Wellinger, Market Manager Data Centres, Reichle & De Massari.

Brexit & GDPR impact on cloud and DC strategy

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Changing data flows and the impact on the IT sector tackled by tech experts at DCD Europe?s ZettaStructure on 1-2 November at the Old Billingsgate Market in London.

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UK Data Centres - the unsung heroes of the tech revolution?

Published in Design + Optimisation

By Jack Bedell-Pearce, Managing Director, 4D.

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New efficiency standard will spur energy innovation in data centres

Published in Design + Optimisation Power & Cooling

By Victor Avelar, Director and Senior Research Analyst at Schneider Electric’s Data Center Science Center.

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Design or Go Down: Mitigating outage risk through data centre setup

As the number of data centre outages continues to rise each year, Verne Global’s Director of Technical Services, Jorge Balcells, explores how data centre downtime could become a thing of the past.

Security health check – does your data centre stack up?

By Robin Brown, VP at Colt Data Centre Services.

Safe harbours seems more like a rough sea

By Mike West, CEO at Keysource.

“What Just Happened?”

By Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO, Zenium.

Do we really need Icelandic data centres?

Asks Kate Craig-Wood is MD of cloud hosting provider, Memset.

Design for operation is the key to success

When customers are looking to build a new data centre, they often lose sight of the operational aspects of the facility. ‘Design for operation’ is a new approach which focuses on the long term running of the facility when considering the initial design and one that we, as an industry, should be championing. Richard Clifford, Data Centre Consultant at Keysource explains.

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Why data centre providers can no longer afford to ignore DCIM

David Watkins, Service Delivery Director, VIRTUS Data Centres, discusses the growth of Data Centre Infrastructure Management systems and the need for widespread adoption.

Measurement and management are the tip of the iceberg when maximising data centre efficiency

By Nick Ewing, Director, Comtec Power Ltd.

SD-WAN – not all solutions are created equal (or fully integrated)!

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.

Doers, dabblers and dawdlers – a digital transformation snapshot

Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer, discusses the findings of the company’s inaugural Digital Maturity Index, which looks at the ways in which organisations have, or have not as yet, embraced the technologies and processes required to implement a successful digital transformation strategy. The Index identifies doers, dabblers and dawdlers, at varying stages of their digital journeys, identifying what distinguishes each group, but also some common challenges which still remain.

An object lesson in storage

Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, explains the company’s DS3 geo-distributed storage solution, provides some background on how the company is developing its presence in then market, and talks of a new technology solution arriving this autumn.

Application modernisation and digital data management

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.

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UK businesses struggle to balance security budgets as cyber incidents soar

Businesses have reported a 25% uplift in cyber incidents over the last year.

Paessler AG acquires Swiss technology company ITPS AG

Paessler AG announces the successful acquisition of ITPS Group, with subsidiaries in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Romania as well as business activities in India. This strategic development comes in the run-up to IT-SA 2023 and marks another step in Paessler's ambition to offer its customers a diversified range of individual features for any infrastructure and monitoring objective.

CENTIEL supports Sure’s Data Centres

Leading Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) supplier CENTIEL has completed a project to deploy its award-winning 4th generation, three-phase, modular UPS system CumulusPowerTM in three of Sure’s Tier III data centres on Guernsey.

Toshiba opens Quantum Technology Centre

Toshiba has officially opened the new, cutting edge Quantum Technology Centre in a ceremony attended by Lord Johnson, Minister of State for the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), and Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom.

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