Data Centre Solutions

Ostara enhances business with redundancy systems and greater bandwidth

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A Milton-Keynes based company that provides Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software solutions to blue chip companies has incorporated a back up solution, otherwise known as redundancy, into its business offering and now also has greater bandwidth thanks to Node4.

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Agreement provides waste management leader with scalability and efficiency to support growth.

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European MD sees link between ideal staff traits and having what it takes to be an Olympic athlete.

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City Lifeline has unveiled a new, more interactive website, designed to reflect changing business needs and add value for companies looking to introduce the latest data technologies into their operations.

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

Easynet moves to the Cloud with HP

HP Converged Infrastructure enhances IT agility for global managed services provider.

The biggest threat to your data centre? The people within it

Survey reveals internal threats are still responsible for the most downtime incidents.

Reliability in the cloud is more valuable than low cost and ease of set up

Yet only 30% are very confident that their cloud service provider is reliable.

euNetworks enhances carrier community at LDeX1 Data Centre, London

London Data Exchange (LDeX) has announced details of the latest Tier 1 network provider to establish a Point of Presence at their LDeX1 data centre in North West London; euNetworks.

Neue NetSure 701-Retrofit Lösung für ACTURA-Systeme bietet höhere Zuverlässigkeit und Effizienz

Retrofit-Lösungen von Emerson Network Power ermöglichen Modernisierung von DC-Stromversorgungssystemen

NovaBACKUP mit nahtlosem Cloud Backup und Restore. NovaStor kooperiert mit SITaaS.

Cloud-Storage-Anbieter in Deutschland, UK und USA stehen in NovaBACKUP direkt als Speicherziel zur Verfügung. NovaBACKUP-Kunden erhalten bei SITaaS 5 GB gratis

Exponential-e expands its high-speed connectivity to Virtus Data Centres’ LON1 facility

Virtus Data Centres has partnered with technology firm Exponential-e to boost high-speed connectivity options in Virtus’ LON1 data centre. Exponential-e provides direct connectivity to over 42 different UK financial exchanges and trading platforms.

Power für die IT - Intelligente Stromverteilung für modulare Rechenzentren

Schneider Electric erweitert sein Lösungsportfolio für den Bereich IT Business um die Prisma-Schaltanlagen und die Canalis-Schienenverteiler. Mit ihnen passen Administratoren die Energieversorgung ihrer Rechenzentren jederzeit flexibel an die sich ändernden Anforderungen der IT an. Beide Lösungsreihen können ab sofort über Partner und Reseller von Schneider Electric IT Business bezogen werden

White paper highlights adoption of ODCA Cloud Usage models

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced the release of a new white paper focused on how one of its board members has adopted ODCA requirements as the foundation for its cloud implementation and the release of two new usage models focused on Software Entitlement and Data Security. With today's news, ODCA has now released over 20 cloud requirements documents and publications and is demonstrating significant momentum in the adoption of its cloud usage models.

Ovum predicts radical change for the enterprise landscape by 2020

Citrix, Google, VMware and Yammer identified as disruptive players driving this transformation.

Green data centres – turning the ‘dream’ into a reality

Tim Loake, VP, Infrastructure Solutions Group, UK at Dell Technologies, discusses the many ways in which the data centre industry can improve its sustainability credentials. The conversation includes some great insights into technology innovations around, liquid cooling, renewables automation and IT hardware, as well as the importance of ensuring end users are optimising the use of their existing digital infrastructure.

Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

It’s time for a change of CIO mindset: the shift from IT Financial Management as purely cost management to revenue driver

By Dr. Alexander Becker, Chief Operating Officer, Serviceware.

The role of cloud in mitigating carbon emissions within the oil and gas industry

By Grant Caley, Chief Technologist UK&I at NetApp.

Future Gazing: Top Enterprise Cloud Trends on the Horizon

By Terry Storrar, Managing Director UK, Leaseweb.

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