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.

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Easynet moves to the Cloud with HP

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Ovum predicts radical change for the enterprise landscape by 2020

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

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Latest Claranet research highlights Bring Your Own Dilemma

96 per cent say mobile working benefits their organisation, but three quarters think BYOD increases security risk.

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Kennzahlen im Rechenzentrum: Wie PUE-Werte ermittelt werden, wie sie sich verbessern lassen von Dr. Peter Koch ist Senior Vice President Engineering & Product Management für Knürr Racks & Integrated Cabinets, Emerson Networ

Die durch Cloud Computing und den zunehmenden Einsatz mobiler Endgeräte beständig wachsende IT-Last einerseits und der drohende weitere Anstieg der Energiepreise andererseits führen dazu, dass das Thema Energieeffizienz in den Fokus der Rechenzentrumsbetreiber gerückt ist. Wie aber können die Betreiber feststellen, ob ihre Rechenzentren energieeffizient ausgestaltet sind, und wo können gegebenenfalls Einsparpotenziale realisiert werden?

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LSI liefert nächste Generation von SAS-Produkten mit 12 Gb/s aus

12 Gb/s SAS-RAID-on-Chip-Controller und I/O-Controller liefern die nötige Performance für Server und externe Speicherplattformen der nächsten Generation

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Outsourcery appoints Andy Burton as a non executive director

Andy Burton, who has been a leader in the development of the UK cloud sector, has been appointed as a non-executive director of Outsourcery Group, the leading Cloud Service Provider (CSP).

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Videos

In this video we speak to Steve Hone - CEO of the Data Centre Trade Association about the success of this year's Data Centre Transformation event, and the plans for next year.
Jim Weynand, EVP, Business Development at GRC explains the company’s liquid immersion cooling technology, its key partnerships with both server OEMs and major data centre infrastructure providers, and how he sees the data centre cooling market developing over time.
In this video we talk toArcadis at Data Centre Transformation 2023 and find out what keeps their Project Director James Rix up at night.
In this video we talk to Gary Chandler and Paul Silver from QiO at the 2023 Data Centre Transformation event.

Expert Opinions

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