Data Centre Solutions

Blue Helix named Corning EMEA Distributor of the Year

Published in Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Corning Cable Systems have chosen Blue Helix in the UK as their 2012 EMEA distributor of the Year. Blue Helix have increased revenues consistently over the past 5 years with a concerted effort in 2012 to grow the day to day business and the joint customer base for Corning and Blue Helix.

Published in Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading independent Internet Service Providers (ISP), has achieved Participant status in the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre energy efficiency.

Published in Design + Optimisation

Just one in five cloud users concerned about contractual liability for SLAs.

Published in Design + Optimisation

New industry practice to boost sales to the public sector.

Rackspace launches Big Data Solution and Managed Support for ApacheTM Hadoop®

Rackspace® Hosting is announcing the availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform powered by...

MapR Technologies integrates security into Hadoop

Latest release brings native authentication to the majority of Hadoop users via easy-to-use, strong...

Skyscape Cloud Services announces price reductions and service level improvements

The assured cloud services provider announces plans to reduce costs by nearly 60 percent.

HP helps Barnwell School improve the learning experience

Barnwell makes the classrooms of the future a reality with HP infrastructure.

Groupon builds on Talend Enterprise Data Integration

Best deals with Talend.

Cloud Computing provides competitive advantage

IBM has announced that organizations gaining competitive advantage through high cloud adoption are...

Heavy Clouds need optimising for ISV growth

The shift away from on premise towards cloud computing continues unabated. Yet while the business...

Oracle buys BigMachines

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire BigMachines, a leading cloud-based Configure, Price...

AI deep dive: from early lessons to an agentic future

Andy, Data & AI Director at Pax8, explores what the agentic inflection point means in practice and how AI is moving beyond experimentation into real-world application. He breaks down the 'empty box' approach...

Interview with Socomec at DCW 2026

Data Centre World 2026

Mind the gap - addressing the risk of shadow AI

Oliver Simonnet, Lead Cybersecurity Researcher at CultureAI, discusses the findings of the company’s The State of Enterprise AI Usage: The Illusion of Control report, which reveals a growing gap between how...

GRDs help future-proof data centres

Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps,...

Expert Opinions

The 2026 Memory Crisis: Why Your IT Refresh Just Hit a Speed Bump

By Danny Kirby (Senior Account Director at Cameo Services) and Iain Burton (Strategic Account Director at RTK Group).

Don’t let pumps become another bottleneck to data centre growth

Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help...

AI is unlocking entry-level potential, not replacing it

By Rohit Gupta, UK&I Managing Director at Cognizant.

Micro-grids have an essential role to play in enabling data centre developments

By Amey Karnik, Director, Ramboll.

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