| Design & Facilities Management

• DCA Drives Forward with its 2012 Agenda

  Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA Executive Director reflects on the recent DCA board meeting. Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• Call for Papers: The Datacentre Transformation Conference

  THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) and Datacentre Solutions (DCS) magazine are pleased to invite conference session submissions (‘... Read more

| Power & Cooling

• Power protection for mission critical applications: today and tomorrow

  Robin Koffler, general manager, Riello UPS highlights some of the pointers that need to be considered when choosing a uninterruptible power supply system tha... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• The changing CIO role: The next stage in the evolution of the IT leader

  CIOs and other IT leaders could be forgiven for wondering what their roles will look like in the future in the increasingly cloud-centric IT landscape of 201... Read more

| Design & Facilities Management

• As green as the valleys of Wales

  Formerly a 75,000 sq ft semiconductor plant, Next Generation Data's Newport, Gwent facility is Europe's largest data centre. To meet its CRC goal, the new da... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Design & Facilities Management

• Data centre contamination, energy wastage and its implications

  Contamination, if allowed to accumulate on ICT equipment, can increase its power demand, creating energy wastage and excess CO2 emissions. Data centre decont... Read more

Winter 2010/2011 | Power & Cooling

• Increasing data centre cooling efficiency for higher density IT loads

  The system of removing heat from IT equipment using cooled air and a raised floor environment has served the data centre market well throughout its 40-year l... Read more

September 2010 | Power & Cooling

• Modular momentum to prove unstoppable

  DCS talks to Neil Rasmussen, Chief Innovation Officer, APC by Schneider Electric, about some of the trends that are having an impact on power and cooling wit... Read more

June/July 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• Arriving At Tier IV

  How customer requirements played a major role in the specification of Europe's first Uptime Institute Accredited Tier IV Data Centre Design. DCS reports. Read more

June/July 2010 | Storage Networking

• Providing a single entry point across the globe

  Following Avnet's acquisition of Bell Microproducts, DCS talks to Roy Vallee, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Avnet, to discover the reasons behind this lat... Read more

June/July 2010 | The Cloud

• Adapt or die

  Magirus has become Cisco's first specialty data centre distributor in Europe. DCS talks to Christian Magirus, executive vice-president & COO, Magirus, to... Read more

June/July 2010 | Servers

• Demand for real-time content grows; so does the pressure to deliver it

  Google's recent unveiling of a new TV set-top box that combines web browsing with television, reinforces the heightening battle to meet growing consumer dema... Read more

June/July 2010 | Power & Cooling

• Whys and Hows of Measuring Power in your Data Centre

  If your phone rings tomorrow and the CIO is on the line asking, "What are we doing about power consumption in our data centres?" what will you say? Typically... Read more

June/July 2010 | Power & Cooling

• The Modular Approach to Megawatt UPS Reliability

  Large UPS systems often make up the back bone of the power protection afforded to industrial and IT systems. The mission critical nature of the applications ... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Ticking all the boxes

  Shortly after the opening of what is billed as one of the world's largest data centres in Newport, South Wales, Nick Razey, CEO of Next Generation Data Limited,... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Doubling revenues ? a realistic objective

  DCS talks with Equinix's Keith Taylor, about the opportunities he sees in the data centre market into the future, confident that $2 billion in revenues, with a ... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Not too big and not too small

  Rupprecht Rittweger, CEO at e-shelter, shares his thoughts with DCS on the issues that need considering when managing a data centre project, with particular ref... Read more

May/June 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• When the going gets tough...

  DCS talks to Andy Ruhan, CEO at both Bridgehouse Capital, the venture capitalist firm, and Sentrum, the data centre operator about the data centre build/investm... Read more

May/June 2010 | Green Tech

• Best Practices for Wire-free Environmental Monitoring in the Data Center

  The idea that servers needed Read more

May/June 2010 | Design & Facilities Management

• This Life – Peter Hannaford

  APC by Schneider, Vice President, Datacenters & Alliances, EMEA, Peter Hannaford is featured in our regular spotlight on key data centre industry personn... Read more

March 2010 | Hosting & Colocation

• Predicting the future

  Gartner has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Read more

March 2010 | Storage Networking

• SNIA Europe Datacenter Technologies Academy ? the value is in the detail

  The SNIA Europe Academy has been rebranded as the Datacenter Technologies Academy. Why? Because times, and datacentres, are changing, and so are your requiremen... Read more

March 2010 | Applications

• Cabling with environmental monitoring and intelligent management

  Local authority sees sophisticated cabling solution as best way to meet ambitious cost and efficiency targets, and long-term green goals, as DCS finds out. Read more

March 2010 | Green Tech

• Safety at high speeds

  Datacenter Stockholm provides fast, secure remote access for users worldwide with F5. DCS talks to Björn Forselius, Communications and Security Specialist at Da... Read more

March 2010 | Power & Cooling

• As safe as houses

  APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruXure enables high efficiency data centre at UK's largest Housing Association, as DCS reports. Read more

March 2010 | Power & Cooling

• A powerful promise of innovation

  DCS talks to AEG's newly appointed Global VP for Data & IT, Michael Adams, about the company's intention to increase its penetration into the data centre market... Read more

March 2010 | Green Tech

• Energy saver

  For years the industry has been discussing the ultimate green data centre, but secretly wondering what it means to be ?really' green. Now we need to test these ... Read more

March 2010 | Power & Cooling

• Power and cooling dominate design requirements

  DCS looks at several recent data centre design projects, where energy efficiency considerations have been of paramount importance. Read more

March 2010 | The Cloud

• I/O virtualisation ?

  Zycko's recent partnership with I/O virtualisation pioneers, Xsigo Systems, provides insight into the next leap forward in virtualised services. By David Galton... Read more

Winter 2009 | Power & Cooling

• Bending the Curve on Data Centre Energy Efficiency

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