Data centre
Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.
Read more about related Data centre topics:
- Clustering for high availability and HPC
- Datacentre backup power and power distribution
- Datacentre capacity planning
- Datacentre cooling infrastructure
- Disaster recovery/security
- Green IT
- Performance, monitoring and optimisation
- Systems management
- IaaS
- Server and Operating Systems
- PaaS
- Virtualisation
- SaaS
- Desktop virtualisation platforms
News : Data centre
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September 23, 2016
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Sep'16
Case study: Housing & Care 21 makes digital advances
The retirement housing and care services provider has launched its first digital system in a care home and will no longer install analogue systems across its estate
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September 22, 2016
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Sep'16
Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe
Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue
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September 21, 2016
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London Capital Group improves service deployment with SDN
Online trading firm has revitalised its service delivery after switching a legacy physical network for VMware NSX SDN
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September 21, 2016
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Sep'16
Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research
Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies
In Depth : Data centre
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On-premise IT still the only way to run certain tasks
How to augment a public cloud strategy with on-premise IT by running workloads in a private cloud and bursting to the public cloud Continue Reading
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Interview: British Medical Journal’s CDO talks datacentres, DevOps and desktops
BMJ’s chief digital officer explains how the 170-year-old healthcare publication has negotiated several major digital transformation projects since she joined in 2012 Continue Reading
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Why more people aren’t cloud bursting
The appeal of cloud bursting is easy to see, but the level of complexity involved negates its benefits – at least for now Continue Reading
CW Europe – September 2015 edition
Find out the winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. The awards aim to shine a light on businesses across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology. You can find a full list of winners in this issue and we have highlighted a few through in-depth case studies.
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Blog Posts : Data centre
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Google Reviews blows datacentre industry's best kept secrets
Given the sensitive nature of the information server farms house, the datacentre community is never all that keen on revealing the precise location of where their facilities are out of fear of ... Continue Reading
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Where are the SD WAN companies outside North America?
Historically, the global tier-1 telecom infrastructure market has been dominated by vendors evenly spread out across the Northern Hemisphere for example Cisco, HP and Dell in the US, Nokia Networks ... Continue Reading
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How VMware is tackling the challenges of doing business in the hybrid, multi-cloud era
VMworld US 2016 suggests VMware is under no illusions about the challenges it faces, as its traditional customers cede control for IT buying to line of business units and start exploring their ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Data centre
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Infrastructure as code: What does it mean and why does it matter?
The emergence of software-defined hardware has given rise to the phrase “infrastructure as code” to describe the way these environments are managed Continue Reading
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Digital government isn’t about user needs – it’s more fundamental than that
The government digital movement needs to come out of startup phase and deliver on the real opportunities for public engagement Continue Reading
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Choosing the right colocation provider
Quocirca's Clive Longbottom runs through the list of items enterprise IT managers should look for in prospective colocation providers Continue Reading
Videos : Data centre
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Why Fitness First consolidated onto Nutanix
Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to a Nutanix converged infrastructure
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CW500: Amarpal Singh Attwal on dealing with disaster
Problems like data breaches or even website glitches can spread quickly on social media and cause huge reputational damage
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CW500: James Lodge, Nationwide Building Society on dealing with disaster
Problems like data breaches or even minor glitches can spread quickly on social media and cause huge reputational damage