Ahead in the Clouds

Recent Posts

• West London datacentres: What can be done to ease the pressure on the grid?

  - Community Member 11 Aug 2022

In this guest post, Ian Shearer, managing director for Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Park Place Technologies, weighs in on what can be done to reduce the impact that ...

• Grid stability and the risk it poses to the retail sector and its datacentres

  - Community Member 09 Jun 2022

In this guest post, Simon Brady, services channel business development manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at datacentre equipment manufacturer Vertiv, outlines the challenges retailers face ...

• The challenges of trying to win business through G-Cloud

  - Community Member 26 May 2022

In this guest post, Ross McCaw, CEO and founder of internal communications-enabling platform OurPeople airs his personal take on the challenges his firm has experienced when trying to lockdown ...

• Why combining datacentre monitoring with computational fluid dynamics tech makes good sense

  05 Apr 2022

In this guest post, Mark Fenton, product manager at datacentre software visualisation provider Future Facilities, sets out why mixing monitoring and computational fluid dynamics technologies could ...

• Digital Cleanup Day: It's time to take out the digital trash

  18 Mar 2022

In this guest post, Yann Lechelle, CEO of French cloud provider Scaleway, sets out the steps consumers and businesses can take to reduce the environmental impact of their digital activities, ahead ...

• The future of cloud: Tech predictions for 2022 and beyond

  16 Feb 2022

In this guest post, Amazon CTO and vice president Werner Vogels sets out what he thinks the year ahead holds for the world of cloud technology Cloud infrastructure has evolved to a place where we ...

• Public sector cloud adoption: How Covid-19 is shaping take-up

  25 Nov 2021

In this guest post, Ryan Oakes, managing director of Accenture’s global public sector practice, on how the pandemic has influenced the pace and shape of public sector cloud adoption. Looking back ...

• The supply chain crisis: Protecting the datacentre

  15 Nov 2021

In this guest post, Adam Bradshaw, commercial director at colocation provider ServerChoice, discusses what datacentre operators can do to protect their organisations from the worst of the UK's ...

• Underwater datacentres: Is the industry at risk of sweeping its climate problems into the sea?

  05 Nov 2021

In this guest post, Jake Madders, co-founder of enterprise cloud provider Hyve Managed Hosting, explores the possible environmental impacts of relying on underwater datacentres In the summer of ...

• Why water usage is the datacentre industry’s dirty little secret

  21 Sep 2021

In this guest post to mark Sustainable Development Week, Arnaud de Bermingham, president and founder of cloud provider Scaleway sets out why the datacentre industry must come clean about its water ...

• UK government's Innovation Strategy needs to be cloud-powered to succeed, argues UKCloud

  02 Sep 2021

For the government’s Innovation Strategy to fulfil its 2035 vision, it must recognise cloud computing’s role as a driver of transformation, says James Maynard, solutions director at public sector ...

• Power and water: The environmental balancing act datacentre operators need to address

  20 Aug 2021

The datacentre industry is going through a boom time at the moment, but operators must ensure all this growth does not come at a cost to the environment, writes Computer Weekly senior editor, ...

• Post-pandemic business planning: Choosing the right datacentre partner

  16 Aug 2021

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres shares his top tips on what enterprises should be looking for in a datacentre partner. Those of us ...

• Embracing the cloud multiverse in pursuit of digital innovation

  14 Jun 2021

In this guest post, Stephen Gilderdale, senior director and head of pre-sales architects UK at Dell Technologies talks enterprises through the principle of building a “cloud multiverse” We stand at ...

• Hydrogen vs. diesel: The great datacentre backup power debate

  02 Jun 2021

In this guest post, Martin Keenan, technical director at IT distributor Avnet Abacus, sets out why hydrogen fuel cells could be on course to replace diesel generators as the datacentre industry’s ...