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Ahead in the Clouds

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

April 2016

Think the Open Compute Project isn't for you? Think again
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 22 Apr 2016

In this guest post, James Bailey, director of datacentre hardware provider Hyperscale IT, busts some enterprise-held myths about the Open Compute Project Market watcher Gartner predicts the overall ...

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Michael Tidmarsh - Community Member 21 Apr 2016

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

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