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Author: Claire Fletcher

Multi-cloud set to be king of the castle, says Ensono

When it comes to the future of cloud services, according to research from Ensono, multi-cloud strategies are set to dominate. Ensono has released the findings of its research report, ‘A snapshot of the cloud in 2021.’ The company surveyed 500 full-time professionals

Blowing the roof off conventional

“A gale of creative economic destruction is blowing the roof off the conventional data centre economic model, revealing something altogether different”, says Alan Beresford, MD of data centre cooling experts EcoCooling. We asked Alan to elaborate upon this rather mysterious statement. There’s

Global Technical

Global Technical Realty and KKR to develop first UK data centre campus

Global Technical Realty (GTR), a $1bn European build-to-suit acquisition data centre platform, has reached an agreement with SEGRO to develop a data centre campus in Slough, UK, to meet demand from high-growth global technology companies. Upon completion, the campus will be the

Sexy

Failing to bring sexy back

There are a lot of things in this world that are deemed “sexy”, I’d list some but each very much to their own on that one; although I’m sure we can all agree Jason Momoa is pretty sexy. But, that long haired

Testing

Stop testing, you might find something wrong

Is a ‘Zero Testing’ environment the holy grail of software engineering or a viable reality? Anbu Muppidathi, president & CEO (Designate) at Qualitest Group elaborates. The pinnacle of Quality Engineering (QE) is not finding bugs but eliminating any possibility for a bug.

Giving data centres the green(er) light

There is no question that the future of data centres is green, it has to be, but how do operators go beyond the buzzword and actually start making sustainable solutions a reality? Here, Terry Storrar, managing director at Leaseweb UK, tells us

Used

Could ‘used’ actually mean better?

There has long been speculation that buying something previously owned carried risk, or that buying used and second hand negatively connoted the ‘cheap’, less reliable option. But, there is a new model in town that opens the door for ‘old’ IT equipment

Resilience

Demanding resilience (and sustainability)

These days if you’re operating a data centre, if you can’t offer your customers the levels of resilience and sustainability they require, then you might as well get out of the race. Here, Marc Garner, VP, secure power division at Schneider Electric

Cooling

Cooling a hyperscale

With power densities among the hyperscalers continuing to snowball, how do operators go about meeting the cooling challenges of these ever-growing and varied power densities? Phil Smith, construction director UK at Vantage, tells us more. Power densities in the hyperscale data centre

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