Opinion

Including On The Record – regular insights from our partners

Resilience and the women holding this industry together

Lizzy McDowell -

Lizzy McDowell, Director of Marketing at Kao Data, on why resilience has become the silent currency of women in digital infrastructure, and why the industry needs to stop celebrating it as a virtue and start asking what it costs.

AI is forcing a rethink of intra-data centre connectivity

Teresa Monteiro -

Nokia’s Teresa Monteiro explores why AI’s scale-out demands are forcing a rethink of connectivity at the heart of the data centre.

Can your data infrastructure handle the realities of AI scale?

Alex Segeda -

WD’s Alex Segeda explores whether your data infrastructure is ready for the scale, speed and complexity of modern AI workloads.

The quantum opportunity will not look like a normal data centre build

Daniel Thorpe -

JLL's Daniel Thorpe examines why quantum-ready facilities will need different thinking on power, cooling, location and complexity.

Why is the AI industry still talking as if everything belongs in the cloud?

Neel Khokhani -

Why is AI still framed as a cloud story? Neel Khokhani of Epochal Corporation says the real momentum is already at the edge.

Why fire safety can’t be an afterthought on hyperscale builds

Aaron Velardi -

Why can’t fire safety wait? Ramtech Global's Aaron Velardi examines the rising construction risks on hyperscale data centre sites.

Resilience starts with the network – and ends with operational discipline

Ramtin Rampour -

Opengear's Ramtin Rampour argues resilience is earned in failure, through recoverability, access and the operational discipline to restore service.

The data centre boom will stall without a skills plan

John Booth -

The data centre boom risks running out of people before power, unless the industry replaces poaching with a real long-term skills pipeline.

Why reliable liquid cooling starts long before the rack goes live

Bob Walicki -

Bob Walicki, Ecolab Senior RD&E Program Leader, argues reliable liquid cooling is won before go-live through integrated CDUs, fluid control and commissioning.