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Making multi-tenant colocation data centers more competitive
By: Schneider Electric
Type: White Paper
The data center retail colocation market is highly competitive and growing. Providers are under continuous pressure to be resource efficient while being ready to scale and meet tenants’ evolving demands.
SLA performance, and environmental sustainability metrics. Modern data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software can be an effective tool to help address these needs.
In this white paper, explore practical examples of how modern commercial DCIM software makes colocation data center operations more competitive by improving resiliency, security, environmental sustainability, transparency, and operational efficiency.
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How Covid-19 is affecting the colocation market
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Type: eGuide
This e-guide shares details of some of the latest trends and thinking in colocation, while also shining a light on how datacentre operators are rushing to meet the soaring demand for compute capacity they are seeing both from enterprises and hyperscale cloud firms.
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Practical examples of how DCIM can make colocation data centers competitive
By: Schneider Electric
Type: White Paper
The data center retail colocation market is highly competitive and growing. Providers are under continuous pressure to be resource efficient while being ready to scale and meet tenants’ evolving demands.
Fortunately, modern data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software can be just the tool to help address these needs.
In this white paper, discover practical examples of how modern commercial DCIM software can make colocation data center operations more competitive by improving resiliency, security, sustainability, transparency, and more.
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Expand your services with managed power solutions
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This eBook from Schneider Electric guides IT solution providers on adding managed power services to increase revenue. Learn how to leverage software tools for remote monitoring and management of critical infrastructure. Read now to future-proof your business.
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Colocation SLAs, explained by experts
By: TechTarget
Type: Resource
Colocation SLAs can be an expensive investment. On top of that, you need to be sure you're entrusting your critical assets to a worthy provider. That's why we assembled this guide to colocation SLAs, designed to help you get the best cost agreement possible while still ensuring your assets' security.
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Colocation vs Cloud: Weighing up the enterprise options
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In this e-guide, we'll share case studies from companies who have gone down the colocation route, and take a look at some of the latest developments to affect this part of the wider datacentre market.
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How to escape the legacy storage bottleneck
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Discover in this product overview how Pure Storage offers a solution to the data storage bottleneck with Evergreen//One, transforming your storage ecosystem into a highly efficient, subscription-based service.
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Datacentre design and facilities: What you need to know
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In this e-guide, we take a look at some of the latest thinking and trends around datacentre design, while shining a light on the differing approaches organisations take to ensure their server farms remain up and running, and can withstand all the compute demands expected of them.
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This E-Guide defines "cloud washing" and distinguishes popular buzzwords from true cloud offerings.
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Data Center Facilities for IT E-Book, Chapter 4: Data Center Design and Build Out
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In this expert e-book, learn how to visualize each phase of your data center construction project and its energy usage. Use this guide to help ensure that your data center renovation project will go as smoothly as it can. Discover strategic topics such as: the true cost of construction, design firm selection criteria, and much more.
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A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to Colocation
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Colocation is an increasingly appealing option for data storage. In this 17-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at the constraints of migration, environmental considerations and datacentre opportunities in Africa.
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Defining the datacentre needs of 21st century enterprises
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This guide is designed to provide IT leaders with some insight into how their peers are addressing current problems through the use of cloud and colocation, and shine a light on how the analyst community sees the role of the datacentre changing over time.
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European colocation growth trends: Under the microscope
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In this e-guide, we'll take a close look at how the European colocation market is performing as a whole, as well as looking ahead to some of the challenges the sector's biggest players face when it comes to ensuring the growth they have enjoyed in recent years continues despite the instability caused by political, environmental and economic events.
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CW APAC, May 2022: Trend Watch: Datacentres
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Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
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The demand from the hyperscale cloud and internet companies for colocation capacity continued to cast a long shadow over the datacentre sector in 2019, and served to ensure a number of the trends that have influenced the news cycle in previous years continued to play out. Here's a look back over Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2019.
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Case study: Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space
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ITIL lifestyle management: Benifits to consolidation strategy
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Top 10 datacentre stories of 2018
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There is nothing like a datacentre outage to highlight just how reliant the digital economy is on these facilities, with the 2018 news cycle dominated by tales of server rooms going awry and causing mass disruption to end users across the globe. Here's a look back over Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2018.
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Nordics are leading the datacentre revolution
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The Nordic region has space, access to renewable energy, a cool climate and a well-educated workforce. All these things make it a great place to build a datacentre. Read in this e-guide how the Nordic region is leading the datacentre revolution.
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CIO Trends #9: Nordics
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Type: eGuide
In this issue we take a look at how three banks in Finland are working together so they can free up resources that will help them keep pace with the tech changes in the industry. Also in this issue we look closely at the cloud first policy at shipping giant Maersk.
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APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
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Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are planning to reduce their datacentre footprint, relying instead on colocation facilities to improve IT efficiency and connectivity to the growing number of cloud-based services that they have come to rely on.
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Computer Weekly - 23 February 2021: Computers in space - managing a datacentre on the ISS
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, as the International Space Station gets a datacentre upgrade, we look at the challenges of system maintenance in space. As nation states increase their cyber attacks, we assess the risk for businesses. And our latest buyer's guide looks at the colocation market. Read the issue now.
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Best practices for overcoming data management complexity
By: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Type: White Paper
Data management complexity hampers business by creating bottlenecks to innovation and creating additional risk for the organization. And as the volume of data grows, so does the need to simplify data management. Read on to discover how you can overcome risks from edge to cloud to unlock the value of your data.
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Computer Weekly – 20 November 2018: How the Science Museum is moving to the digital age
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how London's Science Museum is dealing with legacy IT to move into the age of digital and data. We examine Nationwide Building Society's move to cloud and DevOps. And we look at how technologies such as machine learning and blockchain are helping to automate global supply chains. Read the issue now.
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CW Nordics August 2019: Copenhagen woos tech startups
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
Copenhagen offers all the advantages startups need to get off the ground and many are setting up with the intention of staying there for the long haul. Also read how Nordic shipping giant Maersk is changing its approach to IT as nimble competitors strip complexity from the business of logistics.
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Computer Weekly - 9 March 2021: Are you ready to return to the office?
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, a year after lockdown began, we look at employers' changing attitudes to returning to the workplace. We find out how the software developer community has coped during the Covid-19 pandemic. And we examine the cyber security concerns prompted by latest social media craze, Clubhouse. Read the issue now.
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CW Middle East - April-June 2021: Qatari financial services regulator launches platform to help combat money laundering
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The Qatar Financial Markets Authority is using a digital platform to enable financial services professionals to assess their knowledge of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.
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Computer Weekly - 2 March 2021: The most influential people in UK technology
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT, and talk to this year's winner, NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson, about an unprecedented year of challenges. Also, we examine the best software patching strategies and see how the pandemic has affected women in tech. Read the issue now.
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Balance data center & cloud to fill 6 digital infrastructure needs
By: Service Express
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According to the latest State of the Data Center Report, 83% of respondents are repatriating workloads from the cloud back to on-premises data centers and colocations, with a close eye on evaluating costs. Discover how to strike a balance between cloud and DC investments by downloading this e-book.
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Amsterdam datacentre industry at a moment of reckoning
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The Netherlands is a fast growing datacentre location, as you can also read in this e-guide, and these constructions are taking up a lot of space and putting pressure on the local electricity grid. Read more about this and more in this e-guide.
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T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh
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T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, claims to have completed the world's largest datacentre rationalisation project, which has seen the number of facilities it operates drop from 89 to 13.
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Will data centers become obsolete?
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Many organizations want to simplify or scale down their data centers -- but they won't disappear. Admins can examine as-a-service options and cloud to offload some applications.
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Datacentre design: Building leaner, greener server farms
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The need for energy efficiency, resiliency and security have, for many years, been the driving forces behind the way that operators have approached building their datacentres. In this e-guide, we take a look at how the need for energy efficiency and sustainability is altering the way operators approach their datacentre builds and designs.
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3 reasons why organizations are shifting to private cloud
By: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Type: White Paper
This white paper delves into the why organizations are increasingly moving workloads to private clouds, including cost efficiency, performance, and innovation. It will reveal key benefits as well as tips for choosing the optimal environment for each workload.Read on to learn how you can get more out of your IT environment.
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A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to datacentre cooling
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
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Effective cooling methods are essential for the running of the datacentre. In this 16-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at how to power them efficiently, the potential of a shift to liquid cooling systems and the most cost-effective methods of datacentre cooling.
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Prefabricated and Micro Datacentres: The Essential Guide
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As debate continues to rage about what role private, enterprise-owned datacentres will play in firms' IT strategies in the years to come, what is becoming clear is that they type of facilities companies rely on are sure to change in line with their evolving business needs.
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Datacentres of tomorrow: What the future holds
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In this e-guide, we take a look at some of the technologies that are being widely-tipped to become a mainstay of datacentres in the future. At the same time, it also touches upon some of the new and emerging technologies that look set to shake-up the way datacentres are managed, monitored, powered and cooled as well.
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By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
It is not uncommon for computer systems to be compromised by a company's own employees. In this week's issue we look at the Sage data breach, which highlights the risk every organisation faces from its staff. Staff are often motivated by revenge, but sometimes internal logins can be compromised, enabling hackers to circumvent firewalls.
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IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 accelerates cloud investments by UK IT leaders
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Computer Weekly 22 January 2019: Moving beyond network boundaries
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Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at how businesses are adapting to the challenges of perimeterless network security. We examine how digital transformation is bringing increased complications for identity and access management. And we ask if public cloud providers are a threat to the funding model for open source software. Read the issue now.
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The need-to-have inventory for Scope 3 GHG emissions management
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The 2021 datacentre news cycle has been dominated by stories about how demand for hyperscale datacentre capacity is continuing to boom, while market watchers grow increasingly concerned about how all this growth is affecting the environment. With this in mind, here's a look back over Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2021.
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Computer Weekly 23 July 2019: How Apollo 11 influenced modern computing
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Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, on the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings we look at the influence Apollo 11 had on modern hardware and software. Our latest buyer's guide examines data protection. And we find out how retailers with physical stores are using technology to respond to the rise of online shopping. Read the issue now.
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IT Priorities 2021 - European Budgets Infographic
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Computer Weekly – 12 January 2021: Can AI ever match the power of the brain?
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Green initiatives are delivering disappointing ROIs for today's data centers
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Computer Weekly – 20 June 2023: How to keep network costs affordable
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In this week's Computer Weekly, as demands for networking performance and speed increase, we examine how to keep a handle on costs. Chip makers are investing in PLC flash technology but some think it won't be worth the effort; we investigate. And we listen in as tech industry leaders and politicians discuss the regulation of AI. Read the issue now.
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