Despite infrastructure challenges, India’s data center industry has massive potential, says Sumit Mukhija, in this extract from a DCD Converged interview

Securing applications and data in the cloud is now driven more by practical security concerns rather than hypothetical ones

With machine learning on board, data centers can become smart enough to understand DCIM systems and tune their own performance 

If you use data, store data and specifically use your customers’ information to deliver marketing messages to them, you’re going to have to pay attention to GDPR

As a new surge of building begins, it’s more important than ever that data centers move to renewable energy sources

Now we are placing IT equipment at the edge of the network, we have to apply new security measures… and keep up the existing ones 

Data center owners and operators may have missed the legal requirement referring to environmental controls and the impact on M&E systems

The path to compliance through data governance

Data centers are making things better for the rest of us

To give benefits, an IDCMS must integrate all the other management tools in a data center

The game is changing, and operators choosing a data center location are using different criteria

While politicians do little, the energy industry’s demand side and supply side need to talk. DCD aims to help get the discussion going

Proper asset management and reporting can help the colo deal with changing customers… and mergers and acquisitions

IT experts and facilities managers are in separate silos right now, but there won’t be room for both of them in the data center of the future 

Just because you can do bad things doesn’t mean you should

Edge facilities are important. But are they as  big a revolution as we are told?

Integration, cost and mobility of security tools will be a priority in the next 12 months

You need a cloud-specific security strategy to protect your critical data from an ever-growing variety of advanced threats

All you need to know about the forthcoming EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Managing user expectations needs to be part of the migration strategy from the start

Efforts to bring the web under national laws will force data centers to stay in-country 

Treat your IT engineers well and everyone will benefit

Law firms should always consider the security measures of a cloud provider when choosing the best option for them

Digital transformation will change your infrastructure. DCD invites you to tell us how you are responding to the challenge of becoming “digital first”