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 

’Russian clouds’ are highly competitive with Western ones - based on the same technologies, but cheaper

Commoditized standard hardware can actually enhance the variety on offer: consider Microsoft and Facebook’s Open Compute strategies

By abstracting the provisioning of storage, organizations can begin to analyze and monitor their storage environment much more effectively

For data that cannot go to the cloud, and for robust backup, object storage could be the answer

We may not have to wait too much longer before data philanthropy is something every company considers as part of their corporate responsibility platform

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

There is a world of difference between the best CFD and the worst

There are new methods for using deep learning to gain actionable insights from rich complex data

It is important that businesses are able to upscale their infrastructure to comply with laws

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

Monitor your racks real time, and you could improve your efficiency without adding great expense.. and avoid some nasty surprises 

Data center managers must now combine edge facilities and cloud services. That makes things more complicated

For years, hard drives have been the weakest link, but now that has changed

Leasing hardware means you can get the technology you need more quickly - and it can benefit the environment too!

In the right hands, computational fluid dynamics can deliver better insights than any other available means

Computational fluid dynamics can model airflow in servers, but a whole data center space is more complex 

There is still a lack of clear policy for Britain’s exit from the EU: the tech sector has an opportunity to lead the debate,

Politics will make us all more conscious of where our data is, while hyperconvergence, SDN and the cloud come of age

A look ahead at what’s in store for enterprise IT over the coming year

Saving energy also saves money

It’s no good having ultra-flexible IT systems, if you can’t deliver predictable performance

The big truck proposed by AWS effectively brings remote locations onto the same LAN (albeit with huge latency)

Moving to OpenStack has many benefits, but you will need to deal with higher labor costs than public cloud