Over-provision is inefficient, but under-provision can hammer performance and reliability. How do you find a balance? 

The industry has fixated on making power and cooling more efficient. Now some elves are showing us how to make the IT kit work better

An impressive amount of work is going into the measurement of application performance. However, sometimes this work is not as consistent and holistic as it could be

UPSs with the right topology, communications and software can contribute to a data center’s DCIM strategy

Computational fluid dynamics can save money and fine tune data centers - but it’s only as good as the assumptions and data on which it is based 

Hyperconverged hardware is growing fast, and so is evidence of the benefits it brings 

It’s high time we took the guesswork out of buying storage, so implementors get the performance they need

There will be a period of uncertainty and adjustment, but business will move forward and embrace the new status quo

Whatever the voting outcome, it is possible that the UK may remain bound by the General Data Protection Regulation

Fewer players means an easier choice, and the industry can proceed with the move to DCSM

Let’s take a look at what object storage is and how it has helped budding digital businesses transform into global online giants

Public cloud has problems, but private clouds fail. Maybe the answer is hyperconvergence

Hyperconvergence promises the answer to the “data tax”

The demand for colocation in Russia was lower than market expectations

You know that your IT demands will change. How do you plan to handle that?

For too long, some organisations have “presumed” consent, worked with “implied” permission and experienced data losses which have taken months to detect

Earlier this year, when UK domain registrar 123-reg accidentally deleted a lot of servers, it provided a wake-up call on data backup

As the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is finally published - it’s time to determine your response

Data center growth is not the problem. The skills crisis is caused by changes in technology, and your solution will depend on what you actually want from your data center 

The end of Safe Harbor brought some turmoil, but it’s also brought a chance to really build for the future

According to research, hyperconverged infrastructure customers increased time spent on innovation and new projects from 16% to 29%

The agility and flexibility created by SDI are, of course, essential advantages; but they come with a price

Both software-defined storage and hyper-converged appliances provide useful tools for supporting the new class of applications

SDN has great potential, but OpenFlow was initially limited by its dependence on expensive memory devices. New ASICs have changed all that