Air management should be driven by the needs of the equipment, not maintaining a tech’s oasis somewhere out on the raised floor

In the tech industry we’ll be hard-pressed to keep the lights on, much less cure death or colonize Mars if we don’t bridge the talent gap. Fortunately, we needn’t look far to do that

Multi-cloud brings together public and private cloud, as well as legacy architectures, which can then all be governed and controlled alongside each other

A few releases from the data center industry could be spreading confusion 

It’s time to have a migration strategy

Old buildings have found new uses as data centers, perhaps old data centers will live again too

Singapore will place requirements on critical infrastructure players. That’s an opportunity for the industry to provide managed security services

For services to respond quickly, data must be stored and managed locally

Sometimes technologies become ubiquitous, beyond the need for cost-justification

A majority of data centers have some sort of DCIM, and they are saving money 

There are several tools and techniques to ensure that the on-premises cloud infrastructure and data are secure and safe

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