Data Center Consolidation Reports

EBOOK: 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.

Posted: 25 Jan 2022 | Published: 25 Jan 2022

AUDIO FILE: In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Clare McDonald, Brian McKenna and Caroline Donnelly discuss the 2021 A-level and GCSE computing results, what algorithms are and are not good for, and the water consumption habits of datacentres, and their environmental impact.

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 | Published: 19 Aug 2021

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, read more about the rise of India as a cloud powerhouse, what major suppliers are doing in the market and an expert's take on the importance of having a cloud operating model to drive business outcomes from cloud initiatives.

Posted: 26 Jul 2021 | Published: 27 Jul 2021

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 20 Jul 2021 | Published: 20 Jul 2021

EGUIDE: In this e-guide: Simplifying the deployment and management of datacentre hardware systems is one of the main draws of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure setups for enterprises.

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 | Published: 26 Mar 2021

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 | Published: 15 Mar 2021

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 28 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 09 Jan 2019

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, read about hybrid IT's growing mindshare in ASEAN, Red Hat's hybrid cloud container push and what you need to consider when buying hyper-converged infrastructure systems.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 24 May 2018

EGUIDE: In this guide, we take a deep-dive into the benefits of converged infrastructure and find out why this is an area of hardware spend CIOs are increasingly turning their attention to, with a view to investing more of their IT budgets in.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 26 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 18 Apr 2016

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Emerson Network Power's Energy Logic, a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency, can deliver a 50% or greater reduction in energy consumption without compromising performance or availability.

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for expert insights to help IT admins get familiar with the new availability and storage features of vSphere 5.1. Learn how the next-gen features can transform your IT environment today.

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 | Published: 29 Jul 2013

ANALYST REPORT: This FOCUS report of key findings presents the highlights of an end-user survey conducted in April 2009, outlining the current state of virtualization adoption, pain points, barriers to expansion, and management requirements.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This white paper looks at ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and a number of pain points that have developed in recent years, as computer systems have become packed more densely within the datacenter. Read on to learn how Sun Microsystems can help.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

EZINE: Virtualization has changed the concept of configuration management in data centers. In this month's issue, find out what to look for when shopping for the perfect configuration management tool. Virtualization has also had an impact on system security. Learn how to keep your virtual environment safe.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript features Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Today Badineau would like to talk to you a little bit about driving efficiency within your data center and how you can reduce cost by reducing the amount of duplicate data that maybe in your environment.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WEBCAST: Watch how Langan Engineering & Environmental Services was able to increase availability and reduce data center energy consumption simultaneously, with the help of Emerson Network Power.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 7, 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn about tools being developed to balance workload and improve thermal management in the data center. Access now to discover predictive information - combined with server virtualization, a service-oriented architecture and digital power and operating system controls - can optimize operating efficiencies and reduce costs by 20-30%.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center.

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million.

Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

EBOOK: Virtualization is changing the disaster recovery landscape. This E-Book is a beginners' guide to virtualization with chapters on disaster recovery (DR), test and development, server consolidation, high availability, storage, security and key technologies including VMware ESX,Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009