Data Center Management Reports

EGUIDE: Data center interconnect, or DCI, is technology that links two or more data centers together so they can share resources. DCI technology offers many options and reacts differently with other areas of networking. This e-guide explores the benefits and challenges of DCI, as well as how it interacts with other technologies.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 10 Feb 2020

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

WHITE PAPER: Third-party maintenance can give back control of your equipment life cycle, reduce long-term maintenance costs, and help maximize data center investments. Inside, learn how to accurately weigh the pros and cons of switching away from traditional OEM support.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 23 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: With the waning of global uncertainties, businesses are redoubling investments in IT as they anticipate revenue growth, but their spending patterns are continually shifting. This infographic shows Gartner 2020 IT spending forecast.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 21 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: If CIOs ever needed a reminder of the predatory cyber criminals that circle their organisations, Travelex's woes are a big one. Also find out how Saudi Arabia could become the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. Read more about it in this issue of our CIO Trends Middle East series.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: If CIOs ever needed a reminder of the predatory cyber criminals that circle their organisations, Travelex's woes is a big one. Also find out how close autonomous ships are to regularly docking in Dutch ports. Read more about it in this issue of our CIO Trends Benelux series.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: The Netherlands is usually seen as a forward-thinking nation when it comes to developing and adopting the latest IT, but it seems its government is not doing particularly well in this respect. Here are Computer Weekly's top enterprise IT in the Benelux region stories of 2019.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 03 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: The Nordic region punches above its weight in IT terms, with a rich tech ecosystem that ranges from clusters of tech startups creating the latest apps to large in-house IT teams transforming traditional industries. Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Nordic enterprise IT stories of 2019.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 23 Dec 2019

EGUIDE: The Netherlands is a fast growing datacentre location, as you can also read in this e-guide, and these constructions are taking up a lot of space and putting pressure on the local electricity grid. Read more about this and more in this e-guide.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 22 Oct 2019

EGUIDE: The Nordic region has space, access to renewable energy, a cool climate and a well-educated workforce. All these things make it a great place to build a datacentre. Read in this e-guide how the Nordic region is leading the datacentre revolution.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 22 Oct 2019

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we'll take a close look at how the European colocation market is performing as a whole, as well as looking ahead to some of the challenges the sector's biggest players face when it comes to ensuring the growth they have enjoyed in recent years continues despite the instability caused by political, environmental and economic events.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 14 Oct 2019

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the impact of climate change on datacentres as potential victims and contributors to the problem. We look at the rise of voice channels and how IT leaders can use the technology for better customer experience. And we ask what lessons must be learned from Ecuador's citizens' data breach. Read the issue now.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 24 Sep 2019

EZINE: The Netherlands has for years attracted datacentre investment and has seen major construction projects. Amsterdam alone has 33 datacentres within a radius of 20km. So when the local authority in Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer called an immediate halt to datacentre construction, it was a shock.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 12 Sep 2019

EGUIDE: Datacentre operator Green Mountain embraces Schneider Electric's pre-fabricated datacentre designs to ensure it is positioned to respond to the growing demand from the hyperscale and HPC communities for colocation capacity in Norway

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 19 Aug 2019

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, a tech expert is set to earn millions after successfully blowing the whistle on vulnerabilities in Cisco's video surveillance software. Our latest buyer's guide examines the issues around big data architecture. And we look at how the end of Windows 7 could spark a new era for desktop productivity. Read the issue now.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 13 Aug 2019

RESOURCE: As a data center admin at your company, you'll be expected to accommodate increasingly complex hybrid and multicloud, DevOps, and AI workloads. So, why not take this time to sharpen your data center skills by reading our exclusive DC skills e-guide? Get it here!

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 03 Oct 2021

EGUIDE: In this issue we take a look at how three banks in Finland are working together so they can free up resources that will help them keep pace with the tech changes in the industry. Also in this issue we look closely at the cloud first policy at shipping giant Maersk.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 30 Jul 2019

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we take a look at some of the outside influences that could potentially impact on datacentre power and management costs in the years to come, while also taking a closer look at some of the latest thinking and best practices around datacentre energy efficiency and cooling today.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 29 May 2019

EGUIDE: In this infographic, we take a look at what technological elements of the datacentre are expected to be the most important in 2019, the most popular datacentre projects and which technologies and services are being deployed. Survey results taken from the 2019 IT Priorities survey carried out by ComputerWeekly.com, ComputerWeekly.de and LeMagIT.fr.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 23 Apr 2019

EGUIDE: T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, claims to have completed the world's largest datacentre rationalisation project, which has seen the number of facilities it operates drop from 89 to 13.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 21 Mar 2019

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we take a look at some of the latest thinking and trends around datacentre design, while shining a light on the differing approaches organisations take to ensure their server farms remain up and running, and can withstand all the compute demands expected of them.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 01 Mar 2019

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at the technologies needed to support deep learning and AI applications in your organisation. We hear about Southern Water's data management overhaul and the benefits achieved from centralising its data team. And we examine best practice in managing large-scale Docker implementations. Read the issue now.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 01 Feb 2019

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: The Netherlands and Belgium might be small in terms of population and land area, but they are leading nations when it comes to the use of technology in society. There are numerous examples of the transformative nature of IT in the Netherlands and Belgium in this top 10, such as plans for autonomous ships and smart city developments.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 02 Jan 2019

EGUIDE: In this review of the top 10 Computer Weekly articles focused on IT in Australia, we look at what the country is doing to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 21 Dec 2018