Data Center Networking Reports

EGUIDE: Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing customer experience (CX), enabling businesses to create hyper-personalized, efficient, and engaging interactions at scale. From predicting customer needs to delivering proactive solutions, AI empowers companies to foster deeper connections and drive satisfaction

Posted: 16 Dec 2024 | Published: 09 Dec 2024

EZINE: When the war between Hamas and Israel began, cyber security professionals and major government and private organisations braced for an inevitable accompanying online war. In this issue of CW EMEA, we outline cyber war, patterns of threat activity, and find out what security teams can do to protect their organisations. Read the issue now.

Posted: 22 Nov 2023 | Published: 07 Dec 2023

EBOOK: Edge datacentres seem set for a post-pandemic resurgence. In this 17-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at what makes them such an appealing option, the role infrastructure as code has to play and what's driving company adoption.

Posted: 12 May 2022 | Published: 12 May 2022

INFOGRAPHIC: IBM has updated its quantum computing roadmap to reflect how quantum processors, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) will be woven into a compute fabric capable of solving computationally complex problems. Understand why this impacts both hardware installation and software.

Posted: 12 May 2022 | Published: 12 May 2022

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 the guide we look at the fundamentals of NAS and the use cases it best suits, the range of file access storage products available including in the cloud and in hybrid operation between cloud and datacentre. We also examine the question of NAS backup, looking at the challenges that have accompanied it and the solutions available.

Posted: 19 Apr 2021 | Published: 19 Apr 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: CIOs in India have been put to the test as their organisations implement remote work arrangements amid the Covid-19 pandemic. We look at the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on India's IT industry, why a pandemic specific BCP matters and how CIOs can harden up their datacentre equipment supply chains post-Covid-19.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 03 Jun 2020

EGUIDE: From efforts to turn Malaysia's Langkawi island into a 5G testbed to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on sales of 5G devices, the guide offers a range of perspectives from different stakeholders in APAC's 5G nascent ecosystem.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 20 Apr 2020

RESOURCE: Some enterprises have closed down their data centers, but it doesn’t seem likely that another 7 out of 10 enterprise data centers will go offline in just five years. In this brief, learn why a new paradigm is needed to extend the WAN beyond the data center to the multi- and hybrid cloud environment in which the modern enterprise operates.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 17 Mar 2020

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

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: 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: The internet of things is being used to improve storage options. In this 13-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at how the IoT could increase volumes of data, the challenges it may bring, and the role edge processing, analytics and the cloud has to play in increasing profits

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 10 Dec 2018

EGUIDE: In this e-guide we delve into the world of containers. We discover why many enterprises appear to be intent on using the technology to support the remodelling of their legacy applications in microservices. Also, we take a look at why interest in containers has risen thanks to enterprises moving from hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 08 May 2018

EZINE: This year, more enterprises will adopt a "cloud-first" SD-WAN architecture designed to efficiently support their increasingly cloud-based application mix. In this issue of CW ASEAN, we take a closer look at how ASEAN enterprises gearing up for this eventuality.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 12 Apr 2018

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: In this essential guide, we include articles looking at best practice and key technologies in server, storage, networks, DevOps and hyperconverged systems to make the most of your hybrid IT.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 15 Nov 2017

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Companies that leverage data to optimise business processes will not only survive, but thrive during market downturns, and dominate the industry on the next upswing, this report from Quorum argues.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 19 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we take a closer look at how the datacentre sector is taking steps to boost its environmental friendliness, and why.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 22 May 2017

EZINE: In this quarter's CW Middle East ezine, we look at how the Middle East, with the poorest road safety record in the world, could benefit most from self-driving cars.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 12 Jan 2017

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Computer Weekly's CW500 Club heard from IT leaders plotting a roadmap to software-defined everything – this presentation was given by Rob White, executive director of the global database group at Morgan Stanley.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 14 Oct 2016