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Edge data centres under stress: How to keep networks up and running in the ‘hybrid’ working age

Edge Computing is an area of technology that has experienced rapid growth since the pandemic. Alan Stewart-Brown, VP EMEA, Opengear, discusses how Edge Computing is capable of transforming the data centre landscape. The traditional data centre has been a mainstay of computing and connectivity networks for decades, with most processing transactions being carried out in […]


The rise of the hyperscalers and how they’re setting benchmarks for future performance expectations

Steve Hone, CEO – The DCA, discusses the benefits of hyperscale data centres and how they are set to dominate data centre spending. The number of hyperscale data centres currently stands at just over 700 worldwide – a figure which represents a doubling in both the number of hyperscale data centres and capacity in just […]


World-class data centre solution secures future for SRS

Shared Resource Service (SRS) made the decision to move to Vantage Data Centers’ CWL1 data centre campus in the UK, offering an affordable and future-proofed private cloud hosting environment for delivering shared digital services to the South Wales public sector. Matt Lewis, Chief Operating Officer at SRS, explains how the organisation now has a more […]


Microsoft, Databricks and other leading giants show data analytics solutions at BYTES 2022

With ASEAN rapidly trying to leverage the potential of data, BYTES 2022 – ASEAN, a two-day virtual summit, provided the necessary platform to the key industry stakeholders and experts to share their vision, insights and collaborate with peers and solution providers to power data-driven organizations. ASEAN, 22nd April, 2022: Amidst skyscraping digitization drives in Southeast […]


Nexsan: Using storage solutions to scale  

Massive data growth has changed the way SMEs operate, with it becoming increasingly critical for small businesses to store, protect and manage their data at scale. We explore how two US-based organisations used solutions from Nexsan to ensure their data was secure and scalable.    Wyoming Surgical Associates, PC deploys Nexsan E-Series P storage platform to […]


Reaping the benefits of Smart City technology in Africa

As Smart Cities emerge across the globe, there is a ‘huge opportunity’ in Africa to embrace and evolve towards this concept. This is the view of Mahmoud El-Banna, Head of Digital Industries Sales for China, India and MEA at Nokia. He talks us through some of the existing and new initiatives in the region, as […]


Stress Awareness Month: Turning Talk into Action

April is Stress Awareness month, a month designed to highlight the dangers of the modern stress epidemic. As Anne Tiedemann, SVP People & Investor Relations at Glasswall, said: “Stress is unavoidable and the workplace is often one of the most stressful environments that we experience. Research by the CIPD found that 79% of HR leaders […]


Data residency: Creating a frictionless experience

Avoiding unnecessary friction when it comes to data residency is a high priority for business leaders. Darragh Curran, CTO, Intercom, offers some top tips on the best approaches to turn what might seem like a complex and risky infrastructure project, to something much more manageable. For large enterprise businesses with global size and scale, privacy […]


Deep Dive: Aron Brand, CTO, CTERA

We ‘deep dive’ with Aron Brand, CTO, CTERA, who tells us about life inside and outside the office. What would you describe as your most memorable achievement in the data centre industry? Perhaps my most memorable achievement has been receiving my first patent on the concept of Edge-to-cloud storage. The patent describes a device for integrating […]


Scoping a more circular approach to net zero in the data centre 

A zero-waste circular economy enables data centre IT resources to be kept in use for as long as possible. Here, Andrew Gomarsall MBE, Executive Chairman, N2S, explains why a circular IT economy is key to both effective energy reduction and e-waste, and how to go about managing data centre operations in order to achieve this. […]


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