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TF1 | Interxion 36 | Facilities
New partnerships required
News:
With Power Comes Responsibility
A special technology focus from Interxion
Businesses today not only recognise the
06 | Headlines
on current technological trends and eco-
inherent value of corporate data, they are
08 | Servers
efficiency in the modern datacentre with actively looking for better, more econom-
10 | Storage
contributions from : The 451 Group, APC,
ic ways to secure, manage and use this
12 | Applications
Connections4London (C4L), and Uniflair.
primary resource to strengthen the bot-
13 | Security
14 | Hosting
tom line.
20 | Strategies
16 | Networks/Telecoms
Data centre metrics
50 | This Life
A key element in understanding data
38 | Management
centre energy efficiency is being able to
What does the future hold?
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measure the current energy efficiency
The mega data centre is rapidly moving
and quantifying the affects of subsequent
centre stage as organisations look to vir-
changes made to the data centre infra-
tualisation, consolidation and centralisa-
structure on this measurement.
tion to achieve cost reduction and corpo-
rate social responsibility objectives.
22 | End User Focus
Guarding intellectual capital
41 | Management
Nic Barnes, Director, Head of Solutions
Managing complex infrastructure
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Engineering Europe Middle East & Africa
Predictive intelligence – this forward-
looking IT management approach and
(EMEA) at Merrill Lynch, spoke recently
corresponding technologies provide the
about the firm’s UK regional data centre,
most effective and efficient line of
which formally opened in 2007.
defence for critical business services.
28 | Facilities
43 | Security
Meeting green power objectives
Keeping virtualisation on track
When a leading university wished to
Getting business applications on board is
implement and operate a powerful new
critical to success of virtualisation.
38 supercomputers within strict energy effi-
ciency parameters, Comtec provided an
46 | Security
advanced APC datacentre environment
Threats from growing traffic volumes
to provide power, cooling and resilience.
As IP traffic volume hits an all time high,
what is the impact of this on threat pro-
33 | Networks
tection and security?
Performance first
The need to shift to performance-based
48 | Security
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network management.
The insider threat
Balancing the requirements of mobility
versus security.
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