inside issue 25


News: 04 | Cloud in five years 04 | APM demand grows 05 | DRT in Singapore 05 | Tesco chooses C&W 06 | Interxion in Dublin 06 | Equinix in Silicon 08 | Juniper for Copper 09 | As safe as houses


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10 | Newscentre Data centre design


Emerging trends in data center design mean that new data centers will be able to provide a 300 percent growth in capacity in 60 percent less space than existing data centers.


12 | Newscentre Experiencing the ‘Power of 3’


For the second successive year data center, storage and networking profes- sionals converged on Frankfurt at the end of October for the two-day confer- ence programs of SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World.


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15 | 1-2-1 Reducing operational costs by 30 %


The root-and-branch review and restruc- turing of the Mannheimer IT landscape has more than met the business objec- tives, and has also delivered lower oper- ational costs with improved technical performance.


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20 | Infrastructure ‘Just cables’ or mission-critical


connectivity?


DCS talks to ADC Krone’s Mansel Healy about passive infrastructure.


24 | Energy efficiency Data centre contamination, energy


38 wastage and its implications


Contamination, if allowed to accumulate on ICT equipment, can increase its power demand, creating energy wastage and excess CO2 emissions. 8 Solutions recently conducted an independently verified survey to investigate the extent of this problem and the potential for energy savings.


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28 | Virtualisation Get more for less: Active Continuous


Optimisation


Smart devices, wireless technologies and evolutionary employee behaviour place heavy demand on the data centre, caus- ing further overstretching of resources, writes Kevin Cornell, CEO, Veloxum.


30 | Power and cooling Increasing data centre cooling efficiency


The system of removing heat from IT equipment using cooled air and a raised floor environment has served the data centre market well throughout its 40-year life. However, moving large volumes of air over big distances in which hot and cool airstreams mingle, can add to infrastruc- ture inefficiency.


34 | Cabling High Density Fibre Solution for BT


Space today is an expensive commodity, and nowhere more so than in Data Centres. The need to pack ever more equipment including cabling into more and more confined spaces is being driv- en by the increasing costs of the build- ings that house them, and the land they sit on.


38 | IT infrastructure Improving system performance to sup-


port critical research Argonne National Laboratory’s manage- ment needed to find a more cost-effec- tive and efficient way to deliver IT servic- es, centred around the need for stan- dardisation,


42 | This Life


With Dan Smith, Managed Services Director at Retail Assist Ltd


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