inside issue 26
News: 05 | Network automation 05 | Biggest challenges 06 | NATO uses cloud 06 | Stringent SLAs 40 | DCW Preview 42 | This Life
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08 | News analysis Cloud computing is the top priority
CIOs must re-imagine IT to support growth and competitive advantage, and expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected.
10 | Event preview 2011 Data Center Awards
Online nominations for The Data Centre Solutions Awards (DCS awards) is extended so do not miss out on your chance to express your opinion on what you believe to be the cases that deserve recognition.
12 | Event preview SNIA Europe Datacenter Technologies
18 Academy
The SNIA Europe Datacenter Technologies Academy program moves into its second year in 2011 reflecting the very latest trends and developments in the application of infrastructure technologies within the modern IT environment.
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14 | Hosting/Colocation Outsourcing market benefits from
OPEX focus
DCS catches up with Greg McCulloch UK Managing Director of Interxion, to discuss the colocation market and how he sees end users grappling with the rapid rate of technology change in the data centre and more general IT space.
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18 | Design/facilities Let’s keep it focused on data centre
efficiency People are increasingly familiar with power usage effectiveness (PUE) - in part as a result of valid efforts from bodies such as a the Green Grid.
February/March 2011
20 | Design/facilities Category 6 cabling could fail
data centres for 10GBASE-T In light of recent industry standards recommendations, global infrastructure experts Siemon warn that Category 6 cabling - still being specified and installed in new data centre projects - is highly likely to fail to deliver 10Gb/s.
22 | CEO focus Data centres undergo a remarkable
transformation
DCS talks to Henry Wasik, CEO at Force10 Networks, to discover how the company is helping its customers get to grips with the current buzz topics, such as convergence, virtualisation and, of course, The Cloud.
29 | Power & cooling Adiabatic cooling for data centres
By increasing the ASHRAE limits, consultants have an opportunity to explore alternative design solutions focusing on reducing the air conditioning energy consumption of the data centre.
33 | Power & cooling Energy efficiency - top of the agenda
Data centre managers need to juggle carbon efficiency with high resilience and low TCO.
36 | 1-2-1 Coping with the growing demand for
bandwidth
DCS talks to Ciena’s Steve Alexander, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
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