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editor’s note
A daunting future As the threat of a triple dip recession recedes, it’s clear that the ICT market is enjoying a period of great opportunity and, whisper it quietly, there seem to be plenty of customers ready to invest in Cloud, Big Data and the like. Our headline news story talks of worldwide IT spending in trillions of dollars (which has me remembering, gloomily, that the US debt is also quoted in trillions), but our ‘digitalization’ news story suggests that many CIOs ‘feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future’.
The transition from traditional, internal IT resources to modern, dynamic external managed services is likely to be a long one, as it requires several leaps of faith by enterprise IT managers across the globe. While the history of the IT industry is littered with various milestones, the advent of the Digital Age is, arguably, the most significant milestone, and step change, of all. Evolution – folks doing much the same as they always have, only faster, bigger, modular, even virtual – is giving way to revolution – different ways of working, with much of the underlying infrastructure provided outside of the enterprise.
Whatever one’s reaction to the present IT revolution – scepticism or enthusiasm – the feeling of being overwhelmed is, surely, a near universal one? After all, the data centre has remained the same since Noah was building his Ark (no pun intended), but those in charge are now being asked to re-think everything they have been taught about both the facilities and IT aspects.
If DCS helps our readers to make this daunting journey, then we’re meeting our number one objective.
Phil Alsop Editor
contents
Data Centre Alliance - Monthly Journal 13 Introduction, PEDCA news, committee news 14 Agility matters more than technology
15 Is resilience and operational best practice possible at the same time?
16 Understanding the data on capital allowance tax relief
What’s Hot 04 World news 08 The analyst 18 Open Virtualization Alliance update 20 Powering the Cloud update 22 DCS Awards
Facilities 26 Quality and sustainable infrastructure
30 Energy efficiency for co-location, cloud and hosted IT environments
34 Power, protect, connect 40 Sounding out on data centre noise 46 IIM: Must Haves for mixed environments
ICT 32 What’s shaping Carrier Ethernet? 42 SDN promises benefits 45 Density. Flexibility. Performance
Tripplite
Cloud 24 Procurement technology in the Cloud 38 Mobile IT: Preparing for a revolution 48 Cloud opportunity: defining success
In the Spotlight 50 Steve Willson, Violin Memory
Xchanging
Extreme Networks
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