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SPECIAL FEATURE:
Cabling, enclosures,
cabinets & racks
OPINION:
The role of data
centres as smart
city enablers
INTERVIEW:
David Griffi ths
of Tintri talks
exclusively to DCN
04 Welcome 40 Hybrid cloud
The stuff that makes IT work Indonesia poised for data centre growth Dr Malcolm Murphy of Infoblox
highlights the importance of intelligent
network automation in controlling,
securing and analysing next generation
data centre and cloud environments
16 Centre of Attention 42 Projects & agreements
Martin Brown of Dell EMC Commercial
discusses how back end infrastructure will
need to be tailored to support artificial
intelligence and machine learning Ascent acquires data centres in Atlanta
and Toronto
07 Industry News
20 Meet Me Room
David Griffiths of Tintri talks about the
biggest changes he has seen in the data
centre industry
49 Products & innovations
Brocade extends Gen 6 Fibre Channel
portfolio
SPECIAL FEATURE:
Cabling, enclosures,
cabinets & racks
25 Neil Staley of Excel discusses
the importance of a solid
airflow strategy within the
data centre
36 Smart cities 55 Final Thought
Jocelyn Paulley of Gowling WLG
discusses the role of data centres as
smart city enablers Jon Leppard of Future Facilities considers
how the Investigatory Powers Act might
affect the data centre
26 Luca Rozzoni at Chatsworth
Products explains how to
select the best infrastructure
for your data centre
28 Liesbet De Soomer at Dymo
highlights the importance
of cable labelling within the
data centre
31 Oene-Wim Stallinga of
Nexans discusses why
infrastructure design and
cabling must adapt in order
to keep up with the times
34 Lee Griffiths of APC by
Schneider Electric explains
why digitalisation and the IoT
require a forward thinking
approach for reliabilty,
security and delivery of
business critical IT services
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