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Vol . 5 | Issue 8 February 2017

SPECIAL FEATURE :

19 ” CABINETS , RACKS & ENCLOSURES
Quality … Reliability … Aff ordability …

Infrastructure management

24 Andreas Haas at Siemens
highlights the importance
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SPECIAL FEATURE : INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
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SHOW PREVIEW : DATA CENTRE WORLD
CASE STUDY : DIMENSION DATA AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE
of having the correct infrastructure management systems in place to protect a data centre ’ s assets
28 Steve Beber of Trackit
explains the benefits of data
centre auditing
04 Welcome On your bike
06 Industry News All the latest news , views and industry information
12 Centre of Attention Richard Agnew of Veeam assesses the enterprise argument for hybrid cloud
15 Meet Me Room Nathan Owen of Blue Medora looks back at the time the Internet was the ‘ next big thing ’, and explains what annoys him about industry ‘ buzzwords ’
18 Data Centre World A look ahead to the London event
40 Case study A detailed look at Dimension Data ’ s work behind the scenes at the Tour De France
44 Intelligent systems Robert Farmer of Ipswitch discusses the intelligent systems IT complexity paradox
46 Information security Steve Mulroy of Kodak Alaris explains why organisations should adopt a holistic approach to information security
49 Mainframe technology John Procter of Rocket Software asses why , years after their introduction , we are still heavily reliant on mainframes
52 Projects & agreements Hyve and Delete deliver a Premier League digital platform
58 Products & innovations Crestchic launches new trailered loadbanks
62 Final Thought Shaun Lynn of Agilitas examines the changing data centre environment
32 Dennis O ’ Sullivan of Eaton encourages a more holistic approach to data centre infrastructure management
34 Rich Fenton of Nimble Storage takes an application centric approach to infrastructure management
38 Matt Lane of Geist assesses the growth of SaaS infrastructure management systems
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