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Vol. 5 | Issue 4
October 2016
data centre news
SPECIAL FEATURE:
w w w. d a t a c e n t r e n e w s . c o . u k
Green IT
18 Gary Watson of Nexsan
Six Degrees Group
Where will our technology take
your business?
INSIDE…
Vol. 5 | Issue 04 | October 2016
SPECIAL FEATURE
GREEN IT
CASE STUDY
VXTREAM CHOOSES
VOLTA’S LONDON DATA
CENTRE
INDUSTRY NEWS
EUROPEAN DATA
CENTRE ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCES NEW
MANAGING DIRECTOR
explores how IT
professionals can save
power and costs through
the use of green IT, without
limiting performance
20 Jorge Balcells of Verne
Global explores the optimal
locations for providing
abundant renewable energy
resources, and whether
green resources are actually
always truly green
4 Welcome
36 Cloud connectivity
What to look out for in this issue
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Industry News
Chadwick Kinlay of Epsilon explains how
data centre operators can sell and deliver
complete cloud solutions
All the latest news, views and industry
information
12 Centre of Attention
Satheesh Jacob of Ramboll looks at
the threats posed to data centres by
extreme weather.
15 Meet Me Room
Mathias Golombek of Exasol tells us
how he ended up working in IT after a
promising football career beckoned.
30 VPS
Hiren Parekh of OVH offers up five
reasons to choose a virtual private server
32 Cooling
38 Case study
Russell Drury finds out why vXtream
chose Volta’s London data centre to
house its assets
40 Projects & agreements
High profile installations and contract
agreements
44 Products & innovations
The latest and greatest products and
systems designed for the data centre
22 Marc Naese of Panduit
outlines some best
practices to consider for
maximising the energy
efficiency of a data centre
26 Mark Seymour of Future
Facilities explains why
The Green Grid’s new
Performance Indicator (PI)
has the potential to further
transform the industry and our
increasingly connected society
48 Final Thought
Sam Mager of Krome assesses the
evolution of virtualisation
Matthew Baynes of Schneider Electric
discusses some cooling options for
data centres
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