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Vol. 5 | Issue 2
August 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
Cooling
16 Sander Elvik of ICTroom
INSIDE…
Vol. 5 | Issue 02 | August 2016
SPECIAL FEATURE:
COOLING
CASE STUDY:
PRODUCTS &
INNOVATIONS:
EMCOR UK CONNECTS
WOKING BOROUGH
COUNCIL
HD FLEX 2.0 FIBRE
CABLING SYSTEM
FROM PANDUIT
discusses the future of
data centre cooling and its
environmental impact
20 Tim Bound of Transtherm
Cooling Industries has five
maintenance tips for your
cooling system
22 Rik Williams of Node 4
gives some guidance on
how to choose the right
cooling system
4 Welcome
32 Big Data
What to look out for in this issue
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Industry News
Partha Sen of Fuzzy Logix discusses the
need for speed in analysing the deluge of
data now facing firms
All the latest news, views and industry
information
10 Centre of Attention
Ian Shave of IBM examines the real
value of converged and hyper-converged
infrastructure.
13 Meet Me Room
Ward Williams of ProLabs talks to DCN
about the problem of international tax, and
remembering where he left his fishing rod
30 Hybrid integration
Ashwin Viswanath of Talend explains how
hybrid integration can help businesses
overcome the challenges emerging from
digital business
34 Case study
Russell Drury reports on the long term
collaboration between Emcor UK and
Woking Borough Council.
37 Projects & agreements
High profile installations and contract
agreements
44 Products & innovations
The latest and greatest products and
systems designed for the data centre
50 Final Thought
Could the end of Moore’s law unleash
a new wave of creativity? asks Darren
Watkins of Virtus
24 Steve Davis of Next
Generation Data gives
some guidance on how to
get more efficiency out of
your cooling system
28 Dave Wolfenden of
Heatload discusses the
importance of marrying
computational fluid dynamics
with real time monitoring
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