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SPECIAL FEATURE
Cooling
Meet me room
Mark Panico of
Legrand talks
pressure, projects
and predicting the
future
OPINION
Brendan Leonard
of Stulz discusses
the benefi ts of free
cooling and how it
can optimise your
data centre
04 Welcome 36 Big Data
Keeping it cool. Stewart Langdown MSLL of Mackwell,
discusses the challenges we face with
Big Data and the opportunities that
lie ahead.
06 Industry News
Money to burn: If UK businesses are
spending over £1m recovering from data
security breaches, why is security still so
low on the agenda?
12 Centre of Attention
Do analytics equal intelligence? Cameron
Jones, principal product manager at Blue
Medora talks business intelligence in the
age of predictive analytics.
15 Meet Me Room
Mark Panico of Legrand talks pressure,
projects and predicting the future. We
even get to meet his dog.
30 Game Plan
In a hybrid generation, Jackson Lee of
Colt talks about the importance of a
hybrid data centre strategy.
33 ExtraHop
Colin Pittham of ExtraHop, discusses the
importance of cloud migration readiness.
38 Prime Location SPECIAL FEATURE:
Bruce Garrison of Zayo explains
why relocation to the Nordics should
be an attractive prospect for data
centre managers. 18 Jeff Underwood of Geist
40 Projects and
Agreements
Aruba is set to open the largest data
centre campus Italy has ever seen.
46 Products and
Innovations
Resilience against advanced attacks
from Bitdefender.
52 Final Thought
Dirk Paessler, CEO of Paessler talks
future proofing the data centre using
IT monitoring.
Cooling
discusses chimney airflow
management within the
data centre.
22 Paul Lin Sr of Schneider
Electric explains how an
integrated approach to data
centre cooling could lower
energy costs.
24 Timothy Arnold, of Six
Degrees Group, discusses the
benefits of liquid cooling.
26 Brendan Leonard of Stulz
talks about the benefits of
free cooling and how it can
optimise your data centre.
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