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Vol. 4 | Issue 11
May 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
Design & facilities
management
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Vol. 4 | Issue 11 | May 2016
SPECIAL FEATURE:
PRODUCTS &
INNOVATIONS:
DESIGN & FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT
HI-DEX FROM BRANDREX GOES MULTIMEDIA
18 Richard Clifford of Keysource
explains the importance of
‘design for operation’
OPINION:
APPRENTICESHIPS
IN THE DATA CENTRE
INDUSTRY
20 Kevin Brown of Schneider
Electric questions whether
the impact of the IT load
is more important than a
low PUE
24 Martin Pearce of Critical
46 Products & innovations
The latest and greatest products and systems designed for the data centre
4 Welcome
36 Data protection
What to look out for in this issue
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Industry News
Tom Lingard and Aidan Grant of Stevens
& Bolton LLP explain why you can’t
just scrape by when it comes to data
protection
All the latest news, views and industry
information
12 Centre of Attention
Ensuring your security strategy adds
value, by Rick Orloff of Code42
14 Meet Me Room
Paraglider Chris Plant of Atlantis
Computing discusses some of the biggest
changes he is seeing in the industry
32 Apprenticeships
Russell Poole and Tom Davy give an
insight into the apprenticeship programme
in place at Equinix
38 Software as a Service
Daniel Horton of Parker Software looks at
the top three considerations you need to
make when choosing your data centre
42 Projects & agreements
Power discusses the true
importance of what you
are looking to support and
protect in the data centre
26 Lowie Van Rymenant of
Pentair discusses the
methods to ensure service
availability in a world of
Big Data
30 John Grenville of ECEX
discusses the importance of
effective maintenance
High profile installations and contract
agreements
52 Final Thought
Daniel Hobson of Pulsant explains why
professional services are the key to data
centre success
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