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INTERVIEW:
SPECIAL FEATURE:
Design & Facilities
Management
OPINION:
A runner’s guide to
data centres
Conor McGrath of
Retarus joins DCN
in the Meet Me
Room
04 Welcome 34 Load balancers
Sick and vulnerable Ranga Rajagopalan of Avi Networks
explains four strategies for optimising
load balancers and application
performance
07 Industry News
Organisations unprepared for 2018
European Data Protection Regulation
12 Centre of Attention
Gary Quinn of FalconStor looks at how
organisations can achieve the most from
their data and what the IT team need to
be doing to achieve this
14 Meet Me Room
Conor McGrath of Retarus discusses data
centre security – and riding dinosaurs!
32 Legacy
An expert from GCHQ looks at life
after legacy
36 Managed service
providers
Why do more organisations now
consider service providers vital for digital
transformation? Russell Drury gets the
views of two industry experts
39 Projects & agreements
MainOne announces Sagamu investment
44 Products & innovations
Excel enhances fibre offering
48 Final Thought
Rob Garbutt of LDeX Group explains
what to consider when hosting an App
SPECIAL FEATURE:
Design & facilities
management
17 Nick Carter of Ramboll
explores whether the location
of future UK data centres
should be determined by the
potential to recycle energy
20 Ralph Mannion of Kingspan
Access Floors discusses raised
flooring systems in a data
centre
24 Fresh thinking and new
ideas are vital to maintain
the ongoing improvement
in data centre design and
management, argues Zac
Potts of Sudlows
28 Data centres are faster,
smarter and more important
than ever, says Jonathan
Arnold of Volta
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