Ravi Chalaka, senior director, product and solutions marketing, BlueArc looks at the development of pNFS

Mark Heather, legal consultant at Nabarro LLP, looks at preparation for IT outsourcing

Derek Jackman, EMEA VP at Gigamon, discusses how intelligent Network Traffic Visibility solutions can help companies improve the performance, stability and efficiency of their infrastructure.  By understanding how to ‘bridge the gap’ between increasingly pervasive network infrastructure and the monitoring and security tools deployed on the network, owners of data centres can expect to realise dramatic improvements in infrastructure performance and stability.

Paddy Falls, CTO, Neverfail (below) looks at effective strategies for business continuity

Raritan looks at how to provide a safe KVM environment

Robert Waldie, VP business development UK, Opengear, looks at how lights-out management and virtualisation has changed out-of-band server management in the data centre.

Amanda Dunn, director of business development, EMEA at PEER 1 Hosting tells DCM how Microsoft HPC and PEER 1 Hosting have brought hosted Supercomputing to the financial services sector

SGI recently completed a project for The Oxford Supercomputing Centre, who provide the HPC services for Oxford University. DCM found out how the project was managed and implemented