Data Centre Management, Julian Payne, head of data products, Cable & Wireless looks at consolidation.
Today’s multinational organisations are looking to reduce costs in the face of a toughening economic environment and rapidly increasing energy costs. Gartner recently issued a stark statement which highlights the scale of the challenge “power hungry hardware and rising fuel prices could lead to energy costs eating up more than one third of IT budgets within the next 5 years”.

Total Fitness is one of the UK's leading health and fitness operators.This is how Solution1 helped to expand its membership database by using network technology

As data centres age and companies find it difficult to meet expansion demands from within the business, more and more companies will find themselves searching for a temporary solution for temperature control and power generation, says one of the UK’s leading energy rental solutions specialists.

Justin Hamilton-Martin, managing director, 8el an established communications provider focused on managed voice and data communications solutions, says that it is possible to cut the cost of telecoms

Across the globe, enterprises are responding to increased pressure to adopt greener networking strategies in their data centres. Until now, this has often resulted in increased

Allard Van der Horst, director of applications, Phyworks looks at the pros and cons of copper cabling and interconnects

Connectix says that there are a number of choices of cabling system, and all have their pros and cons

Adam Davison, VP sales EMEA, Expand Networks takes a look at WAN optimisation techniques