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

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.

During economically-challenged times, datacentre consolidation projects remain an attractive way of saving costs – but what are the critical challenges that must be faced to ensure success? Adopting an application or service-centric led strategy is key to successful consolidation programmes. Kevin Gunner, senior consultant at C&C Technology Consulting explains….