UK headquartered telecom player COLT has just launched the latest element in its growing Cloud offering – Cloud Infrastructure Services, which aims to alleviate CIO’s dayto- day concerns around managing business risk, improving enterprise services and reducing costs.

Data centers are still not being managed in the most optimal manner, analyst group IDC has warned, and the adoption of virtualisation has added yet another management wrinkle.

A combination of ongoing data center manager scepticism and possible lack of clarity around power requirements is still challenging its acceptance writes Nick Booth

NetApp says new deal not likely to extend market reach, but will create new opportunities with existing clients

Paul Boyns, head of IT strategy and policy at the BBC, talks us through the corporation's data centers

Steve Sams, VP Global site & facilities Global Technology Services, IBM

Fabio Banducci, CEO, PEER1 Networks

Cisco makes a giant splash by introducing its Unified Computing System (rivals react), the Internet gets its own data center, DCD hosts its largest NYC event and more...

A holistic approach to refresh parameters is needed so variables such as economics, energy, operations and Total Cost of Ownership can be evaluated fairly. DLB Associates conducts an evaluation.

Recent announcements continue the low-energy trend, with new records being set

Don Beaty PE - President, DLB Associates

AT&T; and Sun combine behind the cloud, as Google announces customers, and others expand their services

Val Bercovici, CTO, NetApp

Gartner: no end in sight to the industry’s sorest spots

The once fledgling data centre industry is now showing signs of maturity but when it comes to addressing power management we need to up our game, says Andy Ruhan

A US Air Force contractor shares tips for handling incidents in a virtualised environment

Some people want more regulation for the cloud. Some suppliers are saying that you can move to the cloud while keeping your data in a specific data center to comply with national laws. Users are concerned and policy makers taking note. Will every country need its own cloud data centers?

Company to continue focusing on reducing the physical footprint of storage in data centers

An extract from a detailed white paper by Jonathan G Koomey, Christian Belady, Michael Patterson, Anthony Santos and Klaus-Dieter Lange examines the energy cost of servers

Policy based storage allocation will save power in the long run but most systems are not ready for it