The Digital Britain report proposes a raft of changes which could establish the UK as a leader in the digital economy, but these efforts may be hampered by the cost and complexity of powering them. Jim Smith, CTO of Digital Realty Trust

As well as our two-day conference in London on 10-11 November, DatacenterDynamics held events across the world, from Central America (Mexico City  pictured, in October) to forthcoming events in Dubai and  Amsterdam in November 2009

Microsoft's most efficient data center thus far has just opened for business in Dublin, and it will use practically nothing but free air for cooling. Here, we examine how Microsoft has created this center of efficiency

Designed by Fox Architects, Emerson recently opened its data center in Missouri – with certification in mind

Virtualization firm was not going for an architectural marvel, focusing solely on functionality and efficiency

HP's Wade Vinson is known in some quarters as 'The Podfather.' He, and others, are finding customers want containers for un-expected purposes

Manos: TUI's data center tier system "victim of its own success"

Neal D. Smith, Intel Data center manager, takes us on a walk through of a two floor configuration Intel data center taking in everything from power to chilled water cooling and its hot aisle/cold aisle set up

The UK government's Digital Britain report cited its plans for an ongoing data center consolidation strategy, but the problem is, no one knows much about it

A report by IT industry association Intellect has warned that the foundations for rebuilding the UK’s economy post-recession could be de-stabilised without a clear data center strategy

Tax breaks, energy efficiency and research were among the reasons cited for the data center building spree

Part 5 of IBM Global Technology Services' paper on data centre topology design

Part 4 of IBM Global Technology Services’ paper on data centre topology design

Part 3 of IBM Global Technology Services’ paper on data centre topology design

IBM Global Technology Services offers a method for designing data centre topology. (Part 1 of a 5-part series)

Part 2 of IBM Global Technology Services’ paper on data centre topology design

rPath pitches its approach to dealing with VM sprawl

DCD Seattle: New and wholly state-owned and operated data center to go up in Olympia despite arguments over its location and scale

Overcoming negative public perception and technically challenged members of authority can often be the first task when seeking permission to build a data cente

Opinion: Red electricity, server huggers, security, flood plains and flightpaths stand in the way of data centre building programmes to support the UK government’s plans for Digital Britain, says Derek Webster.