Gartner says beware of the data lake fallacy

The growing hype surrounding data lakes is causing substantial confusion in the information management space, according to Gartner, Inc. Several vendors are marketing data lakes as an essential component to capitalise on Big Data opportunities, but there is little alignment between vendors about...

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Schneider Electric provides prefabricated data centre for Baidu

Schneider Electric has won the bid from Baidu to build an M1 containerized (prefabricated) data centre with Schneider Electric’s prefabricated data centre solutions. As Baidu’s first prefabricated data centre project, the eco-friendly data centre will feature fast deployment, low input...

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Pan-European Data Centre Alliance project takes expertise to Poland

Worldwide data centre industry representative body The Data Centre Alliance is running a series of free-to-attend workshops in Warsaw as part of the EU commission funded PEDCA (Pan-European Data Centre Alliance) Project.

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Huawei releases Data Center 3.0 architecture white paper

Huawei has released a white paper entitled “Data Center (DC) 3.0 Architecture” that...

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Colt Technology Services and Virtustream partner

Leading European service provider and US Enterprise Cloud Software provider enable mission-critical...

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IT budgets and hiring stabilise in 2014

Complexity expected to grow in 2015 as IT budgets rise while IT departments feel a hiring squeeze.

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US$1 trillion to be spent on telecom and datacom over next five years

Market research firm Infonetics Research released data from its 2014 Telecom and Datacom Network...

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Belden opens China plant

Belden Inc has begun producing industrial connectors in China.

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TalkTalk specifies Synapsys power monitoring

The SIPp power monitoring solution from Synapsys is helping TalkTalk ensure continuity of its...

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Mayflex partners with IM&M

Mayflex, the cabling infrastructure, networking and electronic security solutions distributor, has...

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Gyrocom welcomes Peter Halls as Non-Executive Chairman

IT infrastructure specialist Gyrocom welcomes Peter Halls as Non-executive Chairman and advisor to...

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SMEs ignore important role of IT Manager at their own risk, warns Node4

Independent research finds that over half of SMEs believe the IT manager will be dead by 2024.

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New research showing major changes in the market to be presented at the Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2014

New sponsors announced including: Datto, NaviSite, Claranet, Modern Office, QLogic, Virtual...

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IT has growing opportunity to become a strategic provider to the business

IT departments must free themselves from the pressures of tactical necessities before they can be...

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Videos

Nigel Hedges, Application and Technical Specialist at Fluke Networks explains that, as fibre density increases and performance margins tighten; driven by AI, cloud, and next-generation digital infrastructure,...
In this interview, Dr. Brian Luckey, Chief Information Officer, and Kris Laskarzewski, Chief Transformation Officer at Integris, discuss the realities of embedding AI into a services business. From 'fail fast'...
Claire Keelan, UK MD at Onnec, is warning that the UK will fall short of its AI ambitions and data centre expansion targets, unless it tackles the growing workforce shortage by tapping into underused talent...
Christina Mertens, vice president of business development, EMEA, at VIRTUS Data Centres, explains that, for data centre operators, the question is no longer only where capacity can be deployed quickly, but...

Expert Opinions

By Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow.
Paul Swaddle, Product Manager at Serios Group and Lucy Batley, founder of AI consultancy Traction Industries discuss how organisations can combine data and AI to create meaningful business impact.