Datacentre capacity planning

Effective capacity planning evaluates how well the datacentre helps achieve its business objectives in the present and anticipates the organisation's future needs. As a capacity planner, you must examine hardware, infrastructure and personnel, and determine whether these IT components can handle growth and new requirements that may arise. This section covers how to develop an effective datacentre capacity planning strategy to ensure your datacentre is scalable and prepared for the future.

February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22
Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming
February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22
Adoption of smart grid-ready UPS tech by datacentres tipped for take-off in next four years

IT market watcher Omdia claims the next four years could see a sizeable shift in how datacentres interact with the electricity grid as the use of smart grid-enabled UPS tech becomes more widespread
February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22
TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage

Sydney-based TV content provider MediaHub got tired of performance issues and scaling difficulties with SAN and NAS, so powered its as-a-service offer with Scality object storage
February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22
Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire

How to beat the heat: What can datacentre operators do to meet emissions targets?

With new mandates around sustainability proliferating, datacentres must find ways to meet their environmental goals while remaining competitive and meeting customer service-level expectations Continue Reading
Stakes raised for hybrid cloud as complexity challenges continue

Hybrid cloud may be with us for some time, so what does that mean for cloud provision in 2022? Continue Reading
Object storage: How research institute got 850TB for €150,000

French scientific research institute had its budgets cut and to meet the new cost constraints, it settled on Swarm software-defined object storage from DataCore Continue Reading

Has the data centre of the future already arrived?

Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ... Continue Reading
Datacentres in 2030: What the future holds

In this guest post, Tony Jacob, vice president of design and construction for Europe, Middle East and Africa at colocation giant Digital Realty predicts what the next decade holds for the ... Continue Reading
Working through the Covid-19 lockdown: What to look for in a datacentre partner

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. More ... Continue Reading

How serverless computing could help enterprises cut cloud complexity

The reality of cloud is failing to live up to the hype for some enterprises, but serverless computing could help firms attain the operational benefits they're looking for Continue Reading
Infrastructure as code: What does it mean and why does it matter?

The emergence of software-defined hardware has given rise to the phrase “infrastructure as code” to describe the way these environments are managed Continue Reading
Choosing the right colocation provider

Quocirca's Clive Longbottom runs through the list of items enterprise IT managers should look for in prospective colocation providers Continue Reading