Insights & guides for data centre and IT infrastructure leaders
A growing library covering the full data centre lifecycle — selecting a site, planning AI and GPU halls, fit-out, migration, sustainability, DCIM and day-to-day operations. Written by the people who design, build and run these facilities, with interactive tools and a global data centre map to explore alongside the guides.
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Managed operations: tiers, response times & SLAs
What operations really covers, how to read a response SLA, the five-tier service model, and a weighted self-assessment that shows which of your gaps cost the most.
Designing the data hall: white space
White vs grey space, hot/cold aisles and containment, raised floor vs slab, and designing for density and change — with an interactive white-space planner.
Data centre migration: de-risk the move, keep the downtime window short
The end-to-end process from audit to handover — understanding the environment, mapping dependencies, mitigating risk, and running an efficient physical migration that keeps the downtime window as short as possible. With an interactive process explorer and a rack-relocation animation.
Is your data centre AI-ready?
Can your existing hall take AI workloads? The readiness gaps, what AI-ready requires, the retrofit path — and an interactive AI-readiness checker to size your gap.
The sustainable data centre: cut carbon and cost
The efficiency levers, 100% sustainable energy across EMEA at competitive rates, and reporting — with a calculator to get a better, greener energy offer.
Structured cabling: the layer everything runs on
The cabling hierarchy, copper vs fibre and how far each reaches, topologies, and the Ethernet roadmap from 10G to 1.6T — with interactive speed and reach explorers.
Liquid cooling: when air runs out
Why air runs out, the methods from rear-door to immersion, the facility loop and CDUs, efficiency and heat reuse, and retrofitting an air hall — with an interactive method explorer.
How to choose a data centre
A vendor-neutral guide to evaluating a colocation or data centre provider — tiers, power, cooling, connectivity, compliance and commercials.
Data sovereignty: whose laws reach your data?
Residency vs sovereignty vs localisation, the laws driving it (GDPR, Schrems II, US CLOUD Act), the spectrum from cloud to owned, and why it’s physical — with an interactive control-spectrum explorer.
Planning an AI/GPU-ready data hall
Why rack densities hit 130kW+, the cooling ladder from air to immersion, the 800GbE leaf-spine fabric, and the physical design — with an interactive density & cooling calculator.
DCIM: know every device and connection
Know where every device is, how and where it’s connected, its status and lifecycle; track rack-U, switch-port and patch-panel capacity; and keep a full audit trail of every change — plus our DCIM platforms, site audits and DCOps managed service.
From shell to live: the data centre fit-out
The journey from an empty shell to a running data hall — design, power & cooling, white space, cabling, commissioning (L1–L5) and handover — with an interactive phase explorer.
Secure data destruction & ITAD
Drive-shredding sizes (HDD vs SSD), the methods, and the standards and UK regulations behind compliant, defensible IT disposal.
Running a data centre: operations & uptime
The operational stack, what the “nines” really cost in downtime, the disciplines and incident response — the engineering behind keeping an estate running, whoever runs it.
Why enterprises are migrating from VMware to Nutanix
What changed under Broadcom, the real cost impact, the credible alternatives, and how to plan a move — with an interactive cost calculator.