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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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 operational disciplines and incident response — the day-to-day of keeping an estate running.
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.