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9 February 2012

The future of the data centre

20 July 2005

Once, it looked as if corporate data centres were destined to become mausoleums for the legacy systems of an earlier era. Today, the data centre is once again a centre for innovation. But that innovation has a price. Once the burgeoning mass of servers in the data centre meant that estate costs were a significant factor. Today's data centres are more compact, but that has introduced its own challenges, as this Infoconomy management report highlights.

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