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Using DCIM to Consolidate and Drive Down Colo Costs

As colocation demand surges, space is becoming increasingly scarce and costly. According to CBRE, the average asking rate in primary wholesale colocation markets for a 250–500 kW requirement has climbed 12.6% year-over-year to a record $184.06 per kW/month, while vacancy rates have dropped to a record-low 1.9%. With vacancy rates low and power costs rising, doing more with less in your data center is essential.

Unlocking Growth for Northern FinTechs

FinTech is more than just a fast-growing industry; it can drive economic prosperity and improve quality of life, not just in the traditional financial hub of London, but across the whole of the UK. The sector’s success, especially outside the capital, is critical for regional growth and a more balanced national economy.

Securing Your Business's Future with Cloud Services

We're taking a look at how you can secure your business's future with cloud services and how security threats can seriously impact your business. Security concerns for cloud-based services often start small, with a missed update, a misconfigured setting, or an overlooked access point. But in practice, those small gaps can open into much wider vulnerabilities, affecting not just data but the ability to operate.

Compliance Requirements for Financial Services

We're taking a look at how you can secure your business's future with cloud services and how security threats can seriously impact your business. Moving to the cloud has changed the way organisations handle infrastructure, but for highly regulated sectors like finance, it’s never been a straightforward leap. It comes with serious scrutiny, and a long list of requirements to meet before any workloads can safely be moved off-prem.

Automating Network Diagrams for A Complete View of All Active and Passive Components

Accurately tracking how data center devices are connected—across switches, patch panels, structured cabling, and more—is essential for efficient data center operations. But for many teams, documentation still lives in static diagrams or outdated spreadsheets, requiring extensive manual effort. This is time-consuming and leads to inaccuracies that can cause delays in planning or troubleshooting and unnecessary risk. Sunbird DCIM changes that.

Why Cloud-Based DCIM Software Outperforms Legacy Systems

The data center industry’s rapid evolution requires innovative tools to address its ever-changing demands. Cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional on-premise systems, offering unmatched scalability, cost savings, real-time monitoring, and AI-driven insights.

Real-Time Alerting for AI-Optimized Data Centers

Kentik transforms real-time network telemetry into actionable alerts for AI-optimized data centers. By converting database queries into custom alerts, engineers can detect issues like elephant flows, idle links, and packet loss before performance suffers and triggers alerts in systems like ServiceNow or PagerDuty.

Identifying Idle Paths in a Data Center Leaf-Spine Fabric

In a perfect leaf-spine network, traffic evenly spreads across all links. But reality is often different, leaving costly, idle paths hidden in your data center fabric. Kentik's Phil Gervasi demonstrates how Kentik's network intelligence platform helps engineers quickly identify and address these underutilized paths. With powerful visualizations, detailed telemetry analysis, and customizable alerts integrated into your ticketing systems, Kentik makes it easy to spot persistent traffic imbalances, troubleshoot ECMP issues, and optimize your infrastructure.