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Monday 11 March 2013 | Tags: guest blog

Redstone partner RF Code works with organisations to monitor and measure power usage in the data centre. Here, Adrian Barker from RF Code explains how wireless monitoring systems can help data centre operators gather data on energy usage to help manage consumption more effectively.

Energy efficiency has never been so important to data centre operators…

Monday 18 February 2013 | Tags: Project management

Let’s face it, project failure is non-discriminatory. It pretty much affects all sectors in equal measure, but in the IT and telecoms industry the statistics are particularly grim. The Chaos Report by the Standish Group reported a 70 per cent failure rate for IT projects, which is even more alarming when you consider that its definition of failure is 100 per cent overrun on time or budget.
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Friday 07 December 2012

Finding the right structured cabling system for your organisation can be a difficult choice due to the vast number of manufacturers in the market place making that all important claim that they are the best in the business. Our Design Manager Paul Biggerstaff is on hand to answer the key cabling questions that can help you choose the right vendor for this business critical IT infrastructure.

What…

Friday 23 November 2012

Matt Salter, Delivery Director, has answered a few quick questions about how technology is developing to solve two of the most fundamental challenges in maximising computing density: power and cooling.

Why is cooling technology important for a high density data centre?

At the end of the day a focus on high-density hardware means a lot more heat is generated…

Thursday 25 October 2012 | Tags: redstone, symposium

A wide range of CIOs and IT heads joined us at our Redstone Symposium yesterday to hear presentations from some of partners including Aruba Networks, Brocade, EMC, CommScope, Exinda, Huawei, Lancope and VMware, as well as our very own Larry Dutton, Simon Gay, Andy Leahy, Felix Moleele, Mark Stephenson and John Roberts. In the exhibition room, partners were also on hand to talk one-to-one on topics…

Thursday 27 September 2012 | Tags: redstone, intelligent lighting, smart buildings, cost cutting

At Redstone we make a point of using the products that we recommend to our clients. Intelligent lighting is going to play a key part in our smart buildings portfolio, and I wanted to get my hands on it to give it a go.

We recently partnered with Redwood Systems to install intelligent…