More in this Special Report

• Making your data centre greener

  While IT may not rival jet travel for damage to the environment, there's plenty the industry could be doing to lessen its impact on the planet

• Space: The data-centre frontier?

  The data centre is an inevitable consequence of our use of IT to gain competitive advantage in business

• Dodging data-centre disasters

  What plans should you have in place to make sure your critical systems can cope with the unexpected?