THE modern data centre has come to represent the unification of a range of cutting-edge technologies coupled into a single complex entity which, although tucked away from all but a select group of IT engineers, facilitates the smooth operation of business as we now know it.

THE pressure on data centre capacity has never been greater. It is now commonplace for 10 or more virtual machines to be running on the same physical server, making a high-speed uplink essential to ensure all these applications can run without excess latency or degradation of service.

THE wire and cable market in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region has weathered the impact of the Arab Spring to steadily recover to reach $15.4 billion in 2012, up by 5.4 per cent from 2011, says a study by Integer Research.