Cloud computing and big data are forcing change in the world of enterprise IT. This is no more obvious than when it comes to data centres which are currently receiving a rather attractive face lift. The result is next generation data centres. Dominic Pollard offers an insight into what’s new.

With demands on corporate data and IT budgets escalating daily, and alongside claims that cloud computing could amount to a ‘five-fold saving in costs’ on deployments, it is no surprise that thousands of organisations across the UK have already jumped on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon.