<p>For the last two months Computing has conducted an in-depth research programme into trends in the world of data centres, covering hardware, virtualisation, software licensing, outsourcing and a host of other topics.</p><p>Unlike other subjects that we have tackled recently mobility and big data among them on the face of it not much has changed in the data centre.</p><p>"If you strip it all down, it's still processors, memory, disc and network. It's just a different shape and used differently," said a CIO at a large services company.</p><p>"It's all commodity stuff these days there is nothing that is shaking up the industry," said another working in e-commerce.</p><p><a href="http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/2298210/research-trends-in-the-data-centre">Keep reading...</a></p>