WILL CURTIS
DATA CENTRE STRATEGY
Today’ s data centres generate thousands of data points across power management, cooling, environmental monitoring, network tools, security platforms and much more besides. When those systems operate in isolation, teams can spend the opening stages of an incident establishing what has happened rather than resolving it. But what if those complex systems operated cohesively, rather than separately?
Will Curtis, Technical Director at Trust, leads the design and delivery of technology within mission-critical environments for the company, and he has spent almost two decades building systems that answer this question with resilience and security.
Trust is a UK-based managed service provider that consults, designs, deploys and manages enterprise networking, security and managed service solutions for data centre operators.
WILL CURTIS
TITLE: TECHNICAL DIRECTOR COMPANY: TRUST
INDUSTRY: MANAGED SERVICES PROVISION
Will leads the design and delivery of innovative technology solutions that enhance operational resilience, infrastructure visibility and performance within mission-critical and data centre environments.
In this exclusive Q & A with Data Centre Magazine, Will sets out how next-generation data centres will operate, covering the shift from reactive operations towards proactive resilience, the role of control room visualisation in turning technical data into decisions and the convergence of operational technology with IT. He also explains what rising AI workloads mean for power density, cooling and facility design.
Q. AS DATA CENTRES CONTINUE TO EVOLVE, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES OPERATORS FACE IN MAINTAINING RESILIENCE AND UPTIME?
» The biggest challenge isn’ t necessarily infrastructure failure. It’ s complexity.
Modern data centres are supporting more services, more users, more applications and significantly higher volumes of data than ever before. At the same time, operators are managing power systems, cooling infrastructure, networks, security platforms, cloud environments and operational technology, all of which have become increasingly interconnected.
What we’ re seeing is that organisations often have plenty of data but lack the operational visibility needed to turn that information into meaningful action. When an issue occurs, teams can spend valuable time working out what is happening rather than responding to it.
Resilience today is about much more than redundancy. Most operators already have resilient infrastructure designs, backup power and failover capabilities.
102 October 2026