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Data centre
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November 08, 2021
08
Nov'21
Splunk’s cloud shift is paying off in APAC
Splunk’s Asia-Pacific business is growing faster than the rest of the company, but it’s not resting on its laurels
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November 07, 2021
07
Nov'21
Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031
George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice
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November 07, 2021
07
Nov'21
Businesses failing to cut carbon footprint of ‘power-hungry’ technology
Tackling the power consumption of datacentres features low on the list of tech leaders’ priorities, but pressures to change are growing
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November 05, 2021
05
Nov'21
Inside Krungsri Bank’s open API journey
Thailand’s Krungsri Bank has been harnessing open application programming interfaces to enable its partners to build new services in a strategy that has won over customers from rival banks
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November 02, 2021
02
Nov'21
Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda
Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda
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November 02, 2021
02
Nov'21
iXsystems entry-level NAS goes hyper-converged with TrueNAS Scale
iXsystems TrueNAS can be a fraction of the cost of competitors and with a revamped operating system it can be built into clusters that can run virtual machines and containers
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November 02, 2021
02
Nov'21
Dell rolls out financing arm in Singapore
Dell Financial Services will offer flexible and consumption-based payment options in local and regional markets as more enterprises consume and operate IT infrastructure via an as-a-service model
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November 01, 2021
01
Nov'21
No cloud storage for Belfast City Airport in Nutanix hyper-converged switch
George Best Belfast City Airport ditches ageing Dell iSCSI SAN for Nutanix HCI for half the price of nearest contender, and gets DR site into the bargain. Cloud storage was a no-go for cost reasons
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October 29, 2021
29
Oct'21
Amazon Q3 2021: AWS nears 40% in year-on-year growth
Amazon has reported 39% year-on-year growth for its public cloud division AWS and posted overall third quarter revenue of $110.8bn, up 15% on last year
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October 29, 2021
29
Oct'21
Facebook rebrands to Meta amid continuing controversies
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta to support its work on the next generation of “social technologies”, but concerns around trust and privacy persist
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October 29, 2021
29
Oct'21
How GitHub is driving secure software development
GitHub’s first chief security officer offers a glimpse into the company’s efforts to help developers and organisations embrace secure software development practices
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October 28, 2021
28
Oct'21
Benioffs and Salesforce put $300m into combating climate change on eve of COP26
$200m committed to reforestation and restoration efforts, and $100m for non-profits over the next 10 years
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October 28, 2021
28
Oct'21
Social media conglomerate Facebook on streamlining its hyperscale datacentre buildouts
Facebook offers a look at how its approach to designing and building its datacentres has evolved to keep pace with the growing demands of its growing user base
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October 27, 2021
27
Oct'21
Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months
Although its public cloud market share is way behind AWS and Azure, GCP is forging ahead with its industrial cloud strategy
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October 27, 2021
27
Oct'21
Microsoft: Solving the climate crisis will require moon landing levels of tech innovation
Microsoft’s chief environmental officer says it’s not too late to prevent a climate disaster, but doing so will require a group effort and levels of tech innovation on a par with those needed to put a man on the moon
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October 27, 2021
27
Oct'21
Cohesity beefs up ransomware and disaster recovery offer
Disaster Recovery as-a-service, Data Govern and project Fort Knox available or in development as data protection supplier augments its portfolio with ransomware firmly in mind
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October 27, 2021
27
Oct'21
AWS to open cloud region in New Zealand
Cloud giant will invest NZ$7.5bn in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new Auckland cloud region
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October 25, 2021
25
Oct'21
London calling for infrastructure as business nets expand four times faster than pre-pandemic
As the new way of working in the post-pandemic arena evolves, research finds digitally mature businesses are hitting the accelerator on digital infrastructure
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October 25, 2021
25
Oct'21
The RSPCA on how going cloud-first helped it rescue and rehome animals throughout the pandemic
The RSPCA was one of the earliest adopters of Google’s online business productivity suite of tools nearly a decade ago, and the organisation’s assistant director of IT resources reveals how that decision has benefited the charity throughout the ...
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October 21, 2021
21
Oct'21
NetApp Insight frames moves to public cloud and cloud native
Storage player highlights partnerships with cloud hyperscalers and development of Spot portfolio aimed at cloud-native applications, DevOps, FinOps and SecOps
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October 20, 2021
20
Oct'21
Alibaba Cloud to open datacentres in Thailand and South Korea
Chinese cloud supplier is expanding its regional datacentre footprint to Thailand and South Korea in 2022 alongside technology investments that include a custom Arm-based server chip
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October 19, 2021
19
Oct'21
Government flags opportunity for re-use of waste datacentre heat in net-zero strategy
UK government's long-awaited net-zero strategy document makes the case for the creation of heat networks that could see waste heat from datacentres used to warm homes and businesses
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October 19, 2021
19
Oct'21
VMware refines cross-cloud strategy
VMware’s CTO Kit Colbert talks up the evolution of the company’s cross-cloud strategy and how it stands out from other suppliers eyeing the multicloud pie
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October 18, 2021
18
Oct'21
Singapore pulls ahead with public sector 5G trials
Singapore’s public sector organisations are testing the use of 5G connectivity to remotely operate an autonomous vehicle for road-sweeping, among other use cases
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October 17, 2021
17
Oct'21
Graphcore opens Southeast Asia hub in Singapore
The AI chipmaker is looking to expand its sales teams and hire more engineers to support customer deployments in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia
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October 14, 2021
14
Oct'21
NXP Semiconductors doubles down on datacentre migration plan with AWS
Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer is expanding its use of Amazon Web Services to speed up the time it takes to develop and release new products
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October 14, 2021
14
Oct'21
HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC
HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Microsoft makes carbon emissions-tracking dashboard generally available to cloud users
Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Half-year cloud market tracker data highlights soaring demand for IaaS and PaaS
Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how soaring demand for cloud services is affecting the dominant suppliers
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Google builds out hybrid and multicloud vision for enterprises
The tech giant used the first day of its Google Cloud Next virtual conference to reveal how it is building out its multicloud proposition for enterprises
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Google Cloud renews commitment to helping enterprises decarbonise their IT infrastructure
Public cloud giant is making a series of tools available to users of its off-premise platforms that are designed to help them decarbonise their IT setups
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October 12, 2021
12
Oct'21
Siemens Energy plots multi-petabyte datacentre migration with Google Cloud
Energy technology company Siemens Energy is to downsize its datacentre footprint with an ambitious plan to move 2.6 petabytes of its business data to Google Cloud over 15 months
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October 11, 2021
11
Oct'21
Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities
The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software
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October 11, 2021
11
Oct'21
Oracle commits to growing global datacentre footprint by opening 14 new regions over coming year
Database giant to build out its datacentre presence across the world on the back of growing demand for its cloud infrastructure services
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October 07, 2021
07
Oct'21
How VMware is tackling the Indian market
VMware is eyeing growing opportunities in India around cloud-native application development, remote work as well as 5G and edge computing, says VMware president Sumit Dhawan
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
VMworld 2021: VMware CEO fleshes out and refines company’s enterprise multi-cloud strategy
VMware’s new CEO, Raghu Raghuram, uses the VMworld 2021 keynote to set out the company’s expanded take on the meaning of multi-cloud
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Open Infrastructure Foundation hails surge in OpenStack deployments as Microsoft joins ranks
Open Infrastructure Foundation’s chief operating officer lifts the lid on how the pandemic is shaping and accelerating adoption of its open source cloud platform OpenStack
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Aetos to deploy Singtel MEC for security operations
Security firm Aetos will use Singtel’s multi-access edge computing platform to run applications such as surveillance robots, drones and video analytics at its security command centre
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October 05, 2021
05
Oct'21
Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions
Harlow-based colocation giant has secure further investment as its expansion plans gather pace
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September 29, 2021
29
Sep'21
AWS courts local councils across UK and Ireland with three-month free cloud services trial offer
Amazon Web Services is seeking expressions of interest from local authorities across the UK, Ireland and Spain to take part in a three-month cloud trial programme
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September 29, 2021
29
Sep'21
The Security Interviews: How SolarWinds came through its darkest hour
In his first major UK press interview, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna tells Computer Weekly how a relentless focus on transparency saw the company safely through a nightmare cyber breach scenario
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September 29, 2021
29
Sep'21
AWS launches programme to advance health equity
The $40m global health equity programme will fund projects that improve health outcomes for underserved communities
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September 28, 2021
28
Sep'21
How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack
Palo Alto Networks shares details of how its red teamers found and sealed a customer vulnerability that could have led to another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack
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September 28, 2021
28
Sep'21
Pure launches Fusion cloud control layer for storage
Pure Fusion is a storage control plane across cloud and datacentre. Portworx Data Services also launches to provide database management for container storage platform
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September 27, 2021
27
Sep'21
GCP gets triple-redundant NAS and built-in Kubernetes backup
Google Filestore Enterprise will provide synchronous replication across three zones, while Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine brings built-in container cluster data protection
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September 27, 2021
27
Sep'21
Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth
Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates
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September 27, 2021
27
Sep'21
CIO interview: Jon Braithwaite, CIO, Compass Group UK & Ireland
FTSE 100 catering services company is undergoing a widespread overhaul of its technology and improving the digital offering to customers
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September 24, 2021
24
Sep'21
IT systems failure blights UK Border Force electronic passport gates
The Home Office confirms the UK Border Force electronic passport gates are up and running again after passengers complain of missed flights due to earlier immigration processing delays
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September 23, 2021
23
Sep'21
Regulator concerns about resilience and security could slow cloud adoption in financial services
Report by Association for Financial Markets In Europe highlights the pressure financial services firms face as they seek to balance the need for innovation with regulatory requirements
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September 23, 2021
23
Sep'21
European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows
Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share