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June 28, 2021
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Jun'21
Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water
Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm
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June 28, 2021
28
Jun'21
UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation
Public sector-focused IT supplier UKCloud has had its commitment to ensuring its customers are procuring services from a socially conscious provider verified by the publication of an independent report
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site
Tech giant Apple has requested a five-year extension to the planning permission deadline for its abandoned datacentre in Ireland, as politicians call for the mothballed site to be put to use
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers
Amazon Web Services is inviting customers to probe their code for software bugs and vulnerabilities using its CodeGuru console
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud
France Télévisions Publicité couldn’t always get to critical data, so decided to repatriate backup and archiving from the cloud to on-site locations, with help from a managed service
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June 25, 2021
25
Jun'21
Reliance Jio teams up with Google on 5G and retail
India’s biggest telco will use Google Cloud to manage its 5G network and grow its commerce business
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service
Extreme Networks will draw on Microsoft Azure's UK datacentre region to provide its customers with locally hosted versions of its flagship cloud management platform
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Gousto uses Sisense Fusion to broaden analytics across business
AWS-based Sisense platform enables meal-kit company to provide more of its employees with data and create custom dashboards
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans
Database software giant signs a deal with Deutsche Bank to support the financial services company’s ongoing hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation plans
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Vodafone confirms European datacentres will be powered by 100% green energy by July 2021
Telco giant claims it is on course to hit an important milestone in its latest sustainability push, with its entire European operations set to be 100% renewably powered by 1 July
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June 24, 2021
24
Jun'21
Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market
Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors
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June 23, 2021
23
Jun'21
Salomon selects on-demand GreenLake to support flexible business
Sportswear business Salomon turns to HPE for flexible storage and computer infrastructure to run virtualised and containerised workloads
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June 23, 2021
23
Jun'21
How containerisation helps VW develop car software
Volkswagen’s R&D centre is working with Red Hat to use containerisation to improve how it develops and tests software for the control systems in cars
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June 22, 2021
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Jun'21
Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations
Software giant offers financial incentives to longstanding on-premise software customers that opt to move more of their workloads to its cloud platform
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June 22, 2021
22
Jun'21
Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm
Norway-based datacentre operator signs a waste heat reuse agreement with the world’s first land-based lobster farm
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June 21, 2021
21
Jun'21
Opera house shuns cloud for Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure
The Royal Opera House considered moving all its infrastructure to the cloud, but a hybrid setup with Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure came in 35% cheaper
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June 21, 2021
21
Jun'21
Philanthropists join forces to create $1bn distributed green energy platform to fight climate change
IKEA Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation to help make renewable energy more accessible as part of a global push to fight climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions
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June 18, 2021
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Jun'21
Vast Data will offer containerised storage software, but not yet
Vast Data sticking to its plan to provide no-tier “universal storage” via QLC flash and a 3D Xpoint read/write buffer that uses a containerised control plane
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June 18, 2021
18
Jun'21
Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks
Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages
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June 18, 2021
18
Jun'21
Druva helps Thirteen Group get round Azure data retention limits
Social housing business has migrated to Microsoft Office 365 on Azure, but needed long-term data retention to comply with General Data Protection Regulation
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June 17, 2021
17
Jun'21
Lenovo and Intel unveil second phase of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC buildout
Currently ranked as the 15th most powerful supercomputer in the world, Lenovo and Intel’s tech will be used to up the performance and compute capabilities of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC environment
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June 17, 2021
17
Jun'21
Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace
The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase
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June 17, 2021
17
Jun'21
Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations
Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners
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June 16, 2021
16
Jun'21
Axiata doubles down on Google Cloud
The regional telecoms group plans to use Google Cloud’s compute, storage and networking services across the six telcos under its fold
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June 16, 2021
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Jun'21
IBM Financial Services for Cloud initiative wins support of more than 100 collaborators
IBM’s bid to build a sector-specific cloud platform to accelerate the adoption of off-premise technologies among financial services companies continues to gather pace
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June 16, 2021
16
Jun'21
Singapore universities to develop cooling solutions for tropical datacentres
The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University will research on cooling technologies that help to lower the power consumption and carbon footprint of topical datacentres
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June 16, 2021
16
Jun'21
Travelport makes AWS preferred cloud supplier to oversee its public cloud migration
Travel retail company Travelport has turned to AWS to help bolster the performance and scalability of its flagship holiday booking platform
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June 16, 2021
16
Jun'21
Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push
International private healthcare provider is on a multi-year, cloud-led digital transformation push with the help of long-time tech collaborator Microsoft
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June 15, 2021
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Jun'21
Oliver Dowden hails Tech Zero Taskforce at CogX
Government backs a group of UK tech companies and associations to combat the climate emergency, drive green investment and help consumers make greener choices
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June 14, 2021
14
Jun'21
Equinix secures additional funding for global hyperscale datacentre builds
Colocation giant Equinix is embarking on a series of limited liability partnerships with long-standing investment partner GIC to ramp up the number of hyperscale datacentres in its global portfolio
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June 11, 2021
11
Jun'21
Australia names ‘strategic’ datacentre operators
Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency certifies Macquarie Telecom, Canberra Data Centres and Australian Data Centres as strategic operators for hosting government data
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June 10, 2021
10
Jun'21
How Ubisoft is embracing the cloud
Game developer Ubisoft has been tapping cloud computing to overcome the constraints of game development and create gaming experiences that live on for years to come
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June 09, 2021
09
Jun'21
Covid-19: AWS research points to pandemic-induced ‘shortcomings’ in enterprise IT strategies
Amazon Web Services research shines a light on the toll that the pandemic has taken on European enterprises and their digital transformation plans
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June 09, 2021
09
Jun'21
Alibaba Cloud sets foot in the Philippines
Alibaba Cloud will open its first datacentre in the Philippines by the end of this year ahead of global rivals, as it expands its footprint in Southeast Asia
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June 09, 2021
09
Jun'21
Cohesity brings DataProtect backup-as-a-service to Europe via AWS
Scale-out backup appliance pioneer adds backup-as-a-service from a virtual machine on customer premises
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June 08, 2021
08
Jun'21
QTS acquired in $10bn datacentre deal
Investment firm, Blackstone, is hedging its bets on the growth in data processing capacity that will be brought about by digitisation
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June 08, 2021
08
Jun'21
Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use
Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service have renewed a memorandum of understanding for the continued use of the supplier’s cloud infrastructure and applications
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June 07, 2021
07
Jun'21
Siloscape malware a risk to Windows containers, Kubernetes
Palo Alto’s Unit 42 reports on what appears to be the first-recorded malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers
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June 07, 2021
07
Jun'21
India’s public cloud spending on a roll
Software as a service made up the lion’s share of overall public cloud spending in India last year, followed by cloud-based infrastructure and platforms as organisations look to build digital agility amid the pandemic
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June 04, 2021
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Jun'21
Whirlpool deepens Google Cloud partnership with SAP off-premise migration plan
Home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool is expanding beyond simply using Google Cloud’s productivity tools as its digital transformation plans continue apace
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June 03, 2021
03
Jun'21
Atos offers enterprises digital route to net-zero emissions
French IT services provider unveils portfolio of digital products, services, platforms and support to assist enterprises with curbing their greenhouse emissions
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June 03, 2021
03
Jun'21
Tencent Cloud grows APAC footprint
Tencent Cloud has launched new tier-three datacentres in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo as it ramps up investments to capitalise on the region’s burgeoning cloud market
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June 02, 2021
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Jun'21
Oracle debuts low-cost Arm compute instances
Oracle is offering Arm instances powered by Ampere’s Altra processors at one cent per core hour as enterprises look to deploy more Arm-based workloads
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June 02, 2021
02
Jun'21
SA-based MSP shuns HCI for Nebulon cloud-defined storage
SYSDBA needed to refresh its HPE 3PAR arrays, and so looked at hyper-converged but decided on cloud-defined storage from Nebulon that marries local storage with a cloud control plane
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June 02, 2021
02
Jun'21
HPE latest quarterly filing hints at ProLiant shift
Installed base of ProLiant server customers on a path to consumption-based, as-a-service subscription for hardware modernisation
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June 02, 2021
02
Jun'21
Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19
Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers
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May 27, 2021
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May'21
Build 2021: Microsoft targets multicloud developers
Company has previewed new capabilities to Azure application services, giving developers greater freedom of where to deploy workloads
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May 27, 2021
27
May'21
Veeam bolsters portfolio to cover emerging workloads
The groundswell in containerisation and open-source hypervisors is behind Veeam’s recent move to enable backup and recovery of emerging workloads
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May 26, 2021
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May'21
How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre
Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology
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May 25, 2021
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May'21
Homeware retailer vidaXL signs three-year Google Cloud deal to enable SAP systems migration
Netherlands-based international homeware retailer vidaXL taps up Google Cloud for SAP systems migration