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Datacentre capacity planning
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In The Current Issue:
- Alan Bates: The ‘details man’ the Post Office paid the price for ignoring
- Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion
- From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
Ahead in the Clouds
Going green: Boosting the sustainability of Europe's booming datacentre market
Senior Editor, UK 23 Nov 2018In this guest post, Jens Struckmeier, founder and CTO of cloud service provider Cloud&Heat Technologies, shares his views on the ecological and technological challenges caused by Europe’s ...
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In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director at colocation provider VIRTUS Data Centres, on how to help organisations take back control over their big data. When the story broke in March ...
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Ahead in the Clouds
Cryptocurrency and colocation: Breaking down the Bitcoin mining barriers
Senior Editor, UK 22 Feb 2018In this guest post, Jack Bedell-Pearce, managing director of service provider 4D Data Centres, shares his thoughts on the role colocation can play in helping cryptocurrency miners boost their ...
With 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years, it’s hardly surprising that the datacentre industry is booming, with cities around the world racing to entice the global tech giants and ...
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Given the sensitive nature of the information server farms house, the datacentre community is never all that keen on revealing the precise location of where their facilities are out of fear of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The only certainty of Brexit is uncertainty
Managing Editor 15 Aug 2016The reality of what Brexit means is starting to sink in: no one knows for certain what will happen. Six weeks after the UK voted to leave the EU, the weak pound is already causing IT costs to rise ...