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Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change

The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems Continue Reading
Log management: Helping IT admins to achieve infrastructure-wide visibility

When properly configured and deployed, log management tools can unearth a veritable treasure trove of data that IT administrators can use to triage and diagnose problems in enterprise IT infrastructures Continue Reading
Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre

The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
Staffordshire University goes all-in on Microsoft Azure for digital transformation

Andrew Proctor, director of digital services at Staffordshire University, describes how ditching its datacentres and moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud has set the organisation on the path to digital transformation Continue Reading
The Sanger Institute on using datacentre upgrades to help decode the human genome

Paul Woobey, IT director at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, tells Computer Weekly why the organisation's HPC workload requirements cannot be fulfilled by a move to the cloud Continue Reading

Datacentre cooling upgrades: Helping operators decide where best to invest

Upgrading a datacentre cooling system is an expensive undertaking, but should operators stick with what they've always done or try something new? Continue Reading
Datacentre heat reuse: Why aren’t more operators doing it?

With the datacentre industry’s sustainability habits coming under increasingly close scrutiny, we find out why operators are not rushing to reuse their waste heat Continue Reading
Microsoft’s underwater datacentre: The pros and cons of running subsea facilities

Underwater datacentres can help providers save on land costs and cooling, but at what cost to the environment? Continue Reading
Modular datacentre helps Belgian IT firm support Dutch and German customers

Cegeka commissioned a new datacentre when its customer base expanded and decided on a modular approach to get it up and running quickly Continue Reading
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2015

Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories and trend pieces of 2015 Continue Reading
How Verne Global tackled the Icelandic datacentre connectivity gap

The wide availability of renewable energy has made Iceland an attractive location for datacentre operators, increasing demand for global network connections to the country Continue Reading

Datacentre PUE: Who's keeping score?

With datacentre operators under increased competitive pressure to cut their PUE scores, are their ratings really all they seem? Continue Reading
Energy-efficient Europe: How the datacentre sector is keeping it clean

With users becoming increasingly savvy about environmental issues, we take a look at how the datacentre sector is responding Continue Reading
Cloud boosts demand for datacentres in Poland and eastern Europe

The datacentre market in both central and eastern Europe and Poland has recorded double–digit growth Continue Reading
Co-location services and datacentres feel the CCA heat

A climate change agreement (CCA) for datacentres has come into force. How will its energy-efficiency rewards shape the industry? Continue Reading