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Clustering for high availability and HPC

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  News International to collapse six datacentres as part of its cloud strategy

  News International will close down two datacentres each in the UK, the US and Australia as it looks to use more cloud services

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace

  Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Rackspace creates 300 UK jobs with datacentre expansion

  Rackspace is leasing datacentre space in the UK to serve customers who want to host data in the EU to comply with data sovereignty rules

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Daisy Group takes control of 2e2's datacentre operations

  Daisy Group has entered an agreement to acquire and manage 2e2's datacentre business unit

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  CIF urges users follow procurement best practice after 2e2 closure

  The high-profile closure of 2e2 should serve as a lesson in best practice for businesses contracting cloud or managed service providers, says CIF

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Businesses are more willing to take datacentre risks amid budget cuts

  Datacentre cost, traditionally a secondary consideration to resilience, has moved higher on IT’s agenda, shows DataCentre Dynamics study

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps

  The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  VMware buys Virsto Software to extend software-defined datacentre strategy

  VMware is buying storage virtualisation specialist Virsto Software to deliver on its software-defined datacentre strategy

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom

  Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Cloud implementation costs higher than expected, finds KPMG

  Higher cloud implementation costs and IT integration challenges have come to the fore as use of cloud services rises

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance

  Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Dell could prosper as private firm with Michael at the helm, say analysts

  Becoming a private company under the stewardship of founder Michael Dell could help Dell avoid the position HP is in, say experts

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

  SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Menzies Aviation replaces VMware with Windows Server 2012

  Menzies Aviation has become one of the first UK companies to install and use Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0 in production

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Dell's OpenStack-based public cloud to go live in Q4

  Dell’s Openstack-based public cloud, which is in beta-testing, will be made generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  Nasdaq OMX picks Slough datacentre to host NLX platform

  US stock exchange Nasdaq has picked Equinix’s Slough datacentre campus to host its London-based trading platform NLX

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  UK lags behind US in cloud adoption

  Research from Vanson Bourne highlights the differences in attitude towards cloud computing between enterprises in the UK and the US

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

  National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  EESC puts forward alternative EU cloud strategy

  The European Commission’s cloud strategy falls short, says EU consultative body as it puts forward an alternative

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Brighton hospital bucks trend by moving from shared services to in-house IT

  Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust moves to an in-house, converged infrastructure for agility and cost savings

• January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13

  Global energy management software market to grow in 2013, say analysts

  Businesses are increasing investment in energy management software to improve IT efficiency, says Verdantix

• December 20, 2012 20 Dec'12

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2012

  2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream. Cloud services were widely adopted and suppliers competed with aggressive pricing

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

  Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge uses datacentre tools to improve efficiency

  Microsoft Research Cambridge used datacentre planning and management tools to improve efficiency and support the researchers

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Competing standards could damage cloud industry, warns APM group

  Standards are crucial to maturing cloud services but too many could damage the industry, says certification body the APM Group

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Microsoft undercuts Google, AWS in cloud storage price drop

  Just days after Google and Amazon Web Services dropped their cloud storage prices, Microsoft has announced a steeper cut

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Case study: CERN adopts OpenStack private cloud to solve big data challenges

  CERN is using OpenStack private cloud to overcome IT inefficiency and big data challenges

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

  The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  More security, high-availability and gov-cloud are on AWS users’ wish list

  Better security, ease of use, added availability as well as G-cloud features could make AWS cloud more appealing

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Guardian publisher uses Amazon EC2 to power iPhone app content

  Publisher Guardian News & Media uses AWS for cloud-based infrastructure to scale content provision on smartphones and tablets

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  AWS re:Invent: Amazon launches data warehouse service Redshift and cuts S3 prices

  At its first ever user conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched data warehousing cloud service Redshift and slashed S3 prices

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Private cloud does not bring full benefits of cloud computing, says AWS

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior vice-president Andy Jassy slams private cloud suppliers for failing to deliver the benefits of cloud computing

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Orange Digital and EE adopt cloud to save £2m in hosting costs

  Orange Digital and EE adopted AWS cloud not just for high scalability but also to cut infrastructure hosting costs by £2m in three years

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  £60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham

  A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

  Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  UK rail ticketing services get next-generation facelift with AWS cloud

  Rail Settlement Plan, the supplier for IT and retail services to UK rail operators, is using AWS cloud to build next-generation ticketing systems

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Dublin Airport Authority uses virtualisation to overhaul IT

  Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has launched an IT overhaul project with HP converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Global taskforce for datacentre energy efficiency pick three new metrics

  In addition to PUE, datacentre operators have three new metrics – Green Energy Coefficient (GEC), Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  Icann picks Dundee datacentre to host first Scottish root server

  Icann is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  CIOs distrust public cloud for mission-critical work, says IDC

  IT executives are still not confident about running mission-critical workloads on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  NetApp nips and tucks FAS3200 clustered NAS unified storage range

  NetApp refreshes FAS3200 series unified storage arrays with changed drive capacities, plus clustered NAS and Flash Cache and Flash Pools

• November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12

  Tape is not a dead storage concept, but needs reinventing

  Despite advances in storage technology such as hard disks, data de-duplication and cloud-based storage, tape is not dead, say experts

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  German manufacturer Sigel boosts efficiency with storage hypervisor

  German manufacturer Sigel used storage hypervisor technology to improve the efficiency of its virtual servers and Oracle database systems

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco

  Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, forecasts Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  How Sega used hybrid cloud to beat the Christmas sales spike

  A combination of private and public cloud helped Sega hasten its games-testing process as well as bring agility, security and scalability to its IT

• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe 2012: Key highlights and technology takeaways

  VMworld Europe 2012 focused on software defined datacentres, cloud automation, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and building new IT skills

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Facebook engineer builds heatmap tool for datacentre troubleshooting

  A Facebook engineer has built a server-monitoring tool using heatmaps to assess the status of cache systems and fix datacentre problems

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  Changing virtualisation management strategy yields results for LSE

  LSE had all the principles of a good IT strategy -- data centre consolidation and virtualisation. But without the correct virtualisation management tool, the project was doomed.

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity

  A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency.

• September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10

  HP and Oracle settle legal spat over Hurd hiring

  HP and Oracle have agreed to settle their legal spat over the hiring of Mark Hurd; plus more daily news.

• February 19, 2010 19 Feb'10

  RES Software offers VDI management suite: News Roundup

  RES Software launches suite of management features to aid virtual desktop deployments; Veeam backup and replication increases speed of virtual servers at The Pensions Trust; Overland Storage launches iSCSI SAN with hooks into VMware and Hyper-V; and...

• December 10, 2009 10 Dec'09

  VMware software on smartphones: News roundup

  VMware software on smartphones; new intelligent workload roadmap for Novell; and other news of the week.