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Clustering for high availability and HPC

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  Verizon and CenturyLink close to colocation datacentre sell-offs, say reports

  Reports suggest both CenturyLink and Verizon could be on the cusp of off-loading their colocation assets, after months of speculation

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  How Linux has influenced modern IT

  On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

  UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Amazon Web Services expands European datacentre footprint with Paris region opening

  Amazon Web Services outlines plans to build Paris datacentre region in 2017, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  IBM opens first Nordic cloud datacentre

  Oslo datacentre is IBM’s 12th in Europe and 48th globally and will target large and small enterprises and startups to offer services

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments

  OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Dubai Culture modernises its datacentre

  Organisation that brings Dubai’s cultural heritage to life has implemented the latest technologies to support its mission

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  UAE infrastructure ministry upgrades IT to support smart government

  The UAE's Ministry of Infrastructure Development has upgraded its datacentre and networking infrastructure to support the government's smart services drive

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Australian 2016 census sabotage puts a question mark on private cloud

  Industry experts question why the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ website for the 2016 census, which recently underwent a DDoS attack, was not run on public cloud

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Intel Developer Forum: Silicon Photonics boosts datacentre connectivity

  Microsoft Azure datacentres increase connectivity to 100Gbps thanks to Silicon Photonics interconnect

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  European scientific community seeks support for €5.3m hybrid cloud build

  Research organisations from across Europe want to build a hybrid cloud platform to support their HPC and big data projects

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Put supercomputing on curriculum, says Earlham Institute’s Tim Stitt

  Tim Stitt, the head of scientific computing at the Earlham Institute, says children should be learning supercomputing and data analysis concepts from a young age

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Amazon cloud crash forced Australian enterprises to take heads out of sand

  Enterprises in Australia need to rethink their cloud backup strategies following the recent AWS outage in Sydney

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Work in progress: How Jisc’s shared datacentre vision is shaking up the education sector

  Computer Weekly gets a progress report from the Jisc shared services datacentre team in Slough about how the education sector is making use of the site