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Converged infrastructure

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

  Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  ‘We must do better’ says Gelsinger on Intel’s latest results

  Chipmaker has reported a massive decline across its major business divisions

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  HPE Discover: GreenLake grows new features and customer base

  Tech giant HPE has used its annual user and partner conference to announce the roll-out of a series of enhancements to its flagship GreenLake as-a-service offering

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Executive interview: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO, Nutanix

  We speak to the CEO of Nutanix about growing up in India, the switch from engineering to business leader, and mentoring

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

  Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  BMW Group adopts HPE GreenLake to improve data management

  HPE GreenLake will enable the vehicle manufacturer to provide a unified cloud for data management

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Siloed data holding back coordinated health responses

  Digital health experts discuss the role of data in coordinating the NHS’s pandemic response and how managing privacy and governance issues are key to further success

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  CIO interview: Brian Roche, director of IT, George Best Belfast City Airport

  Data analytics, the internet of things and open source software are central to the Northern Irish airport’s aim to create a seamless, tech-enabled journey for passengers

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Norwegian telco Telenor partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push

  Telenor has signed a deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on bringing joint services and products to market for their customers

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031

  George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  iXsystems entry-level NAS goes hyper-converged with TrueNAS Scale

  iXsystems TrueNAS can be a fraction of the cost of competitors and with a revamped operating system it can be built into clusters that can run virtual machines and containers

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  No cloud storage for Belfast City Airport in Nutanix hyper-converged switch

  George Best Belfast City Airport ditches ageing Dell iSCSI SAN for Nutanix HCI for half the price of nearest contender, and gets DR site into the bargain. Cloud storage was a no-go for cost reasons

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Cohesity beefs up ransomware and disaster recovery offer

  Disaster Recovery as-a-service, Data Govern and project Fort Knox available or in development as data protection supplier augments its portfolio with ransomware firmly in mind

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC

  HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Microsoft makes carbon emissions-tracking dashboard generally available to cloud users

  Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions

  Harlow-based colocation giant has secure further investment as its expansion plans gather pace

• September 27, 2021 27 Sep'21

  Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth

  Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers

  TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Forrester finds companies confounded by data deluge

  A Dell-commissioned study by analyst firm Forrester finds organisations overwhelmed by mounds of data

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Financial and technical obstacles hit Danish datacentre heat recycling plan

  A datacentre project in Denmark is grappling with the challenges of reusing waste heat in local central heating systems

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Dell Technologies World: Amex CEO on how Covid-19 has accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce

  American Express CEO Stephen Squeri was among the commentators called upon during this year's Dell Technologies World keynote to discuss how the world of work and IT has changed during the pandemic

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

  Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications

• April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

  How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

  Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

  Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

  City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

  Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn

  Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Tata Communications grows IoT footprint

  India’s Tata Communications has been shoring up its IoT capabilities through a handful of acquisitions and partnerships with telcos

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Microsoft and Singtel team up on 5G via Azure Stack

  Microsoft Azure customers in Singapore will soon be able to use Singtel’s 5G infrastructure to power 5G applications through the telco’s edge computing platform

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Kao Data signs AI-focused life sciences startup InstaDeep as a customer

  Harlow-based colocation provider continues to build out its roster of HPC and life sciences customers

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Space DC eyes Indonesia datacentre market

  Space DC opens first of two datacentres with reliability and green features to tap Indonesia’s growing demand for datacentres

• October 19, 2020 19 Oct'20

  BCS swaps out VMware for Nutanix AHV

  Certified training and migration tools simplify IT industry body’s migration to the Nutanix hyper-converged environment

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

  Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS

  The University of Reading had already deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure so it made sense to add Nutanix Files when its ageing NAS boxes bit the dust

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Nutanix claims growth in ASEAN amid growing cloud adoption

  Nutanix’s business in ASEAN grew by over 40% as the region’s enterprises warm to hybrid and multi-cloud services

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief

  Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  How Sega Europe slashed incident response times using cloud SIEM

  Gaming company’s SOC radically improves its operational efficiency with Sumo Logic’s cloud SIEM service

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  TRC Companies pairs cloud-first push with Druva-infused data backup revamp

  US-based engineering consultancy TRC Companies scooped the prize for Best Cloud Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards with its story of how a long-overdue revamp of its data backup systems ties in with its hybrid cloud push

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  IBM results reveal hybrid emphasis and virtual garages

  The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is leading to businesses rethinking their strategy, with IBM leaning on virtual teams to support hybrid computing projects