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Data centre
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June 22, 2022
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Jun'22
Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1
Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players
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June 22, 2022
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Jun'22
Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network configuration update error
Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites inaccessible
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June 21, 2022
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Jun'22
Vodafone and Oracle Cloud strike multi-year deal to modernise telco’s European infrastructure
Vodafone is expanding the range of cloud providers it works with, as it embarks on a multi-year revamp of the infrastructure underpinning its European operations
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June 21, 2022
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Jun'22
Cloudflare outage temporarily takes down hundreds of websites
Downtime incident at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare has wide-reaching consequences for internet service providers
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June 16, 2022
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Jun'22
Office 365 loophole may give ransomware an easy shot at your files
Researchers at Proofpoint have discovered potentially dangerous Microsoft Office 365 functionality that they believe may give ransomware a clear shot at files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive
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June 14, 2022
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Jun'22
MS Azure Synapse vulnerability fixed after six-month slog
Microsoft patched a critical Azure Synapse vulnerability twice, but each time the researcher who discovered it was able to bypass it with ease, leading to a lengthy saga
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June 13, 2022
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Jun'22
Dell server, storage, PC sales grow despite component supply chain woes
Dell executives cite the company’s use of “alternative” component supply chains as server, storage and PC sales grow despite difficulties for most of the market sourcing parts
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June 13, 2022
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Jun'22
The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches
A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine
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June 13, 2022
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Jun'22
New UK digital strategy aims to secure future growth for £150bn digital economy
Government publishes plan that brings together existing and new initiatives intended to expand the digital sector and help to establish the UK as a ‘superpower’ in science and tech
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June 10, 2022
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Jun'22
Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022
Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district
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June 09, 2022
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Jun'22
CIO interview: Yiannis Levantis aims at total quality for Unipart IT
Unipart has a heritage in quality manufacturing and services that CIO Yiannis Levantis is building on, in part by harnessing SAP’s cloud-based business transformation service Rise
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June 09, 2022
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Jun'22
Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming
Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability
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June 08, 2022
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Jun'22
Pure FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex boost as-a-service push
FlashBlade//S brings two new arrays in which customers can upgrade controllers and capacity, while //Flex allows capacity to be bought and moved across any QLC or TLC Pure array
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June 08, 2022
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Jun'22
Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms
Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity
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June 08, 2022
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Jun'22
APAC life sciences firms face HPC challenges
More than half of pharmaceutical and biotech companies expect over 10% growth in genomic workloads but are facing scalability and other challenges with their HPC infrastructure
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June 07, 2022
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Jun'22
Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys
Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards
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June 06, 2022
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Jun'22
Micron to deploy mmWave in Singapore fab
The US chipmaker is leveraging Singtel’s 5G mmWave connectivity to roll out a range of Industry 4.0 applications at its cleanroom in Singapore
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June 03, 2022
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Jun'22
How digital twins can improve datacentre operations
Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses
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June 01, 2022
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Jun'22
Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps
New research highlights the challenges CISOs face securing modern, cloud native applications
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June 01, 2022
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Jun'22
How Pfizer is leveraging technology in healthcare
Pfizer uses predictive modelling to recruit patients for clinical trials and supercomputers to identity candidate molecules that go into antiviral drugs, among other technology use cases
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May 31, 2022
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May'22
OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire
The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire
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May 30, 2022
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May'22
Google Cloud secures contract to supply online productivity tools to Central Dutch Government
Search giant's cloud arm has secured a deal to supply its suite of online productivity tools to the Central Dutch Government
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May 30, 2022
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May'22
Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal
VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market
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May 26, 2022
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Consultation launched on datacentre, cloud security
The government is seeking views on how to boost the security and resilience of the UK’s datacentres and online cloud platforms
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May 26, 2022
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May'22
Broadcom confirms $61bn deal to acquire VMware is going ahead
Chipmaker Broadcom is continuing its buy-and-build strategy to expand into the software market by agreeing to acquire virtualisation giant VMware
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May 26, 2022
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May'22
SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility
Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers
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May 25, 2022
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Google Cloud expands European presence with opening of Madrid region
Public cloud giant Google is continuing to build out its datacentre footprint across Europe with the opening of its latest region in Madrid, Spain
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May 24, 2022
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May'22
Durham University upgrades cosmology supercomputer to switchless architecture with Rockport Networks
Researchers working within the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University are set to reap the benefits of a network upgrade in one of its core supercomputers
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May 23, 2022
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May'22
How Ivanti views patch management with a security lens
Bringing development, operations and security teams together will help organisations to improve their visibility of IT assets and vulnerabilities while keeping threat actors at bay
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May 20, 2022
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May'22
Microsoft urged to do more to address European cloud antitrust complaints
In the wake of Microsoft setting out its first steps towards addressing the antitrust complaints directed at it by some European cloud providers, one complainant said the firm needs to go further by making more of its off-premise portfolio open ...
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Veeam to continue growth momentum in APAC
Veeam expects its backup offerings that protect ‘strategic workloads’ such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce to continue driving its growth momentum in the region
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Adoption of cloud-native architectures on the rise
An increasing number of organisations are deploying Kubernetes to support digitisation initiatives, with service mesh also gaining in popularity
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Portworx adds anti-ransomware to PX-Backup for Kubernetes
Pure’s Kubernetes storage and data protection platform adds object locking to combat ransomware
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to enter general availability in June 2022
Microsoft has confirmed its sustainability-focused suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools is set to enter general availability from June 2022
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Google embarks on UK-focused cloud skills programme pilot with non-profit Generation UK
The Google Cloud team is enlisting the help of non-profit training and education provider Generation UK to help more people from under-represented groups start out on a career in cloud
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May 17, 2022
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May'22
Veeam outlines data protection vision
Veeam is looking to achieve an “outsized market leading position” by tapping its strengths in data protection and doubling down on innovation to help enterprises secure emerging workloads
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May 17, 2022
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May'22
Investment in UK ‘cleantech’ sector hit new high in 2021 as climate change concerns rise
Investment in companies that make technologies designed to help society more sustainable is on the rise across Europe, and in the UK, too
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May 17, 2022
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May'22
Hammerspace the ‘missing link’ for a cloud still lacking
The cloud can’t enable true multi-region working so Hammerspace helps make data visible globally and aggregate it as needed between locations with workflows set via customer policy
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May 13, 2022
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May'22
Dublin datacentre operators warned of climate change-related coastal flooding risks
A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres
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May 12, 2022
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May'22
Rackspace mulls over business unit sell-off following strategic review of company
A statement by the CEO of Rackspace suggests the company could be heading for another period of change, following a strategic review of its business
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May 12, 2022
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May'22
Ryanair taps up AWS machine learning tech to manage in-flight refreshment stocks
Low-cost airline Ryanair opens up about how its long-standing tech partnership with Amazon Web Services is helping it cut food waste and improve its in-flight customer service
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May 11, 2022
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May'22
Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source
Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data
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May 11, 2022
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May'22
Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds
Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’
NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
What will a quantum datacentre look like?
IBM has set out plans for hybrid supercomputing, with quantum and classical computing. This impacts both hardware installation and software
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance
The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
DWP Digital sets out three-year plan to improve data sharing and cut legacy
In response to the pandemic, the government department aims to improve collaboration and develop a reference architecture
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May 09, 2022
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May'22
Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud
The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract
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May 09, 2022
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May'22
AWS embarks on green power-focused deals with AES and Fluence Energy
Amazon Web Services is beginning two green energy-focused collaborations that will see it ramp up the amount of renewable power it uses while helping other enterprises to do the same
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May 06, 2022
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May'22
Uptime Institute debuts sustainability-focused accreditation for datacentre professionals
Uptime Institute continues to build out its education resources and support offerings for datacentre operators that want to get to grips with the changing regulatory landscape around sustainability