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Data centre

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Google to spend $13bn in 2019 on additional US datacentres and offices

  Search giant Google sets its sights on expanding its presence across the US during 2019 to accommodate the demand for its consumer and enterprise-focused internet and cloud services

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Cisco CEO brushes off Brexit and other crises

  Chuck Robbins has been speaking about the networking business’ resilience in the face of multiple geopolitical trends and crises, and says his customers just can’t stop spending

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Businesses fail to grasp the true cost of public cloud

  Public cloud infrastructure as a service sounds good on paper, but a survey has found that many IT professionals are seriously overspending

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Lenovo offers enterprises access to on-premise datacentre kit on cloud-like pay-as-you-go terms

  Chinese PC maker Lenovo wants to make it easier for enterprises to access on-premise datacentre resources without needing to invest huge sums of money in purchasing it

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Chesterfield NHS trust consolidates 30 data management systems into one with Civica

  Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aims to become a paperless organisation by 2020

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Legal & General Capital ploughs investment into Kao Data’s Essex-based datacentre campus

  Financial services giant’s investment arm embarks on sizeable investment to support the continued expansion of Kao Data's colocation campus in Harlow

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  British Airways settles legal claim with CBRE over May 2017 Bank Holiday datacentre outage

  British Airways confirms its legal proceedings against CBRE have now concluded, on a non-admission of liability basis

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Mumsnet denies 'thousands' affected by software glitch-induced data breach

  Parenting advice site Mumsnet moves to clear up reports that thousands of users have been affected by its recent data breach

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Interview: Moving to DataOps

  During a London data science popup meeting, Computer Weekly caught up with MoneySuperMarket.com’s analytics head, Harvinder Atwal

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh

  The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has culled the number of datacentres it operates from 89 to 13, but claims to have seen its compute capacity increase by 25%

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  US Department of Defense backs multi-cloud model to support $10bn JEDI mega-cloud deployment

  The US Department of Defense has fleshed out its cloud strategy, as the industry awaits news of who has secured the decade-long contract for its $10bn mega-cloud environment

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Synergy Research Group hails 2018 as standout year for cloud infrastructure market growth

  The financial performance of the big cloud giants during the last quarter of 2018 prompts market watcher Synergy Research Group to declare it a "banner year" for the market

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Telegraph Media Group switches out AWS to go all-in on Google Cloud

  Telegraph Media Group CIO Chris Taylor on why the newspaper publisher is switching out AWS to go all-in on the Google Cloud Platform

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

  The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Alphabet 2018 results: 23% growth, profit squeeze from investment

  Alphabet – the conglomerate that includes Google and the search giant’s cloud business – grew revenue 23% in 2018, and stoked up R&D investment