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Data centre

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

  Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

  Research from non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe organisation suggests cost of digital transformation is going up for ‘unfair’ reasons

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

  A decade after it was first introduced, the government has updated its cloud-first guidance by including nine principles to guide public sector IT buyers through their off-premise purchasing decisions

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

  Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

  With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive

  The energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Salvation Army’s trading arm sets sights on helping enterprises reuse their IT devices

  Trading arm of Christian church charity The Salvation Army is expanding beyond textile recycling to help businesses reuse and recycle their e-waste

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options

  Backup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft

  IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

  Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification

  The British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth

  The Climate Tech Supercluster has been launched to aid the growth and development of the green tech startup scene in university towns across the UK and Europe

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times

  Study by Tata Consultancy Services confirms enterprises from across the UK and Ireland are continuing to invest in cloud, and see doing so as the gateway to future innovation

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050

  Australia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

  Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Google Cloud signs MoU to accelerate take-up of AI by UK defence sector

  Google Cloud is continuing to make in-roads into the UK public sector after signing MoU with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development

  Against a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Skills shortages hold back enterprises from reaching multicloud goals

  Research highlights the impact skills shortages are having on the ability of enterprises to hit their multicloud goals

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  How Dell is easing edge deployments

  Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings

  The hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

  Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI

  It took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads

• May 29, 2023 29 May'23

  Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

  Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

  The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

  Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

  In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

  CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

  Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push

  Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation

  DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Budgeting for IT innovation

  In spite of the economic slowdown, IT leaders are driving forward investments in IT

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore

  Azure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google AI targets programmer productivity

  Google is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push

  Long-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

  HPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

  A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks

  Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

  OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite

  Technology decision-makers across the UK and EMEA are increasingly looking to do more with cloud over the coming year, TechTarget/Computer Weekly research shows

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  AWS confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions data will be made freely available to customers in ‘early 2024’

  With regulators increasingly calling on companies to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions data, Amazon Web Services has confirmed users will get access to Scope 3 data from early next year

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Software development

  Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend

  The first quarter results for AWS show the firm is continuing to feel the effects of enterprise customers “optimising” their cloud spend

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings

  The chipmaker has been impacted by poor PC sales, but aims to drive adoption of its AI inferencing technology

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

  The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed