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Data centre

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Google researchers identify hole in Intel TDX

  Intel has worked with Google to figure out how to harden the TDX module in Xeon chips to boost the security of virtual machines

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

  Veritas InfoScale aims to provide high-performance block access storage despite limitations such as a maximum node count of 16 per cluster

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  AWS under fire for delays in delivering Scope 3 GHG emissions data to enterprises and governments

  With regulator scrutiny of their environmental footprint on the rise, AWS customers are growing increasingly concerned about the public cloud giant’s slow progress in making its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions data freely available to users

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  Prepare for hybrid cloud headaches

  IT will often need to run different workloads on-premise or in multiple cloud environments

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  SDIA applauds EU-led push to make datacentres reuse waste heat and report environmental data

  The European Parliament and European Council have finalised the text of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will see datacentre operators in member states forced to publicly disclose more environmental data and pressured to reuse their ...

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  ‘Inadequate data’ holding enterprises back from making progress on ESG goals, IBM study finds

  IBM survey shines light on barriers stopping enterprises from realising their ESG goals, as well as how consumer attitudes are affected

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security

  Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

  Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  BAE Systems partners with Microsoft Azure to revamp data use across defence sector

  Defence contractor BAE Systems and Microsoft are taking a cloud-centric approach to changing how data is used in various parts of the defence sector

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds

  The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project

  Credit reporting agency Experian is embarking on a multi-year cloud migration project with AWS

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Gartner forecasts massive growth in software and IT services

  IT leaders are set to deploy more workloads on infrastructure-as-a-service public clouds as they attempt to keep costs under control

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Ofcom's interim UK cloud market report flags competition concerns about AWS and Microsoft

  Ofcom has flagged concerns about anti-competitive behaviour from AWS and Microsoft in its interim report into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

  The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

  HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Accenture and Microsoft take Unilever on 18-month 'cloud-only' enterprise journey

  Consumer goods giant Unilever has turned to Accenture and Microsoft to support its push to shutter its datacentres and become a ‘cloud-only’ enterprise

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Climate change vs technology: Study suggests tech investments could mitigate environmental risks

  Bloomberg Media report, sponsored by investment firm Mubadala, highlights human impacts of various industry megatrends, including climate change and technology adoption

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

  The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  IBM Storage launched with backup appliance plan

  Prosaically named brand will replace Spectrum products, while IBM rationalises offer for AI/ML, hybrid cloud and malware, which it sees as the backdrop to contemporary IT

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  AWS confirms healthcare accelerator startup programme participants

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services confirms 23 startups have been added to its healthcare accelerator programme, which is centred on helping the sector tackle its staffing issues

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Oxbotica teams up with Google Cloud to add scale to autonomous vehicle platform

  Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has turned to Google Cloud to help expand the reach of its technology platform

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  AWS takes defence-focused startup accelerator Europe-wide after UK programme success

  Nearly 12 months after the launch of the UK version of the AWS defence-focused accelerator programme, the cloud giant is expanding it

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

  More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  GDS goes serverless to bring personalisation to online government services with One Login

  GDS has opened up about the reasons why it’s opted for a serverless infrastructure to underpin One Login, and how it hopes the system will provide UK citizens with a more personalised experience

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  AWS Imagine Grant launches in UK to fund charity cloud-based tech projects

  The AWS Imagine Grant initiative has been running in the US for several years, with 66 charitable organisations receiving more than $6m in funding so far

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  OVHcloud opens India datacentre

  The French cloud service provider has opened its first datacentre in India that will provide Indian businesses with access to local compute and storage capabilities

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms 9,000 further job cuts across AWS, Twitch and its advertising arm

  Amazon's cloud arm is set to be one of several business units that will lose employees over the coming months, a staff email has confirmed

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Inside AIA’s cloud adoption journey

  The Hong Kong-based multinational insurance firm has moved 86% of its IT infrastructure to public cloud to drive growth, productivity and efficiency

• March 16, 2023 16 Mar'23

  Developing countries risk being left behind by green tech revolution, warns UN development body

  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development urges action from governments and developed countries to ensure the developing world does not miss out on the opportunity to benefit economically from the green tech revolution

• March 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

  UK government commits £2.5bn to boost quantum

  Decade of funding aims to fast-track quantum computing engineers to the UK and drive business adoption of this emerging technology

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  UK mini-datacentre startup hails energy savings of heat reuse deployment at leisure centre

  UK startup Deep Green has saved Exmouth Leisure Centre thousands in energy costs through deployment of mini-datacentres

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  How William Hill’s IT copes with big sporting events

  The Grand National is one of those events that pushes online betting sites beyond their limits. Understanding where there are bottlenecks is key

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  BT helps Channel 4 and ITV take Freeview content to the cloud

  Multiplex broadcast consortium Digital 3&4 has ditched its legacy hardware for a software-defined networking setup that will revamp how it delivers Freeview content to viewers

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  Liverpool Football Club signs Wasabi in on-premise-to-cloud storage transition

  Liverpool Football Club has transitioned from lead-footed on-premise infrastructure to Wasabi cloud storage that’s well-suited to its video production and distribution requirements

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

  SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Government Future of Compute Review calls for nationally coordinated IT infrastructure strategy

  The government’s Future of Compute Review makes 10 recommendations geared towards helping the UK become a technology superpower

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Emerging markets lead growth in cloud spend in Asia

  Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are expected to lead the rest of Asia in growing their cloud spending in 2023, study finds

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard

  Open source Velero offers modular data protection and disaster recovery functionality via API for Kubernetes container clusters in an effort to become the standard in the field

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  How ForgeRock is tackling identity management

  ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch has set the identity and access management software supplier on a path to deliver a frictionless identity experience without compromising security or privacy

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  Mobile operator Three cuts datacentre cooling energy usage through EkkoSense deployment

  Mobile operator Three enlisted the help of EkkoSense to reduce the amount of energy used to cool four of its legacy datacentres as part of a cost- and carbon-cutting initiative

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• March 02, 2023 02 Mar'23

  AWS to open cloud region in Malaysia

  Along with a new infrastructure region, AWS plans to invest $6bn in Malaysia by 2037 as it continues to expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  LastPass attack saw employee’s home computer hacked

  The ongoing investigation into a series of linked security incidents at LastPass has found that the attacker was successfully able to compromise a developer’s home PC using a vulnerability in a media software package

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Colt DCS starts build-out of renewably powered West London datacentre campus

  Hyperscale-focused colocation firm Colt DCS claims project will bring hundreds of jobs to West London