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• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  How a female coder rose through the ranks in tech

  Padmaja Kota started her career as a software engineer before picking up product development and rising through the ranks to become an engineering leader at a cloud-based software company

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  OVO Energy-backed Kaluza taps up Google Cloud for carbon-negative push

  SaaS-based energy tech platform provider sets out how it is using Google Cloud to help achieve its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

  New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

• 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 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Inside Bukalapak’s cloud strategy

  Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Specialist providers fill the missing bits in public cloud

  While it may seem logical to deploy workloads in a hyperscaler’s cloud, is it the best option? Gartner looks at alternatives

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  How worsening economic climate impacts IT spending

  As inflation rises, purse strings are tightening at the tech giants, which will have a material impact on chipmakers and providers of IT equipment

• 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

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  Global cloud infrastructure spend hits $62.3bn during Q2 2022

  Latest market data from IT analyst house Canalys reveals no let-up in demand for cloud infrastructure services during the second quarter of 2022

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  Microsoft hails success of hydrogen fuel cell trial at its New York datacentre

  Microsoft has opened up about how its efforts to replace the diesel backup generators in its datacentres is progressing

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

  Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

• 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

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  IPA revises review of HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration

  Infrastructure and Project Authority’s annual report ranks HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration as “unachievable”, but – ahead of publication – it appears the organisation has had a change of heart

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  AWS remains high point in Amazon results as company posts another quarter loss

  Amazon Web Services continues to go from strength to strength while parent company posts second successive loss

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  How TCS is supporting Australia’s electricity market settlement

  Tata Consultancy Services worked with the Australian Energy Market Operator to build a new system that speeds up electricity market settlement

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Virgin Media O2 Business to provide dark fibre for all Proximity edge datacentres

  Fixed wholesale connectivity arm of Virgin Media O2 Business announces initiative with network of regional carrier-neutral edge datacentres to bolster customer choice for low-latency services across UK edge colocation portfolio

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Microsoft anticipates $3.3bn savings by extending server life

  Thanks to new software tools and better hardware, Microsoft plans to upgrade servers and network equipment every six years

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Google results show bigger GCP operating loss

  The company remains committed to the Google Cloud Platform, but continues to assess the value of extra datacentre investment

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Telstra and Microsoft deepen cloud and connectivity ties

  Telstra will use Azure as a preferred cloud while Microsoft will look at boosting its capacity on Telstra’s subsea cable network in a wide-ranging deal

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  UK heatwave linked to ongoing IT systems issues at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  Guy's & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust said it is working ‘around the clock’ to restore the IT systems affected by the extreme temperatures seen in the UK this week

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  Forrester: European cloud adoption accelerates

  The rise in public cloud usage across the UK and EU will speed up new cloud-specific regulations

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Singapore to restart datacentre builds with sustainability focus

  The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Four key need-to-knows about CXL

  Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  UK heatwave sparks cooling system meltdown in Google’s and Oracle’s London datacentre regions

  The extreme heat experienced by the UK this week had a detrimental impact on the cooling systems of two of the cloud world’s biggest players

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  Log4Shell on its way to becoming ‘endemic’

  US government report concludes that, like Covid, Log4Shell will be with us for a long time to come

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  HPE expands private cloud capabilities in GreenLake

  HPE’s GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is a managed service that provides flexibility in deployment models with automation capabilities for a cloud-like experience

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Netflix selects Microsoft as tech partner to build out its ad-supported subscription tier

  After announcing plans back in April to roll out a lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plan to its service, Netflix has confirmed that it will be tapping up Microsoft for support in building its new offering

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Gartner: Software sales defy economic outlook

  With spending on IT going up, there is no better time to be a head of IT as software drives new revenue-making opportunities

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  EC urged to rejig green power strategy to include greater use of energy storage tech

  Ten stakeholders from the world of energy storage systems have penned an open letter to the European Commission’s policymakers, urging them to factor in their technology to the EC’s green transition plans

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

  Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, Capgemini research suggests

  Capgemini Research Institute probe into enterprise attitudes towards use of sovereign cloud services suggests interest is on the up

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Delta Airlines signs multi-year cloud deal with AWS as customer experience revamp gathers pace

  Nearly 18 months on from signing a multi-year deal with IBM, focused on embracing a hybrid cloud setup for its operations, Delta Airlines is adding AWS to its roster of cloud partners

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Ordnance Survey research reveals sustainability projects as hot for software developers

  According to research by Ordnance Survey, sustainability projects are emerging as hot zones for software developers, attracted by the chance to do some good as well as make good money

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Oracle to open first sovereign cloud regions for EU-based users in 2023

  Database software giant Oracle has set out plans to provide private enterprises and public sector organisations with access to sovereign cloud regions, with the first set to open in Spain and Germany next year

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Microsoft VBA macro block will return

  Microsoft provides more details about its sudden decision to rollback a landmark security policy, and reassures users it is a temporary measure

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

  The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Microsoft to roll out grid-interactive UPS tech to its Dublin datacentre

  Software giant plans to support Ireland’s transition to a carbon-free energy society by making its datacentre’s backup power sources available for use to the country’s national grid

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre cooling firm FEL Group ceases trading

  Although its most recent financial report suggested the firm was seeing green shoots of recovery after a business restructure and financing plan, a disagreement on a key contract has resulted in FEL Group going out of business

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre liquid cooling firm Iceotope Technologies secures £30m funding

  Sheffield-based datacentre liquid cooling firm wins funding from environment-focused global investment syndicate

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Vodafone and Google Cloud collaboration gives rise to AI Booster platform

  Vodafone and Google Cloud have gone public with details of a jointly created artificial intelligence platform that is already live in more than 18 countries

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  High Court quashes planning permission extension for Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

  After securing additional planning permission for the site of its now-abandoned datacentre build last year, Apple has seen the offer withdrawn by the High Court – which may complicate how it sells the land on

• July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

  How Lenovo is making the transition into services

  Although Lenovo is late to the as-a-service game, it is making headway through its One Lenovo and services-led transformation strategies, says a top company executive

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  H&M Group tries Google Cloud on for size as omnichannel push gathers pace

  H&M Group has tapped up Google Cloud to add data analytics and machine learning capabilities to its omnichannel strategy