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• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Cloud-first mindset growing in India

  Nearly half of organisations in India are expected to spend more on cloud services, underscoring the growing cloud-first mindset that is taking root in the subcontinent

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Cloud wars: How the US tech giants opening UK datacentres shook up the public sector market

  Five years have passed since Microsoft and Amazon opened their UK datacentre regions, rapidly growing their share of the public sector market to the detriment of several smaller, home-grown cloud providers

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  AIB signs up to z15-powered transformation

  Irish bank has continued its investment in IBM z-series hardware and the Red Hat software portfolio to help it achieve its digital transformation goals

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Multibillion-dollar quantum opportunities if error rate recedes

  Management consultant McKinsey discusses a potential $700bn opportunity in the pharma, finance, automotive and chemicals sectors

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Oxford City Council services back online after weekend outage at SCC datacentre

  Council has confirmed its services are back up and running after its datacentre hosting partner suffered a minor outage over the weekend

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

  How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2022

  Operationalising zero trust, talent retention and containerisation are just some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2022

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  NEXTDC opens edge datacentre on the Sunshine Coast

  NEXTDC’s SC1 facility is the first in a series of edge datacentre sites that will provide low-latency services to regional businesses and global linkages

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS outage: API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub

  One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS re:Invent 2021: Four key takeaways for ASEAN firms

  AWS’s third-generation Graviton processor and other offerings in edge computing, machine learning and digital twin technologies are of relevance to organisations in Southeast Asia

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Government makes £116m pledge to help UK's green-tech firms innovate to fight climate change

  The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has outlined its commitment to helping UK green-tech businesses bring to market innovations that could help fight climate change

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Schneider Electric gifts the datacentre industry a five-part sustainability framework

  Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  APAC banks gear up on cloud, but challenges remain

  Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: UK IT leaders show preference for cloud-first strategies

  Research suggests firms across the UK and Europe that were quick to pivot to the cloud in response to the pandemic are prioritising investments that will help them make more of their off-premise infrastructure

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  NUHS to tap edge supercomputing to crunch AI workloads

  Singapore’s National University Health System will tap edge supercomputing resources to train AI models in a range of healthcare-related AI applications by mid-2022

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  United Airlines draws from AWS and diverse tech team to overcome Covid-19 business challenges

  United Airlines used the AWS Re:Invent keynote to set out how it has overcome the challenges of Covid-19 by drawing on the capabilities of its diverse tech team to oversee its move to the public cloud

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  Facebook parent Meta tightens links with open source community through expanded AWS partnership

  Social media conglomerate Meta confirms AWS’s elevation to strategic cloud partner status as tech giants’ ongoing collaboration enters next phase

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Goldman Sachs debuts AWS-powered cloud for financial services sector

  Goldman Sachs is building on its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services to launch a cloud-based environment that other financial services firms can use for data analytics and processing purposes

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  HPE results boosted by new orders rush

  A rush on new orders to avoid HPE price hike, along with some help from Oracle, has helped to boost revenue

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery

  The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Lithium-ion batteries find their way into datacentres

  Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being deployed in uninterruptible power supply systems to reduce datacentre real estate and energy consumption

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud

  The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  Cabinet Office slammed after advising users to ditch UKCloud as further investment nears

  The Cabinet Office is facing criticism after details emerge that at least one major government department has briefed suppliers to migrate away from UKCloud

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growth companies nimble for post-Covid normality

  Evan Goldberg, executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, reflects on the post-Covid-19 pandemic economy through the prism of the Oracle-owned SaaS company

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Growing pains: Where next for Gaia-X?

  With one of its founding members preparing to exit the project because of concerns over the growing influence of non-European entities on its operations, questions are being asked about Gaia-X’s future

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CDIO, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  Moving to the cloud, developing staff skills and responding quickly to the pandemic – from a public sector IT leader’s perspective

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Gaia-X founding member Scaleway exits project over misgivings about its future direction

  A founding partner of the Gaia-X project, which aims to build an open, federated data infrastructure for European companies to host their cloud workloads, has exited the project over concerns about where the initiative is heading

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Average size of hyperscale datacentres is on the rise

  Latest data from IT market watcher Synergy Research Group highlights how the number and size of hyperscale datacentres around the world is on the up

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change

  Public and private sector organisations need to pool their resources and collaborate to address the climate crisis by using open source technologies, urged Lord Maude during OpenUK’s COP26 event

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Nvidia/Arm: Competitions and Markets Authority to drill down further in Phase 2 investigation

  The merger between Arm and Nvidia is to be investigated further following publication of the CMA’s Phase 1 report into the deal

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  IBM readies System Two modular quantum architecture

  127-qubit Eagle represents IBM’s last System One quantum computer design. Scaling to more qubits requires multiplexing and modularity

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Norwegian telco Telenor partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push

  Telenor has signed a deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on bringing joint services and products to market for their customers

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

  Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Green energy Cray supercomputer to power weather predictions

  HPE is building a supercomputer that will be shared by four European meteorological services

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Gartner: Why CIOs need to replan their roadmap

  IT has always been about gaining more efficiency by automating processes, but greater efficiency doesn’t lead to a step change in business outcomes

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Public cloud use linked to reduced carbon emissions and energy consumption, finds 451 Research

  IT analyst house 451 Research claims European enterprises could dramatically improve their sustainability credentials by shuttering their datacentres and moving their business applications to the public cloud

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region

  Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  CME Group signs 10-year cloud and product innovation deal with Google

  CME Group, one of the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange operators, has signed a multi-year infrastructure migration deal with Google Cloud

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Irish government confirms datacentre strategy review in revised 2021 climate plan

  The Irish government is ramping up its commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but acknowledges hitting its revised up target will be a challenge given the country’s current datacentre growth rate

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Splunk’s cloud shift is paying off in APAC

  Splunk’s Asia-Pacific business is growing faster than the rest of the company, but it’s not resting on its laurels

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031

  George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice