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Data centre

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Panasas’s 10x saving bumps NetApp from HPC storage deployment

  University of Wollongong got 1.2PB for the cost of 100TB for HPC storage in its cryo-imaging institute. Scale-out NAS maker Panasas also brought life sciences expertise to bear

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Huawei courts Asian startups in cloud push

  Huawei will spend $100m over three years to grow the startup ecosystem in key markets as it eyes a bigger slice of Asia’s cloud market

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers

  TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: Lockdown lifting slows Amazon’s sales growth during Q2

  Amazon’s revenue growth rate hits a post-pandemic speed bump, as the lifting of lockdown restrictions in various countries sees fewer people shopping online

• July 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Olympic Broadcasting Services taps cloud for content delivery

  Live footages of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are being supplied to broadcasters through the public cloud for the first time

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Google posts $50bn in ads revenue as it looks to broaden the business

  Google reported second-quarter revenues of $61.9bn driven by spending on ads, but the company’s CEO sees the business moving into new areas

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  APAC organisations can reduce carbon footprint with cloud

  Energy savings of nearly 80% can be achieved by running business applications in the cloud rather than on-premise infrastructure, study finds

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Standard Life Assurance uses IGEL to support home workers

  Insurance company repurposed office-based PCs with IGEL OS to provide 4,500 users with remote desktop access

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Research: Cultural barriers hold enterprises back from building ‘high-performing’ DevOps teams

  The tenth annual State of DevOps report by configuration management software provider Puppet suggests many enterprises are struggling to reap the full benefits of taking an agile-like approach to software development

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Beeinfotech PH opens telco-neutral datacentre in the Philippines

  Datacentre startup is touting carrier neutrality, bespoke services and cyber security capabilities to meet the growing demand for co-location services in the Philippines

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Datacentre capacity demand remains strong, fuelling continued growth of secondary colo hubs in EMEA

  Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker report from DC Byte and Knight Frank shows demand for capacity across EMEA is holding firm and fuelling growth of secondary hubs

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Cloud Foundry Foundation rebalances commercial code contributions

  Most open source contributions in Cloud Foundry come from developers whose companies commercialise the platform

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Thomson Reuters fleshes out multicloud strategy with Oracle application migration deal

  Multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters has added Oracle to its roster of cloud suppliers, as it seeks to make part of its tax application portfolio cloud native

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture

  A new generation of farmers is tapping the internet of things and machine learning to operate self-sustaining urban farms with minimal supervision

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Government shares vision for digitised energy system as it pursues net-zero emissions target

  Strategy is geared towards readying the UK energy system for the transition from fossil fuels to renewable power through digital transformation

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Fujitsu uses quantum-inspired algorithm to tackle space waste

  A UK Space Agency project is being used to showcase how a quantum-inspired algorithm can work out the best way to manage space debris

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  SAP invests €250m in UK economy

  Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  Kao Data claims UK first with push to ditch diesel for biofuel in datacentre backup generators

  Harlow-based colocation player claims its on course to become the first datacentre operator in the UK to ditch diesel in favour of biofuel in its backup power generators

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Macquarie Data Centres to build Sydney North facility

  Macquarie Data Centres’ latest 32MW facility will come with a cyber security centre that monitors and manages cyber security events

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Virgin Media outage: Electrical explosion takes down network in south-east London

  Underground electrical network explosion causes ‘significant collateral damage’ to cabling infrastructure, with users in south-east London told to brace themselves for ‘at least’ 24 hours of disruption

• July 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  Windows 365: Microsoft unveils the era of the cloud PC

  Expanding its cloud offerings, Microsoft has simplified Azure Virtual Desktops with a new way to access Windows on any device

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Financial services sector’s cloud use set for more regulatory scrutiny on resilience grounds

  Financial stability report by Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee raises red flag about banks’ growing reliance on a small number of cloud service providers

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Secureworks sets up in EU datacentre for XDR services

  New datacentre location helps Secureworks’ customers meet EU data residency requirements

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021

  Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  Kaseya apologises for extended downtime after ransom attack

  CEO of Kaseya apologises after pushing back the restoration of the firm’s VSA service following a REvil ransomware attack

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Forrester finds companies confounded by data deluge

  A Dell-commissioned study by analyst firm Forrester finds organisations overwhelmed by mounds of data

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Google Cloud ties up with AI Singapore on skills training

  Google Cloud is working with Singapore’s national AI programme to build up the country’s talent pool in machine learning and AI

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live

  The UK's most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Manutan claws back 25% of storage admin time in switch to Pure

  Industrial and office supply giant needed to replace 3Par arrays then made a rapid switch to Pure Storage FlashArray flash storage when the ageing HPE hardware crashed during POC

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Ascendas India Trust to build datacentre near Mumbai

  New datacentre campus near Mumbai will deliver 90MW of power to host technology and cloud suppliers as well as large Indian companies in a fast-growing market

• July 03, 2021 03 Jul'21

  Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials

  In a major setback for police hacking operations, Berlin’s regional court has decided that intercepted data from the EncroChat phone network should not be used in criminal prosecutions

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC

  A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out

  Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Putting cloud repatriation into perspective

  Moving public cloud workloads back on-premise is among the decisions that organisations have to make as they straddle between public and private cloud environments

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Swisscom embarks on public cloud migration with AWS to power 5G innovation

  Switzerland-based telco Swisscom has named AWS its preferred public cloud partner to power its digital transformation plans

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Gartner: IaaS growth boosted during pandemic

  Many organisations have had to expand their use of public cloud services during the global crisis

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water

  Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation

  Public sector-focused IT supplier UKCloud has had its commitment to ensuring its customers are procuring services from a socially conscious provider verified by the publication of an independent report

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site

  Tech giant Apple has requested a five-year extension to the planning permission deadline for its abandoned datacentre in Ireland, as politicians call for the mothballed site to be put to use

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers

  Amazon Web Services is inviting customers to probe their code for software bugs and vulnerabilities using its CodeGuru console

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud

  France Télévisions Publicité couldn’t always get to critical data, so decided to repatriate backup and archiving from the cloud to on-site locations, with help from a managed service

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Reliance Jio teams up with Google on 5G and retail

  India’s biggest telco will use Google Cloud to manage its 5G network and grow its commerce business

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service

  Extreme Networks will draw on Microsoft Azure's UK datacentre region to provide its customers with locally hosted versions of its flagship cloud management platform

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Gousto uses Sisense Fusion to broaden analytics across business

  AWS-based Sisense platform enables meal-kit company to provide more of its employees with data and create custom dashboards

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans

  Database software giant signs a deal with Deutsche Bank to support the financial services company’s ongoing hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Vodafone confirms European datacentres will be powered by 100% green energy by July 2021

  Telco giant claims it is on course to hit an important milestone in its latest sustainability push, with its entire European operations set to be 100% renewably powered by 1 July

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market

  Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Salomon selects on-demand GreenLake to support flexible business

  Sportswear business Salomon turns to HPE for flexible storage and computer infrastructure to run virtualised and containerised workloads

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  How containerisation helps VW develop car software

  Volkswagen’s R&D centre is working with Red Hat to use containerisation to improve how it develops and tests software for the control systems in cars

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations

  Software giant offers financial incentives to longstanding on-premise software customers that opt to move more of their workloads to its cloud platform