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• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

  Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Chancellor Sajid Javid set to make £5bn investment commitment to improve UK broadband coverage

  The Chancellor Sajid Javid is expected to take to the stage at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester later today, to set out the group’s “infrastructure revolution” plans, which include ramping up broadband coverage across the UK

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users

  HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  How drones and machine learning can prevent crocodile attacks

  Cloud-powered drones equipped with machine learning algorithms will soon be able to detect crocodiles lurking in the waters of Queensland, Australia

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle tech with cloud MoU

  Government procurement chiefs in the Crown Commercial Service sign new agreement with database giant aimed at making it easier and cheaper for public sector organisations to use its cloud

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Can Oracle substantiate its cloud bluster?

  Larry Ellison talks aggressively about having more datacentres than AWS and how Oracle’s cloud sales are growing – but it may have to provide legal proof

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  European enterprises 'waste' £24,000 a day on unused cloud services, says Insight research

  The latest Insight Intelligent Technology Index report highlights the economic impacts of wasted cloud resources within European enterprises

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Atom Bank CTO on ditching its datacentres and moving to the Google Cloud Platform

  Atom Bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya describes what is behind the mobile-only challenger bank’s large-scale, cloud-focused reboot of its infrastructure setup

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Enterprises exposed to data loss by cloud configuration errors

  Only 1% of misconfigured cloud environments are spotted and attackers are capitalising on this, claims McAfee

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Australia’s RMIT teams up with AWS on cloud skills training

  Two new online courses will equip IT and business professionals with the skills to thrive in a cloud-first world

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

  Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  AWS G4 aims to lower cost of GPU-powered AI inference

  Amazon Web Services seeks to cut the cost of running artificial intelligence inference engines with the introduction of a Nvida V100 GPU-based instance

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Walt Disney Studios signs five-year cloud-focused deal with Microsoft Azure

  Microsoft added to the host of “innovation partners” that Walt Disney Studios relies upon to ensure its creative teams have access to the latest and greatest technologies

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  The perfect storm for silicon photonics

  By packaging optics with silicon chips, silicon photonics will enable datacentres to keep up with the exponential growth in demand for bandwidth

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Public cloud market set to double in four years

  IT departments are accepting that the cloud offers a better way to provision enterprise IT, but CIOs need to beware of lock-ins

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Singapore Airlines extends use of VMware Workspace One

  Singapore’s national carrier is extending the use of Workspace One to more users in a move to enable its workforce to stay productive while on the go

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT

  A study has found that CIOs are concerned that a modern software-driven, hybrid, multi-cloud architecture will be costly and difficult to manage

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Travelex launches fintech platform for B2B customers

  Travelex has launched a digital platform that enables businesses to use its services via application programming interfaces

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Ecuador citizens’ data breach holds lessons for enterprises

  What caused the mass breach of Ecuadorian citizens’ data, and what can businesses learn from it?

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  Gartner Catalyst: Prepare for web giants crushing your industry

  Companies like Amazon and Alibaba are taking a bigger chunk of the customer journey, but they are also spreading across industry sectors

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  How Zendesk plans to crack the enterprise market

  Zendesk has been courting enterprises by billing itself as a customer experience software company and is leaning on its design smarts to stand out among bigger rivals

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

  Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace

  Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Bloomberg will move historic trading data to cloud in support of clients’ machine-learning ambitions

  Bloomberg’s CIO for enterprise, Tony McManus, says its clients’ changing attitude to using cloud is changing the way the firm makes its real-time trading data available to the financial services community

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Fintech Fluidly combines Google’s cloud and AI tech to ease SME cashflow management woes

  London-based fintech Fluidly explains how its recent all-in move to the Google Cloud is supporting its continued growth, and delivers new features to customers faster

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Digital transformation requires a continuous approach to change

  There is no such thing as a one-shot business transformation. It's an on-going approach to deploying new ideas and technologies that grow the business

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Mutlicloud use rife in financial services sector, suggests YellowDog research

  Poll of 200 IT decision makers in the financial services sector highlights how this highly regulated industry continues to warm towards using cloud

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

  Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  National Rail Enquiries hit by rush hour real-time information outage on mobile app and website

  National Rail Enquiries confirms it is waiting on a third-party supplier for an update on when access to real-time train departure and arrival information will be restored on its website and mobile app

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  EasyJet deploys Google’s natural language processing tech to bring voice search to airline app

  Airline claims to be the first in the world to offer customers access to voice search capabilities within its mobile app

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  NHS Shared Business Services sets ‘simplified’ public sector cloud procurement framework live

  Twenty-four suppliers selected to populate cloud procurement framework, which is geared towards simplifying the purchasing of off-premise services for public sector organisations

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  PDG, Equinix tap booming APAC datacentre market

  Major datacentre providers are expanding their footprint in a region that is set to become the biggest datacentre market by 2020

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2

  Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  How the University of Liverpool balances HPC and the cloud

  The University of Liverpool has been running a hybrid HPC environment since 2017, which uses PowerEdge nodes and AWS public cloud services

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Aberdeen Standard Investment deploys Igel for VDI

  The investment management group is rolling out virtual desktop infrastructure globally and will use the secure Linux platform Igel to manage the VDI environment

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Assessing China’s machine learning platforms

  In a new market research report, technology analyst firm IDC offers insights on key suppliers of machine learning platforms in China

• September 02, 2019 02 Sep'19

  Nordic greentech attracts investment

  The Nordic region is seeing digital innovation across a diverse range of sectors and, not surprisingly, a region known for its green credentials also has a burgeoning green technology (greentech) sector

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  European colocation market set for another record-breaking year, but London market growth slows

  CBRE's quarterly colocation tracker shows the Frankfurt market is leading the way in take-up rates, as London’s 2019 growth rates suffer a hangover

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  IBM and Vodafone offer National Express a smooth ride to hybrid cloud

  Coach operator National Express signs eight-year IT modernisation deal with IBM and Vodafone to provide it with a cloud platform to underpin future digital transformation plans

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report

  Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Oracle to launch fresh court appeal against US Department of Defense’s $10bn JEDI cloud contract

  Database giant has confirmed it will appeal the US Federal Court’s dismissal of its previous legal challenge over JEDI cloud contract

• August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19

  VMware’s latest acquisitions point to emerging platform war

  VMware’s buyout of Carbon Black and Pivotal is a sign of an emerging platform war following the IBM-Red Hat deal

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  GoCo Group backs Microsoft Azure to deliver ‘savings-as-a-service’ customer acquisition strategy

  GoCo Group technology director Kieron Nolan explains the firm’s plans to migrate most of its price comparison platforms to the Microsoft Azure cloud in 2020

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Inside Facebook’s engineering culture

  An open and transparent culture that encourages developers to take risks and assume the best intent of co-workers has been the defining character of Facebook’s engineering organisation

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Transport and logistics transformation driven by data

  Growth in data connectivity and the adoption of technologies such as robotic process automation are fuelling a tech revolution in transport and logistics

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  YPO debuts £400m datacentre and cloud framework for local councils and schools

  Procurement management organisation YPO has set live a public sector framework designed to support local authorities and educational institutions embrace hybrid cloud