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Data centre
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February 03, 2017
03
Feb'17
CIO interview: Adam Gerrard, Yodel
Parcel delivery firm has seen significant business improvements from a digital transformation programme and replacement of legacy IT systems
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February 01, 2017
01
Feb'17
Executive interview: Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals firm's big cloud bets for 2017
New Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals details of what the future holds for the managed cloud company now it's under new ownership
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January 26, 2017
26
Jan'17
Security spending leaving data vulnerable, study finds
Cyber breaches are increasing despite increased security spending, a study shows, highlighting that security investment decisions are not aligned with actual cyber threats
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January 24, 2017
24
Jan'17
GDS signals intent to move public sector off PSN
Government Digital Service’s Technology Leaders Network determines that the internet is an adequate solution to support the vast majority of public sector work
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January 18, 2017
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Jan'17
GDS declares public cloud secure enough for "vast majority" of public sector
Government Digital Service moves to allay public sector concerns about using off-premise services in a bid to speed up cloud adoption beyond Whitehall
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January 12, 2017
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Jan'17
Flawed GoDaddy security certificates show need for control
Vulnerabilities in digital security certificates highlight the need for organisations to be able to exercise more control over those certificates
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January 09, 2017
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Jan'17
UKCloud cuts cloud storage pricing for public sector customers and sticks boot into US rivals
Public sector-focused cloud provider claims latest round of price cuts means its services are cheaper to use than some of its US counterparts
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January 05, 2017
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Jan'17
HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems
The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations
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December 30, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2016
Flash storage has held onto the headlines in 2016, but hyper-converged infrastructure, containerisation, software-defined storage and VMware’s plans for the hybrid cloud are rising themes
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December 20, 2016
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Dec'16
Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market
Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017
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December 19, 2016
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Dec'16
HMRC slammed over tax probe into Newcastle datacentre campus investors
HM Revenue and Customs said it is committed to clamping down on abuses of the UK tax system, following criticism of its decision to recoup tax relief payments to datacentre investors
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December 13, 2016
13
Dec'16
Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud
Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs
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December 09, 2016
09
Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services
The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017
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December 06, 2016
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Dec'16
UK falls below global cyber security confidence
Global confidence in ability to accurately assess cyber risk has fallen in the past year, but the UK has fallen below the global average
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December 01, 2016
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Dec'16
AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth
AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them
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November 30, 2016
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Nov'16
BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs
Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs
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November 25, 2016
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Nov'16
CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London
CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises
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November 23, 2016
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Nov'16
Case study: How the RAC is digitising roadside assistance
The RAC, an organisation steeped in tradition, is on a modernisation drive. We look at how Microsoft Azure is helping it digitise older cars
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November 23, 2016
23
Nov'16
Budget busters: Three ways for CIOs to fund digital initiatives
The business wants IT to innovate, but CIOs find their budgets are frozen. Who you gonna call?
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November 17, 2016
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Nov'16
Dutch bank ING to spend millions ‘disrupting’ its own business
Dutch bank ING used digital technology to reinvent itself following the financial crash, and is about to reinvent itself again, says its global CTO, Brendan Donovan
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November 09, 2016
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Nov'16
HSBC combines AWS with agile thinking to tap into growing demand for mobile banking
Banking giant opens up about how cloud and DevOps adoption is helping it cope with the growing consumer demand for mobile and online banking services
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November 07, 2016
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Nov'16
Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms
Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges
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November 04, 2016
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Nov'16
CenturyLink sells datacentre portfolio to private equity consortium
Telco brings an end to months of speculation about its datacentre plans by confirming it has reached a deal to offload 57 sites to BC Partners
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October 28, 2016
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Oct'16
SDN trailblazer Big Switch Networks launches in UK
Having established a base of paying customers through a key partnership with Dell, SDN supplier Big Switch Networks is opening its first European offices and gunning for Cisco’s ACI business
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October 25, 2016
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Oct'16
AI set to replace traditional IT administrators
Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms
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October 25, 2016
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Oct'16
Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload
Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams
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October 21, 2016
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Oct'16
Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud
Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm
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October 19, 2016
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Oct'16
Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school
Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
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October 18, 2016
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Oct'16
VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI
VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol
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October 18, 2016
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Oct'16
Traditional datacentre hardware revenues hit by digital transformation efforts
Technology Business Research report sheds light on the impact that cloud, virtualisation and hyper-convergence are having on traditional datacentre hardware revenues
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October 14, 2016
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Oct'16
VMware and AWS joint venture to help enterprises manage multi-cloud environments
Virtualisation giant VMware reinforces its commitment to helping enterprises manage multi-cloud deployments with AWS partnership
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October 11, 2016
11
Oct'16
IR35 dispute prompts mass walkout of IT contractors from MoD agency
Public sector IT contractors leave UK Hydrographic Office en masse over IR35 clampdown, Computer Weekly understands
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October 11, 2016
11
Oct'16
How Linux has influenced modern IT
On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century
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October 10, 2016
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Oct'16
More virtualisation to come in mature Australian market
Australia has been hailed as a rapidly growing market for mobile virtualisation
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October 04, 2016
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Oct'16
Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism
Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety
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October 03, 2016
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Oct'16
Government invests £220m in tech projects to help "future-proof" post-Brexit economy
Chancellor Philip Hammond highlights the role high-tech industries have to play in safe-guarding the post-Brexit economy
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September 30, 2016
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Sep'16
How IoT can revolutionise running railways
Mobile computing, mobile sensor networks and deep learning are behind French rail operator SNCF’s efficiency drive
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September 21, 2016
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Sep'16
Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique
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September 16, 2016
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Sep'16
Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments
OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding
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September 12, 2016
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Sep'16
MaidSafe secure internet concept enters testing phase
Scottish internet startup MaidSafe brings its vision for a more private and secure approach to the web a step closer to reality
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September 09, 2016
09
Sep'16
Dell Technologies to cut up to 3,000 jobs
Creating the world’s largest privately controlled tech company is to come at the price of up to 3,000 jobs following Dell’s acquisition of EMC
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September 08, 2016
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Sep'16
Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week
SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
Combined Dell and EMC company targets intelligent things
The $74bn merger of Dell and EMC has created a technology giant with a remit to expand into the software-defined datacentre space to support IoT
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows
Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre
Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365
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September 02, 2016
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Sep'16
Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities
How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond
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August 30, 2016
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Aug'16
VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments
Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
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August 26, 2016
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Aug'16
Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn
After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer
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August 24, 2016
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Aug'16
London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space
CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter
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August 18, 2016
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Aug'16
Intel Developer Forum: Silicon Photonics boosts datacentre connectivity
Microsoft Azure datacentres increase connectivity to 100Gbps thanks to Silicon Photonics interconnect