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December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2018

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2018
December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18
Top 10 network stories of 2018

2018 was the year when software-defined networking, and more specifically software-defined WANs, took centre stage. We look back at a transformative year for the world of the network manager
December 21, 2018 21 Dec'18
Top 10 AI stories of 2018

From smart speakers to deep learning and ethics, 2018 has been the year that AI peaked in terms of hype
December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18
Top 10 cloud stories of 2018

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2018

December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18
Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2018

Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy
December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18
Defra unveils green government tech vision

Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover
December 17, 2018 17 Dec'18
Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2018

Organisations across Southeast Asia have been doubling down on efforts to take the lead in digital transformation initiatives
December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18
UK named sixth-biggest consumer of cloud services in EU

European statistics agency’s survey into the cloud usage habits of EU member states reveals the UK to be among the continent’s biggest consumers of off-premise services
December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18
Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector
December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18
Interview: Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix

It may be known for hyper-converged infrastructure, but Nutanix now has its head in the clouds

December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18
Christmas charity appeal increases donations with cloud-based comms

St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity is using a pop-up cloud contact centre from supplier Sesui to help run its annual Christmas appeal in partnership with the BBC
December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18
High-flying clouds: AWS bucks traditional business growth trends with help from the enterprise

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud juggernaut continues to go from strength to strength from quarter to quarter, but what is fuelling its non-traditional revenue growth trends?
December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18
Hybrid cloud in Australian government removes supplier lock-in

Australian public sector could take the hybrid approach to cloud computing as government’s digital transformation strategy moves ahead
December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18
Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019
December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18
IT monitoring tops uses for machine data analytics

Advanced analytics is being deployed to make sense of the masses of machine data in IT operation, but complex environments is making this harder
December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18
How Docker plans to help businesses get around Windows Server 2008

Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2008 in 2020. Many applications will fail to upgrade to the latest server OS. But Docker has a plan
December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18
OpsRamp skills research highlights cloud hiring challenges of IT managers and CIOs

Research from IT operations platform provider OpsRamp shines a light on the difficulties IT managers face when trying to find staff to help make their digital transformation ambitions a reality
November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declares Oracle data warehouse switch-off as 2018 work highlight

During the closing keynote at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the CTO of the cloud giant's parent company opened up about the career highs and lows of working for Amazon.com
November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18
Amazon brings public cloud services to enterprise datacentres with AWS Outposts

AWS builds out hybrid cloud play by offering enterprises access to its public cloud services in private datacentres, hosted on the same hardware its own facilities use
November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18
Nutanix grows subscription revenue

It made its name in hyper-converged hardware, but Nutanix is now growing its SaaS-based software infrastructure business
November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18
AWS on why it is finally joining the blockchain bandwagon

AWS CEO Andy Jassy opens up about the company’s earlier misgivings about the real user need for blockchain technologies
November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18
CIO interview: Stephen Docherty on NHS data sharing

The Cambridge Analytica scandal raised awareness about privacy. Stephen Docherty, CIO of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, explains why
November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18
Amazon sets about speeding up space data processing in the cloud with AWS Ground Station

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aiming to take the cost and complexity out of processing space data to make it more readily accessible by colocating managed ground station antennas with its cloud datacentres
November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18
It’s still early days for hybrid IT in APAC

The tipping point for hybrid IT adoption will come only when more enterprises start running production workloads on the public cloud, says HPE’s chief technologist for the region
November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18
Why IT infrastructure approach needs modernising

The freedom and flexibility to develop applications rapidly using diverse platforms will put IT infrastructure teams under increasing strain
November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18
Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions

Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Singapore government to boost cloud capabilities of SME tech suppliers

Smaller tech firms in the city state can look forward to a new capability development programme to help them build cloud-native applications
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage

Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Datacentre expansions fuel record rise in capital expenditure of hyperscale cloud giants

Data from Synergy Research Group shows another huge rise in the capital expenditure of the hyperscale cloud giants, as they rush to expand their global datacentre presence
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Lincolnshire Police signs 10-year cloud control room tech refresh deal with Motorola Solutions

Lincolnshire Police is embracing cloud technologies within its control room environment as it strives to improve the efficiency of its operations
November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Unpacking the OpenStack Foundation’s open infrastructure push

OpenStack Foundation’s push to broaden its focus beyond the provision of private and public cloud-supporting open source software is gathering pace, with the emergence of new pilot projects and use cases for its technology
November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18
Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers
November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18
How Singapore Airlines is flying the digital skies

Top Asian carrier Singapore Airlines has been building a digital foundation to fend off potential disruption, but it is not just the IT team that is leading the charge
November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene to be replaced by ex-Oracle president Thomas Kurian in early 2019

Having spent three years overseeing Google Cloud's push to become a credible enterprise cloud provider, Diane Greene is leaving the firm in January 2019 to focus on her philanthropic work
November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations
November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18
UK leads the way in multi-cloud deployments

Public cloud users in the UK are happy with the service they get, but a hybrid approach may offer greater flexibility, according to a Vanson Bourne survey
November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18
Why Kubernetes is driving a groundswell in containerisation

Kubernetes is fast becoming a de facto standard, but CIOs may be unaware of its footprint in their businesses
November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18
OpenStack Foundation hails innovation benefits of open and inclusive software development

OpenStack CIO Mark Collier predicts the next five to 10 years will see more software development conducted in open, transparent and collaborative ways, as enterprises strive to speed up digital transformation efforts
November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18
OpenStack Foundation will tackle infrastructure barriers to enterprise AI adoption

OpenStack supporting community will help enterprises to overcome infrastructure barriers to adopting artificial intelligence technologies in 2019 as demand for GPU and FPGA-based set-ups grows
November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18
How Kubernetes is becoming a platform for AI

Data scientists and artificial intelligence engineers need a host of tools to build AI-powered applications – this requires a complex IT environment
November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18
OpenStack restates commitment to core cloud platform as 'open infrastructure' push gathers pace

OpenStack Foundation executive chairman Jonathan Bryce used the opening keynote of its user summit to flesh out its open infrastructure proposition, while reinforcing its commitment to creating open source clouds
November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18
Singapore’s Redmart finds speed and agility with cloud ERP

Online grocer has slashed the time it takes to close the books from more than a week to just three days with Oracle’s cloud-based financial application
November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18
AWS CEO Andy Jassy confirms Oracle data warehouse switch-off at Amazon

Months after Oracle CTO Larry Ellison cited Amazon's use of its database tech as proof of its superiority, AWS CEO confirms its parent company is now migrating off it
November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18
Why commercial software providers are buying into cloud native

There is a reason why IBM has announced it will be spending $34bn to buy Red Hat, much like VMware’s acquisition of Heptio
November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18
How Hive balances platform stability with innovation

The smart home thermostat division of British Gas has made developers fully responsible for supporting and monitoring the code they deploy
November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18
Nationwide Building Society banks on AWS and DevOps for customer-led digital revamp

Nationwide Building Society is in the throes of a cloud and DevOps-focused effort to re-platform its digital banking and mortgage services, its director of mobile and digital, James Smith, tells Computer Weekly
November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18
Australia needs better cloud and data management capabilities

Use of cloud services is soaring in Australia, but a lack of cloud management skills is holding back enterprises from reaping the full benefits of the technology
November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18
Google AI Hub aims to accelerate artificial intelligence project development in enterprises

Google debuts AI Hub to help enterprises get their artificial intelligence projects off the ground faster, as its bid to make the technology accessible to everyone gathers pace
November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18
AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows