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• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Alibaba eyes retail sector with new cloud offerings

  Chinese cloud supplier says retailers will be able to use its machine learning platform to understand consumer preferences, among a slew of services it is making available globally for the first time

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan

  The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  UK banks under pressure to improve downtime reporting under new FCA rules

  To make it easier for customers to compare and switch between current account providers, UK banks are under pressure to improve their reporting processes for downtime and security incidents

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  How Unit4 punches above its weight in APAC

  The supplier of enterprise resource planning software is giving users the ability to tweak its software easily without the need for consultants, turning the traditional enterprise software business model on its head

• August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

  Oracle accused of ‘misleading’ investors over source of cloud revenue growth

  Database software giant faces claims in the US that it misled investors and analysts over the source of its cloud revenue growth

• August 09, 2018 09 Aug'18

  Photobox gets snappy with mass-data migration to AWS cloud

  Photobox Group’s CTO, Richard Orme, has revealed details of how a mass-data migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud has set the firm on the path to embrace artificial intelligence

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Financial services firms lack the culture to innovate fast

  Finance firms appear to be struggling to release new software quickly, a study from Contino has found

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Infinity SDC sells Here East Olympic Park datacentre to fund development of Romford facility

  The colocation provider continues to scale-back its datacentre footprint in London, with the news it has exited its much-hyped facility in the former Olympic Park in Stratford

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Liam Maxwell to swap government for AWS

  Government tech adviser Liam Maxwell is understood to be leaving government for a role at Amazon Web Services

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  Frequency and severity of datacentre outages on the rise, Uptime Institute research suggests

  The Uptime Institute’s eighth annual datacentre survey reveals operators across the world are suffering more outages, as the complexity of the environments they manage continues to grow

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  Arista settles patent dispute with Cisco

  Cisco gets $400m from rival, but experts say it still has some way to go to build a cloud networking strategy as complete as Arista’s

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  How Indonesia’s Go-Jek scales the heights with cloud

  The unicorn’s microservices-based application architecture on the cloud has been key in supporting its growth in Indonesia – and now Southeast Asia

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Alibaba Cloud makes deeper inroads into Malaysia

  The Chinese cloud supplier’s second availability zone and upcoming DDoS scrubbing centre in Malaysia comes on the heels of growing investments in the Southeast Asian nation

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme

  Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Google to build third datacentre in Singapore

  The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  AWS revenue growth slows as competition in the global IaaS market heats up

  Gartner's latest look at the global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market shines a light on how the great and good of the public cloud supplier community are fairing

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  How Google is using open source, containers and hybrid cloud to win over the enterprise

  At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the search giant gave an update on how its effort to win over enterprise IT decision-makers is progressing

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Inner-city colocation space in demand as firms want better latency, says Interxion managing director

  Previous predictions that rural datacentres would be more common are being changed as enterprises aim to bring better latency to customers, says Interxion managing director Andrew Fray

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Court RPA or get sidelined

  Robotic process automation (RPA) is helping businesses go through digital transformation. Time for IT to play catch-up

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  AWS’s sales up almost 50% year-on-year in second quarter

  Cloud giant’s quarterly sales hit $6.1bn in third consecutive year-on-year rise as Ryanair, Major League Baseball and 21st Century Fox join its list of customers

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Fix culture to make digital a success

  Businesses with well-honed processes will often find it hard to adapt to new, digital transformation initiatives, according to Gartner report

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Google brings machine learning data processing to IoT edge environments

  Google is expanding its internet of things data processing offering by extending the ability for enterprises to carry out machine learning tasks in edge environments

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud gaining ground in APAC

  The cloud supplier claims substantial growth in Asia-Pacific, and is upping the ante on partnerships and infrastructure investments across the region

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene on how its enterprise-readiness push is paying off

  The Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco has seen the search giant reinforce its commitment to addressing misconceptions about the enterprise-readiness of its cloud infrastructure and software propositions

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Google wants to ease hybrid cloud woes

  Cloud supplier Google claims its Cloud Service Platform will alleviate complexities in managing microservices in a hybrid IT environment

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Organisations are ready to adopt DevOps to power digital transformation

  Companies across Europe are increasingly turning to DevOps to help them adapt their software processes to support new customer-centric business uses

• July 23, 2018 23 Jul'18

  European infrastructure cloud deals grow, as contract sizes shrink

  Emea is taking on infrastructure as a service in a big way, as traditional sourcing is being pinched, according to ISG

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  UKFast creates subsidiary to support AWS and Azure

  Hosting company UKFast offers its own private and public cloud services alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure support

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  ITPS expands datacentre to support Azure Stack and HPC

  Datacentre company ITPS expands its County Durham facility to meet client needs for high performance computing and security

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Virtus Data Centres plots further expansion of Slough colocation site

  Virtus Data Centres is adding three more data halls to its colocation facility in Slough, as well as carrying out a power upgrade at the site

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  How Singapore’s MyRepublic hones its IT chops

  MyRepublic’s CIO shares how the company’s IT strategy has enabled the internet service provider to spread its wings into new markets

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Executive interview: Bill Ruh, CDO of GE

  With a new CEO in the driving seat, we speak to GE’s head of digital, Bill Ruh, about how the company has refined its digital strategy

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Broadcom acquires enterprise business with CA Technologies deal

  Broadcom buys into the enterprise software infrastructure arena, announcing $19bn acquisition of CA Technologies

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

  IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Hedvig teams up with Veeam to support scale-out backup appliances

  Scale-out software-defined storage supplier reaches agreement with Veeam for backup software to build clusters of nodes with flash, cloud and block, file and object storage access

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  DevOps gathers pace in APAC

  Large enterprises such as DBS Bank have been shaking up their software development practices to fend off disruption from more nimble rivals

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Carrenza expands public sector footprint with move into Ark Data Centres

  Carrenza parent Six Degrees hails potential for tighter public sector collaboration with Crown Hosting Services through Ark Data Centres deal

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

  Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Casino group bets on Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure for surveillance

  Caesars’ ageing digital video recording equipment risked running foul of court and police requirements, and cost tens of thousands annually, so it switched to Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

  Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate a growing hyper-converged market

  As hyper-converged system revenues get set to overtake those of converged systems, Dell/VMware and Nutanix are dominating the market for combined server and storage nodes

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Alibaba Cloud looks to drive its technology ecosystem with startup innovation contest

  Alibaba Cloud is hosting its next Create@Alibaba contest as it looks for innovative products from startups

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Southeast Asia playbook

  Alibaba Cloud is working closely with local customers in joint innovation projects, and has started to launch new services for Chinese and international customers simultaneously to narrow the service gap

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  Government launches G-Cloud 10

  The 10th iteration of G-Cloud is now live, with more than 3,500 suppliers awarded a place on the procurement framework

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  New deals bolster IBM’s European cloud business

  IBM has signed up a number of new customers for its European cloud, focusing on the platform and software services in the IBM public cloud

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development

  French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Formula One switches from on-premise to machine learning on AWS

  Formula One plans to use advanced analytics to improve the data it can show to motor racing fans

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Supercomputing Wales partners with Atos and Dell to bring HPC to universities

  Deal will bring high-performance computing to four universities to drive research across various sectors