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Data centre

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud

  Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  DVLA aims to slash IT costs by moving to public cloud and open standards

  Agency’s IT strategy for 2019/20 will see a concerted move to deprecate legacy systems, deploy applications in the cloud and develop in-house IT

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

  The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

  News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  Court ruling on Apple’s Irish datacentre planning dispute delayed by ‘shortage of judges’

  The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  British Army draws on infrastructure refresh and automation to power DevOps drive

  Army opens up about how a move to adopt a software-defined datacentre setup has helped DevOps to take hold in the organisation

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure

  Infrastructure bundles OS, hypervisor and storage software components from the open source distributor and is aimed at SMEs and remote office use cases

• June 12, 2017 12 Jun'17

  Wickes customers hit by ‘system-wide’ online ordering problems

  Computer Weekly understands a “system-wide” issue is affecting the home improvement firm's online delivery bookings, as well as its click-and-collect services

• June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17

  British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?

  BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal

  About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Insurance giant Allianz opens up about how DevOps success is fueling its move to cloud

  The German financial services giant reveals details of how a year-long push to embrace DevOps has set the scene for a move to cloud

• June 05, 2017 05 Jun'17

  NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances

  NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017

• June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17

  Telefónica increases use of renewable energy to fight climate change

  Telecoms operator behind UK’s O2 mobile network doubles down on existing commitments to renewable energy sources in the fight against climate change

• May 30, 2017 30 May'17

  British Airways counts cost of major bank holiday IT system outage

  Share price of British Airways' parent company plummets after power supply issue at "local" datacentre grounds flights at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  CBRE: Demand for colocation space in London holds firm in face of Brexit

  The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50

• May 19, 2017 19 May'17

  Manx Telecom streamlines its business with VMware NFV

  After deploying an NFV platform to replace its IMS service, Isle of Man-based telco has seen substantial improvements to its business agility and processes

• May 19, 2017 19 May'17

  Microsoft to open African cloud datacentre region in 2018

  Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  SAP wants to be cloud leader in APAC by 2020

  The business software supplier expects its cloud portfolio to contribute at least a third of its revenues in a region that includes key markets such as Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Bombardier signs $700m IBM cloud deal to support business turnaround efforts

  Canadian vehicle manufacturer inks IBM cloud deal to support five-year push to cut costs and improve efficiency

• May 15, 2017 15 May'17

  Why IT needs effective monitoring for cloud applications

  IaaS and PaaS free up IT from running day-to-day administration tasks, but the cloud can become a black box, limiting visibility

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Tech packages to help Singapore SMEs go digital

  Small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore can now take advantage of a slew of pre-approved IT products to stay competitive

• May 10, 2017 10 May'17

  Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance

  The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  OpenStack Foundation slams claims open source cloud platform's days are numbered

  OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce dismisses predictions around the impending demise of OpenStack

• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  HPE ramps up investments in Singapore

  Enterprise tech giant HPE will invest $140m over five years in its new regional headquarters and a startup incubator programme

• May 05, 2017 05 May'17

  HSBC adopts cloud-first strategy to solving big data business problems

  David Knott, chief architect at banking giant HSBC, tells Computer Weekly about how machine learning, big data analytics and cloud are changing the way it does business

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Google hails end of multi-year enterprise cloud migrations

  Google cloud chief, Diane Greene, claims multi-year datacentre migrations are no longer the norm, as some firms are making the move off-premise in weeks or months

• May 02, 2017 02 May'17

  Red Hat deepens partnership with AWS

  Enterprises will be able to take advantage of public cloud services in OpenShift through an expanded partnership between Red Hat and Amazon

• May 02, 2017 02 May'17

  Cisco buys SDN business Viptela

  Cisco says its acquisition of supplier Viptela will enhance its own SDN functionality

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure

  Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  Microsoft chief reveals Azure upsell strategy

  Azure competes with AWS on price as an IaaS, but Satya Nadella sees this as a way to get CIOs to buy higher-level services

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators

  Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS

  Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Huddle needs $5m equity injection or to find a buyer, as investment declaration deadline looms

  Companies House documents reveal Huddle needs to raise $5m or more by the end of April or find a buyer to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Research highlights cloud security complacency in organisations that ditch on-premise tech

  Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premise

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  StorageOS goes to market with persistent Docker container storage

  StorageOS is now available on the Docker marketplace with software product that manages stateful storage for containers, with advanced storage features such as data protection and encryption

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Equinix tops global colocation leader boards on coverage and connectivity grounds

  Colocation giant Equinix emerges as the one to beat in Cloudscene’s inaugural rankings of globe’s biggest datacentre service providers

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  Virtus Data Centres plots to expand Slough colocation footprint

  Colocation provider sets out plans to expand its datacentre footprint in Slough, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows

• April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17

  ‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

  The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role

• April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17

  Spending forecast shows early signs of on-premise server demise

  The datacentre equipment market appears to be indicating the long-term impact of cloud computing on server sales

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  How to apply DevOps practices to legacy IT

  The one constant in legacy systems is that they can’t just be switched off. We find out how Ticketmaster has adapted its legacy IT to DevOps

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  VMware to sell vCloud Air service and datacentre infrastructure to OVH

  French IaaS challenger to take over the reins of global vCloud Air hybrid cloud service

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

  IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Thorn CEO on using machine learning and tech partnerships to tackle online child sex abuse

  The CEO of US-based no-profit Thorn explains how cross-industry collaboration and machine learning is helping her organisation stay one step ahead of online child sex abusers

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Russian Airline at home in the cloud

  S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  AWS London users suffer "insufficient capacity" problems with T2 Micro Instances

  Users of AWS's London-hosted T2 Micro Instances suffered capacity issues on Friday 24 March

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Jon Cheyne, IT director, National Theatre

  We speak to the IT head at the National Theatre about what it means to have a 99% cloud strategy

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

  Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

  IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

  Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

  Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world