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Datacentre backup power and power distribution
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June 14, 2018
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Jun'18
Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre
Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption
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June 12, 2018
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Jun'18
Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup
One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator
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June 11, 2018
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Jun'18
Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows
Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue
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June 06, 2018
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Jun'18
Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney
Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world
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May 02, 2018
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May'18
Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech
Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place
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April 25, 2018
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Apr'18
Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden
Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm
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April 09, 2018
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Apr'18
Norway government backs ambitious datacentre investment plan
Norway has a plan to be a leading location for datacentres with a policy that will put it in direct competition with some of its Nordic neighbours
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April 06, 2018
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Apr'18
Microsoft outage: Europe-wide downtime locks Office 365 and Azure users out of cloud
Microsoft engineers cite Azure Active Directory fault as cause of cloud customer service woes across Europe
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March 05, 2018
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Mar'18
Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres
Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m
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March 05, 2018
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Mar'18
AWS outage: Datacentre power cut knocks ‘hundreds’ of internet services offline
A year on from Amazon’s S3 outage at its US-East-1 datacentre region, a power loss incident in the same place has caused a fresh round of service disruption for the cloud giant’s customers
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March 05, 2018
05
Mar'18
Microsoft Singapore to tap solar energy for datacentre operations
Software giant Microsoft will buy 100% of the renewable energy generated by solar panels installed on rooftops across Singapore to power its datacentre operations
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March 01, 2018
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Mar'18
Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres
As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image
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February 28, 2018
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Feb'18
Colt DCS ramps up renewable power use across European datacentre estate
Carrier neutral datacentre operator Colt DCS claims the technology industry has a "moral duty" to do more than the bare minimum to ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the environment
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February 21, 2018
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Feb'18
FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise
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February 14, 2018
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Feb'18
OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers
In a whitepaper co-authored by a number of open source advocates, the OpenStack Foundation makes the case for taking a teamwork approach to tackling the barriers to widespread edge computing adoption
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February 13, 2018
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Feb'18
Cryptocurrency mining consuming more electricity than Iceland’s homes
Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland could use more power than all the households in the country combined
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February 07, 2018
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Feb'18
Beyond Brexit: Can the hyperscalers future-proof the growth of the UK colocation market?
Demand for colocation datacentre space in London is booming, on the back of the hyperscale cloud giants setting up shop in the UK, but will it be enough to safeguard the sector’s growth in the face of Brexit?
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February 06, 2018
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Feb'18
CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres
The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres
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January 30, 2018
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Jan'18
IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing
The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace
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January 26, 2018
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Jan'18
Researchers calculate financial toll of cloud outages on US business sector
A joint report by Lloyd's of London and AIR Worldwide reveals the financial disruption a three to six-day cloud outage could cause to US-based businesses
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January 25, 2018
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Jan'18
NHS Wales IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentres?
A country-wide outage of several core NHS Wales IT systems has prompted questions about the organisation’s datacentre failover procedures
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January 24, 2018
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Jan'18
Colt Technology Services outage: European customers hit by internet connectivity issues
Voice and data network provider Colt Technology Services suffers outage, blighting users in several European countries
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January 16, 2018
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Jan'18
AWS commits to expansion of UK datacentre region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a third availability zone to its London region, as demand for locally hosted cloud services continues to grow in the UK
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January 15, 2018
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Jan'18
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy
Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...
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January 10, 2018
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Jan'18
Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal
Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities
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January 03, 2018
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Jan'18
Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC
Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency
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December 18, 2017
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Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
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November 28, 2017
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Nov'17
Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs
The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre
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October 18, 2017
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Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing
Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
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September 07, 2017
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Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub
Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
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August 17, 2017
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Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway
Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
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July 24, 2017
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Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?
Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
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July 20, 2017
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Jul'17
Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres
Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region
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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
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June 09, 2017
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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
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June 06, 2017
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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
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May 30, 2017
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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
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May 10, 2017
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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
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 11, 2017
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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
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March 13, 2017
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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
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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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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
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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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 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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August 08, 2016
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Aug'16
IT failure grounds Delta flights worldwide
US airline Delta has temporarily grounded flights worldwide after a power failure took key IT systems offline in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia
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July 25, 2016
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Jul'16
Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report
The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers
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July 04, 2016
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Jul'16
Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud
Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation
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June 20, 2016
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Jun'16
Singapore to pioneer tropical datacentre
If successful, trial would prove that datacentres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38°C and humidity of up to, or exceeding, 90%