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Datacentre capacity planning

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

  Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace

  Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Mutlicloud use rife in financial services sector, suggests YellowDog research

  Poll of 200 IT decision makers in the financial services sector highlights how this highly regulated industry continues to warm towards using cloud

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

  Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  NHS Shared Business Services sets ‘simplified’ public sector cloud procurement framework live

  Twenty-four suppliers selected to populate cloud procurement framework, which is geared towards simplifying the purchasing of off-premise services for public sector organisations

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  PDG, Equinix tap booming APAC datacentre market

  Major datacentre providers are expanding their footprint in a region that is set to become the biggest datacentre market by 2020

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2

  Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  European colocation market set for another record-breaking year, but London market growth slows

  CBRE's quarterly colocation tracker shows the Frankfurt market is leading the way in take-up rates, as London’s 2019 growth rates suffer a hangover

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  IBM and Vodafone offer National Express a smooth ride to hybrid cloud

  Coach operator National Express signs eight-year IT modernisation deal with IBM and Vodafone to provide it with a cloud platform to underpin future digital transformation plans

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report

  Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Oracle to launch fresh court appeal against US Department of Defense’s $10bn JEDI cloud contract

  Database giant has confirmed it will appeal the US Federal Court’s dismissal of its previous legal challenge over JEDI cloud contract