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Datacentre capacity planning

• May 23, 2019 23 May'19

  VMware CEO outlines laws of hybrid cloud

  Pat Gelsinger points out three laws that will make the case for the hybrid cloud future: economics, physics and data sovereignty

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  University of Bradford deploys HPC to aid research into preserving world’s heritage sites

  University teams up with OCF to deploy high-performance computing environment to support efforts to create 3D representations of world heritage sites

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Inward investment into Irish datacentre market set to top €10bn by 2022, research claims

  Latest quarterly market report from Host In Ireland shines a light on how the Irish economy is benefiting from the country’s ongoing development into key European datacentre hub

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  NHS Digital starts on multi-cloud push with VMware Cloud on AWS deployment

  NHS Digital has adopted a cloud-first strategy to ensure it has the correct infrastructure in place to support the online delivery needs of its service users

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Cloud infrastructure supplier growth rates start to stabilise as market matures

  Latest quarterly cloud market tracker data from Synergy Research Group suggests sector is maturing, despite Amazon, Google and Microsoft's growth outpacing the rest of the market

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  Redefining OpenStack in the ‘open infrastructure’ era

  The OpenStack Foundation’s inaugural Open Infrastructure Summit saw it share a series of updates on its efforts to expand its technological reach by forging closer ties with both users and adjacent open source communities

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  OpenStack Foundation urges enterprises to embrace open, collaborative tech development

  OpenStack Foundation executive director warns enterprises off using closed, non-collaborative product development processes to get ahead of the competition

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Europe is playing catch-up with the US on cloud adoption, research suggests

  Report by O'Reilly media shines a light on how cloud adoption is progressing across the globe, and how this could be affecting follow-on use of other technologies too

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  JEDI cloud chief quits as award date for controversial 10-year US government cloud deal nears

  Chris Lynch, director of the US Defence Digital Service, has assured staff that the 10-year JEDI cloud project will proceed as he confirms his departure

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  AWS bags multi-year deal to support Ford-backed bid to create open connected car cloud platform

  Amazon Web Services has secured a multi-year deal to provide underlying support for a Ford-backed bid to create an open cloud platform to accelerate the development of connected car services

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Eagle Eye enlists Rackspace to lead 'all-in' Google Cloud Platform migration

  Digital marketing platform provider Eagle Eye is leaning on Rackspace to support its move to the Google Cloud Platform

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Apple spends upwards of $30m a month on AWS during first quarter of 2019, report claims

  According to US media reports, Apple is spending upwards of $30m a month on procuring cloud services from Amazon Web Services

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Construction halted at Apple datacentre in Denmark over alleged contractor dispute, report suggests

  A local media report suggests construction of Apple's first non-US datacentre has halted in Denmark over a dispute over missed deadlines by the contractor tasked with delivering the build

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Conclusion of legal row over Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre fuels site takeover hopes

  After four years of planning delays and legal wrangles, Irish Supreme Court dismisses appeal lodged by objectors to the Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build