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Datacentre capacity planning

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy blames 'significant political interference' for Amazon losing $10bn JEDI deal

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy claims White House meddling led to it losing out to Microsoft on the US Department of Defense JEDI contract, despite its cloud platform being demonstrably superior

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

  AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Record-breaking colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed space availability concerns

  Latest market data from real estate company CBRE suggests the final three months of 2019 could turn the year into another record-breaker for the European colocation market

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Unisys nears completion of SaaS-based upgrade of Holmes2 police IT system

  Global IT provider Unisys says the last of the 43 police forces in England and Wales that need to upgrade to the cloud-based version of its Holmes2 shared investigations system will complete in early 2020

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Fashion retailer AllSaints on using Google Cloud to handle online shopping traffic peaks

  AllSaints shifts website workloads into Google Cloud to protect against website downtime, as well as embarking on microservices-led push to modernise its infrastructure

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Carbon Black to open Australia datacentre in 2020

  Australia datacentre comes on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black and will serve organisations with data sovereignty requirements

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

  The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

  Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts

  Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Government review of cloud-first policy concludes guidance should remain unchanged

  A review into the continued relevance of the UK government’s six-year-old cloud-first policy has concluded its ‘brand recognition’ is too strong for it to be scrapped, according to GDS

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones steps down amid sexual misconduct allegations

  CEO of Manchester-based cloud computing firm denies allegations of misconduct, and is taking a leave of absence while the claims are investigated

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Digital Realty and Interxion gun for market leader Equinix through colocation mega-merger

  The colocation market is continuing to consolidate, with Digital Realty confirming plans to acquire and merge with Europe's second biggest colocation provider, Interxion

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

  The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?