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• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates

  Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

  Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  US Department of Defense requests time to re-evaluate section of AWS and Microsoft JEDI bids

  The Department of Defense is to request a resubmission of information from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services about their JEDI bids, as the long-running US cloud procurement saga drags on

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

  The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace

  Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough

  Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

  Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud

  Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change

  Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Google Cloud confirmed to be a $10bn revenue run rate business

  Google parent Alphabet has separated out the contribution its cloud arm makes to its overall business for the first time in its fourth-quarter financial results

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Record-breaking rise in global cloud infrastructure spend between Q3 and Q4

  Synergy Research Group’s fourth-quarter look at the cloud infrastructure market reveals a huge jump in sequential spend since the third quarter

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  India’s 2020 budget to boost local tech sector

  A flurry of investments in quantum computing, datacentres and broadband connectivity is expected to shore up India’s technology industry from this year

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  AWS downplays risk of competitors threatening its public cloud dominance during Q4 results

  Amazon Web Services posts fourth-quarter revenue of $9.95bn for the three months to 31 December 2019 as speculation persists about the rising threat from Microsoft

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption

  Contributors to UKCloud's public sector-focused State of Cloud Adoption report flag barriers to using off-premise technologies, but could adopting a multi-cloud strategy assist with overcoming them?

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site

  Microsoft declines to comment on a local media report that the site of its Israel datacentre campus has been subject to stoppage notices after two accidents there in two days

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  CTO interview: Juan Villamil discusses changing IT culture

  Juan Villamil has worked at the Department for Work and Pensions for nearly five years. As he heads off to take up a new challenge at Imperial College, we speak to him about change and transformation

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  NHS Digital completes first two major service migrations to the AWS cloud

  The digital arm of the National Health Service confirms the system moves are the first of many service migrations it is planning to undertake

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019

  While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world

  HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  How AWS is helping boost rugby fans’ engagement in the Guinness Six Nations championship

  With the Six Nations rugby championship about to kick off, we find out how Amazon Web Services is helping to enhance the viewing experience for fans in 170 countries

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play

  Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows

  In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending

  The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation"

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2019

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Home Office details seven-point plan to cutting its Immigration Technology team's cloud costs by 40%

  The Home Office has revealed how its Immigration Technology team cut cloud costs through spot and reserved instances, scheduling, auto-scaling and encouraging developers to spring clean test environments

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Google declares report on alleged public cloud exit discussions ‘inaccurate’

  A US media report claiming senior management teams at Google and its parent company Alphabet discussed exiting the public cloud market in 2018 has been described as “not accurate” by the firm

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Ramp-up in hyperscalers’ datacentre spend in Q3 puts 2019 on course to become record-breaking year

  Latest datacentre investment data from Synergy Research Group reveals a resurgence in hyperscale investment in the third quarter

• 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

  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?

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

  As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Interview: BHF on using cloud and big data to improve heart patient outcomes

  The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has set itself the lofty goal of eradicating the fear of developing heart and circulatory disease by 2030, with the help of cloud, big data and personalisation technologies

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

  Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

  Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web