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Datacentre capacity planning
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December 14, 2018
14
Dec'18
UK named sixth-biggest consumer of cloud services in EU
European statistics agency’s survey into the cloud usage habits of EU member states reveals the UK to be among the continent’s biggest consumers of off-premise services
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December 14, 2018
14
Dec'18
Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars
Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector
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December 12, 2018
12
Dec'18
High-flying clouds: AWS bucks traditional business growth trends with help from the enterprise
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud juggernaut continues to go from strength to strength from quarter to quarter, but what is fuelling its non-traditional revenue growth trends?
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December 06, 2018
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Dec'18
Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute
Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019
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November 29, 2018
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Nov'18
Amazon brings public cloud services to enterprise datacentres with AWS Outposts
AWS builds out hybrid cloud play by offering enterprises access to its public cloud services in private datacentres, hosted on the same hardware its own facilities use
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November 28, 2018
28
Nov'18
Amazon sets about speeding up space data processing in the cloud with AWS Ground Station
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aiming to take the cost and complexity out of processing space data to make it more readily accessible by colocating managed ground station antennas with its cloud datacentres
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November 22, 2018
22
Nov'18
Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions
Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK
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November 21, 2018
21
Nov'18
Datacentre expansions fuel record rise in capital expenditure of hyperscale cloud giants
Data from Synergy Research Group shows another huge rise in the capital expenditure of the hyperscale cloud giants, as they rush to expand their global datacentre presence
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November 20, 2018
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Nov'18
Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres
The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers
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November 13, 2018
13
Nov'18
OpenStack restates commitment to core cloud platform as 'open infrastructure' push gathers pace
OpenStack Foundation executive chairman Jonathan Bryce used the opening keynote of its user summit to flesh out its open infrastructure proposition, while reinforcing its commitment to creating open source clouds
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November 12, 2018
12
Nov'18
AWS CEO Andy Jassy confirms Oracle data warehouse switch-off at Amazon
Months after Oracle CTO Larry Ellison cited Amazon's use of its database tech as proof of its superiority, AWS CEO confirms its parent company is now migrating off it
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November 09, 2018
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Nov'18
Nationwide Building Society banks on AWS and DevOps for customer-led digital revamp
Nationwide Building Society is in the throes of a cloud and DevOps-focused effort to re-platform its digital banking and mortgage services, its director of mobile and digital, James Smith, tells Computer Weekly
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November 07, 2018
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Nov'18
Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion
Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson
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November 06, 2018
06
Nov'18
Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona
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November 06, 2018
06
Nov'18
Power and space constraints could put brakes on European colocation growth boom, warn experts
Panellists at DCD>Europe discuss barriers to future growth of Europe's booming colocation market, as concerns about the availability of power and space grow larger
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October 31, 2018
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Oct'18
AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups
At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud
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October 30, 2018
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Oct'18
AWS retains cloud market leader status in Q3, as Microsoft and Google post gains
AWS retains its title as the world's biggest cloud provider, but the position is not going unchallenged by the likes Microsoft and Google, Synergy Research Group's third quarter market analysis shows
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace
The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham
Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London
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October 15, 2018
15
Oct'18
Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal
Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense
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October 15, 2018
15
Oct'18
Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events
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October 12, 2018
12
Oct'18
WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names
Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio
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October 11, 2018
11
Oct'18
AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Project xCloud: Microsoft draws on Azure for device-agnostic gaming push
Microsoft has revealed details of how its global Azure datacentre footprint will play a pivotal role in helping realise its ambitions to provide a low-latency, device-agnostic user experience to the worldwide gaming community
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October 02, 2018
02
Oct'18
Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening
The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology
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September 27, 2018
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Sep'18
Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise
Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up
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September 24, 2018
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Sep'18
Microsoft commits $40m to five-year push to explore 'AI for human good' use cases
Microsoft wants to encourage non-government organisations and humanitarian groups to help it explore potential use cases for artificial intelligence during times of natural disasters
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September 12, 2018
12
Sep'18
Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit
Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware
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September 10, 2018
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Sep'18
Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia
The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy
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September 10, 2018
10
Sep'18
Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma to step down in 2019
The executive chairman of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba is planning a year-long departure, as he prepares to hand over the company reins to CEO Daniel Zhang
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September 07, 2018
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Sep'18
Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore
The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub
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August 31, 2018
31
Aug'18
Met Police begins move to Microsoft Azure as cloud-first push gathers pace
The Metropolitan Police has enlisted the help of G-Cloud supplier New Signature to support its cloud-first ambitions, as it pushes ahead with plans to migrate applications and its on-premise server capacity to Azure
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August 30, 2018
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Aug'18
Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications
The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended
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August 30, 2018
30
Aug'18
DevOps researchers shine light on toll that outsourcing takes on productivity of software developers
DevOps teams that use cloud and open source software tend to be higher performers, while organisations that outsource portions of their software development processes tend to be less productive, 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps report suggests
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August 28, 2018
28
Aug'18
Hyperscale datacentre capex investments hit new highs, Synergy Research shows
Latest hyperscale capital expenditure tracker highlights dramatic year-on-year increase in investments from internet and cloud giants
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August 24, 2018
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Aug'18
Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs
The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows
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August 23, 2018
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Aug'18
Danish government in ambitious datacentre push
Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive
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August 22, 2018
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Aug'18
Greater Manchester hails cloud as key to delivery of devolved health and social care in region
Having taken back control from the government for running its own health and social care budgets, The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care (GMHSC) Partnership is now in the throes of establishing what role cloud will play in its work
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August 22, 2018
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Aug'18
Cost savings still in short supply for cloud users, Druva research suggests
Enterprises are increasingly moving their virtual workloads to the cloud for ease of management reasons, but cost savings remain elusive for many, suggests Druva’s latest report on cloud virtualisation
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August 20, 2018
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Aug'18
Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency
Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs
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August 17, 2018
17
Aug'18
Home Office preps for migration of police IT systems to AWS cloud
Digital Marketplace tender document reveals the Home Office is on the hunt for an IT supplier to support its work in migrating core police IT systems from an on-premise datacentre to the AWS cloud
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August 14, 2018
14
Aug'18
Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes
Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo
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August 14, 2018
14
Aug'18
Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan
The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare
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August 09, 2018
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Aug'18
Photobox gets snappy with mass-data migration to AWS cloud
Photobox Group’s CTO, Richard Orme, has revealed details of how a mass-data migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud has set the firm on the path to embrace artificial intelligence
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August 08, 2018
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Aug'18
Infinity SDC sells Here East Olympic Park datacentre to fund development of Romford facility
The colocation provider continues to scale-back its datacentre footprint in London, with the news it has exited its much-hyped facility in the former Olympic Park in Stratford
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August 03, 2018
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Aug'18
BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme
Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments
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August 02, 2018
02
Aug'18
EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push
Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids
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August 01, 2018
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Aug'18
Google to build third datacentre in Singapore
The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017
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August 01, 2018
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Aug'18
AWS revenue growth slows as competition in the global IaaS market heats up
Gartner's latest look at the global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market shines a light on how the great and good of the public cloud supplier community are fairing
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August 01, 2018
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Aug'18
How Google is using open source, containers and hybrid cloud to win over the enterprise
At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the search giant gave an update on how its effort to win over enterprise IT decision-makers is progressing