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February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18
CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres

The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres
February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18
Traditional datacentres to host just 6% of workloads by 2021, predicts Cisco

The seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index highlights how the demand for workloads hosted in traditional private datacentres is continuing to wane in the face of cloud
February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
Interxion closes in on Equinix in battle for Emea colocation market supremacy

The latest colocation market leaderboard from Cloudscene shows Interxion could be gaining ground on giant provider Equinix
February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
AWS becomes $20bn company as demand for public cloud continues to soar

Amazon Web Services enjoys another stellar quarter of revenue growth, while its parent company continues to profit off the success of Alexa devices

February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system
January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18
Colocation providers told to team up with telcos to meet edge datacentre demand

Colocation providers can ill afford to take an “us and them” view of telcos when it comes to addressing the burgeoning demand for edge computing resources, says Datacloud UK panel
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing

The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
Case study: Network Rail uses cloud to get its digital data preservation plans on track

Digital-by-default railway infrastructure operator, Network Rail, is building a cloud-based archive to protect the organisation’s data assets for future use
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
NHS Wales IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentres?

A country-wide outage of several core NHS Wales IT systems has prompted questions about the organisation’s datacentre failover procedures
January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18
Irish planning chiefs dismiss appeal against Amazon's €1bn datacentre build

Irish planning chiefs have granted Amazon permission to proceed with its plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin to support the continued European growth of its cloud business

January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18
Google vows to simplify creation of custom machine learning models for developers

Google’s ongoing push to lower the barriers to machine learning and artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises moves up a gear with custom model creation
January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18
Google to open five more datacentre regions across the globe in 2018

Cloud giant Google is on a mission to boost the capacity and performance of its services, through investments in new datacentres and subsea cables
January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18
Demand for cloud-enabling infrastructure products soared in 2017, IDC research shows

IDC's latest cloud IT infrastructure market tracker shows the demand for public and private cloud-enabling servers, storage and Ethernet switches is showing no signs of slowing
January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...
January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18
Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal

Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities
January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18
2017 cemented cloud as the ‘new normal’ for enterprise IT, claims Synergy Research Group

According to Synergy Research Group, 2017 marked another important milestone in enterprise adoption and acceptance of cloud
January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18
Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency
December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2017

Over the course of 2017, we saw hyperscale cloud giants continuing to invest in their UK presence, as well as Apple’s ongoing planning permission delays in Ireland and the disruption caused by the datacentre downtime from British Airways
December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17
Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants
December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
December 15, 2017 15 Dec'17
AMD hits pay dirt in the cloud with EPYC server platform

Chipmaker AMD is looking to regain lost ground with its EPYC server platform, and it seems the cloud provider community is getting on board with its plans
December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17
London colocation market on course for record-breaking year of take-up, CBRE data shows

CBRE quarterly report into European colocation growth trends shows demand for London datacentre space is holding firm in the face of Brexit
December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17
US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets
December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels urges enterprises to get their encryption act together

During the closing keynote of AWS Re:Invent 2017, Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, warned enterprises of the perils of overlooking encryption
November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17
AWS CEO says enterprise appetites for proprietary database tech are waning

Speaking at the Re:Invent 2017 Partner Summit Keynote, AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at the firm's cloud competitors, and says the functionality gap between them all is widening
November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17
Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre
November 23, 2017 23 Nov'17
Gartner on the Pentagon’s ‘misconfigured’ AWS S3 bucket data leak

After details of the Pentagon’s online data collection habits came to light in the wake of its recent AWS S3 bucket leak, Gartner said web users should not be surprised to know the intelligence services are keeping tabs on their online activities
November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17
Budget 2017: TechUK demands datacentre energy reform to stop post-Brexit market slump

TechUK airs fears over long-term growth and prosperity of UK datacentre market post-Brexit, without urgent government help on rising energy costs
November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17
DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run
November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17
OpenStack flags edge computing as ‘surprise’ emerging use case for open source cloud tech

OpenStack Foundation executive director, Jonathan Bryce, admits to being caught on the back-foot by the growing number of enterprises using its software to build edge computing environments
November 06, 2017 06 Nov'17
OpenStack revenue to hit $6bn by 2021 as user confidence in open source cloud grows

Reports by 451 Research and the OpenStack Foundation suggest enterprise use of the open cloud platform is on the rise, as issues around installation and upgrades are addressed by the developer community
November 02, 2017 02 Nov'17
Irish government seek assurances over Apple's commitment to Athenry datacentre

The Prime Minister for the Republic of Ireland is to meet with Apple chiefs to discuss its ongoing commitment to building its much-delayed datacentre in Athenry, County Galway
November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17
Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors

Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold
October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17
Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence
October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17
IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world

As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
British Medical Journal CDO on using Amazon and Alibaba for its multi-cloud strategy

A year on from embracing DevOps and private cloud to help speed up its software development lifecycle, British Medical Journal CDO Sharon Cooper shares an update on how its multi-cloud move is going
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17
Puppet on why people, process and technology are mission critical to DevOps success

At the PuppetConf user and partner summit in San Francisco, Puppet and its customers shared insights on how best to address the people, process and technology sides of the DevOps success equation
October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17
Apple wins Irish court backing for €850m datacentre in Athenry

After more than two years of planning delays and appeals, the Irish court has quashed two legal challenges to Apple’s plan to build a datacentre in the west Ireland town of Athenry
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment

Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
GE opens up on how its move to the AWS public cloud is progressing

The multi-national conglomerate claims to have migrated more than 2,000 apps to the AWS cloud, as its digital transformation efforts continue apace
October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17
Italian cloud provider banks on Brexit to fill country’s largest datacentre campus

Campus will be powered by on-site renewable energy sources as Aruba sets sights on securing tenants displaced by the UK’s EU departure
October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17
Brother moves core internal applications to Amazon cloud

Manufacturer Brother has moved its back-office and customer-facing systems to the Amazon cloud using public and hybrid models
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Virtus sets out plans to build London’s largest datacentre campus

Colocation provider outlines the next phase of its expansion plans, which will see it build out its presence in west London
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Microsoft Azure joins Géant's Europe-wide IaaS mega-framework

Microsoft joins Géant's bid to create a cost-effective and accessible cloud procurement hub for Europe's education and research community
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
Gartner: Alibaba outperforms AWS, Microsoft and Google in public cloud revenue growth

While Amazon remains leader of the IaaS and public cloud market, Gartner’s figures highlight emerging competitive pressure from Alibaba on the other runners and riders in the market
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Outcome of Amazon Irish datacentre planning appeal potentially delayed until November

Amazon faces having to wait up to two months to hear the outcome of an environmental appeal against its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
NetApp privacy chief warns enterprises off investing in GDPR snake-oil tech

Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event in Dublin, NetApp chief privacy officer, Sheila FitzPatrick, outlined her concerns over tech suppliers cashing in on the enterprise rush for GDPR compliance
September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17
Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays

Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry
September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17
Cern calls on industry to collaborate on its datacentre challenges

Particle accelerator lab has set out a plan, inviting the industry to help it develop next-generation IT to support science