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Datacentre capacity planning
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February 06, 2018
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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
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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
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February 02, 2018
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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
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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
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February 02, 2018
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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
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January 31, 2018
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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
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January 30, 2018
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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
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January 26, 2018
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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
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January 25, 2018
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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
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January 23, 2018
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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
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January 17, 2018
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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
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January 16, 2018
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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
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January 15, 2018
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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
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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 ...
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January 10, 2018
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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
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January 05, 2018
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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
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January 03, 2018
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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
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December 20, 2017
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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
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December 19, 2017
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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
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December 18, 2017
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Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
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December 15, 2017
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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
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December 05, 2017
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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
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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
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December 01, 2017
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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
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November 29, 2017
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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
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November 28, 2017
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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
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November 23, 2017
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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
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November 16, 2017
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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
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November 13, 2017
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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
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November 07, 2017
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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
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November 06, 2017
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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
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November 02, 2017
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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
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November 01, 2017
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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
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October 30, 2017
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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
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October 24, 2017
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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
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October 18, 2017
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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
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October 18, 2017
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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
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October 16, 2017
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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
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October 12, 2017
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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
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October 10, 2017
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Oct'17
Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment
Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre
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October 10, 2017
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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
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October 09, 2017
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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
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October 06, 2017
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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
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September 28, 2017
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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
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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
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September 27, 2017
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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
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September 25, 2017
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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
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September 22, 2017
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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
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September 21, 2017
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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
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September 21, 2017
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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