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May 03, 2017 03 May'17
Google hails end of multi-year enterprise cloud migrations

Google cloud chief, Diane Greene, claims multi-year datacentre migrations are no longer the norm, as some firms are making the move off-premise in weeks or months
May 02, 2017 02 May'17
Uptime Institute research: 65% of enterprise applications still run in private datacentres

According to the Uptime Institute’s seventh annual industry survey, enterprise-owned datacentres and colocation facilities remain primary compute venue for many organisations
April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure

Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
Carrenza's US datacentre expansion plans help spend control firm get cloud compliant

Fourth, a customer of UK-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Carrenza, explains how the firm’s decision to expand its US datacentre footprint has benefited its business

April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
MigSolv offers SME colocation clients way-in to public sector deals through Janet network

Norwich-based colocation provider embarks on technology tie-up with Janet's commercial arm to ensure clients have direct access to education sector network
April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17
Research: OpenStack user satisfaction ratings drop, as adoption of the open source cloud rises

Use of OpenStack-powered clouds continues to grow across companies of all sizes, but customer satisfaction levels appear to have dropped, research shows
April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17
Dunkin' Donuts and Here Technologies join AWS cloud customer roll call

Companies have separately declared AWS to be their preferred infrastructure partner, as the cloud giant continues to make significant in-roads into the enterprise
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Equinix tops global colocation leader boards on coverage and connectivity grounds

Colocation giant Equinix emerges as the one to beat in Cloudscene’s inaugural rankings of globe’s biggest datacentre service providers
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Rebuild and revamp: Housing association on benefits of ditching its legacy, on-premise tech

Bournemouth Churches Housing Association (BCHA) explains how ditching its 15-year-old legacy IT system has led to an uptick in the responsiveness and levels of customer care it offers
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
Virtus Data Centres plots to expand Slough colocation footprint

Colocation provider sets out plans to expand its datacentre footprint in Slough, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows

April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Growth of hyperscale operators risks squeezing smaller players out of cloud, research warns

As the hold of the hyperscale datacentre operators on the wider cloud market tightens, Synergy Research Group looks at the impact their influence is having on the wider IT market
April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
AWS cloud dominance under growing threat from Google and Microsoft, says 451 Research

Latest Voice of the Enterprise report from 451 Research suggests competition in the IaaS market is hotting up, with Microsoft and Google posing a growing threat to AWS
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
VMware to sell vCloud Air service and datacentre infrastructure to OVH

French IaaS challenger to take over the reins of global vCloud Air hybrid cloud service
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
AWS to open Nordic datacentre region in 2018

Cloud services giant outlines plans to open a datacentre region in Stockholm to offer Swedish cloud customers access to low latency network connections
March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17
AWS London users suffer "insufficient capacity" problems with T2 Micro Instances

Users of AWS's London-hosted T2 Micro Instances suffered capacity issues on Friday 24 March
March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17
How Google is riding the multi-cloud wave to win over the enterprise

The Google Cloud Next conference saw the internet giant share details about how enterprise appetite for multi-cloud deployments are working in its favour
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
National Theatre moves to Office 365

The National Theatre is increasingly using cloud technology, with the implementation of cloud-based productivity tools its latest move
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Powering the cloud: Unlocking the secrets of Google datacentres

At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the internet search giant opened up about how it secures, operates and stress-tests its growing cloud datacentre fleet
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Rackspace to roll out managed service support for Google Cloud Platform in Q3 2017

Managed cloud company becomes first managed service provider partner for the Google Cloud Platform
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt: “Enterprise must move to the cloud now”

The executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says the “speed limit” to moving to the cloud has been lifted, and enterprises need to pick up the pace of their plans to move off-premise
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Google: Democratisation of AI tech to ‘greatly improve’ quality of life

Fei-Fei Li, Google's chief scientist of artificial intelligence and machine learning, talks up societal benefits of making artificial intelligence tools and technologies accessible to all
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
NSPCC CIO on combining hybrid cloud with managed services to boost Childline resiliency

NSPCC CIO Ray Bilsby sets out the work the children's charity is doing to boost the resiliency of its flagship services, with the help of its managed services partners
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
AWS storage outage knocks US-hosted websites and cloud services offline

Cloud services giant suffers multi-hour outage that reportedly had a knock-on effect for 20% of the internet
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Cloud demand fuels record European growth for colocation market in 2016, confirms CBRE

CBRE’s full-year colocation tracker data confirms record take-up for colocation space across Europe in 2016
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Global public cloud spend to soar by 25% this year, says IDC

Market watcher’s latest public cloud market forecast highlights growing demand for off-premise services across the globe
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
FOI requests reveal appetite for datacentre change in London’s local councils

Research conducted by cloud service provider HyperGrid suggests IT departments in local councils are working with outdated and underperforming datacentre infrastructures
February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Cisco sales fall as traditional product sales slump

Cisco's traditional product sales such as switches are falling, but revenues in emerging products in areas such as security are on the up
February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Singapore’s ST Telemedia expands datacentre footprint

Additional colocation facilities will cement Singapore’s position as a regional datacentre hub
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Enterprise IT buyers shed light on server makers’ shortfalls in customer service and support

451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report sees IT buyers rate server and converged infrastructure makers on their approach to customer service and support
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Winter Olympics 2018 critical systems will all be in the cloud

Atos is on course to hit its target of having all core Olympic IT systems in the cloud by next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea
February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17
British Gas calls on datacentre operators to help solve UK's looming energy supply crisis

British Gas makes the case for datacentre operators to do their bit to close the UK energy supply and demand gap by hooking up their backup power supplies to the National Grid
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
Colocation giant Equinix eats up IO's UK datacentre business

Equinix has hit the acquisition trail once again to snap up the UK business of US modular datacentre provider IO
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
Dutch businesses have heads in the cloud

In the Netherlands, cloud computing is used by the central bank, large multinationals like Unilever, startups such as WeTransfer, and even a Dutch potato processing plant in China
February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17
AWS results hint at slowdown in cloud giant’s annual growth rate

Amazon Web Services reports another strong quarter, but analysts point to slowing of annual revenue growth
February 02, 2017 02 Feb'17
Schneider Electric patches DCIM software security hole

Users of StrucxureWare datacentre monitoring software urged to upgrade to latest version after discovery of critical vulnerability by security researchers
February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17
Executive interview: Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals firm's big cloud bets for 2017

New Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals details of what the future holds for the managed cloud company now it's under new ownership
January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17
Open source cloud community condemns President Trump immigration ban

Tech leaders from several major open source cloud initiatives condemn President Donald Trump's travel ban, and claim it could harm diversity and hinder the tech industry's wider innovation potential
January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17
Outdated IT budget models slow enterprise cloud adoption, CIO research suggests

Research from IT services provider Trustmarque suggests the way that enterprises run their IT budgets is out of step with how they consume and pay for cloud
January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17
Stockholm offers sustainable datacentre safe haven to hyperscale cloud firms

Sweden's capital city looks to capitalise on recent country-wide tax breaks for datacentre operators, to encourage cloud and colocation firms to set up shop in its new environmentally-friendly business parks
January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17
SSP Worldwide blames engineers at London datacentre for new cloud outage

Insurance software provider says latest service outage was caused by power problems at third-party datacentre site
January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17
Facebook to build third datacentre in Europe to underpin virtual reality push

Social networking giant hails country's cool climate as one of the many reasons it has decided to site its latest server farm in Denmark
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
GDS declares public cloud secure enough for "vast majority" of public sector

Government Digital Service moves to allay public sector concerns about using off-premise services in a bid to speed up cloud adoption beyond Whitehall
January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17
Oracle commits to expanding UK datacentre footprint in 2017

Database software giant’s renewed commitment to the UK market is part of a wider push to ramp up its cloud presence worldwide
January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17
Private and public cloud fuelled Emea infrastructure sales in Q3, shows IDC data

Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data
January 13, 2017 13 Jan'17
Demand for datacentres in "edge" countries tipped to fuel next wave of colocation M&A

451 Research predicts developing countries will be the source of increased colocation market revenue in the years to come, and fuel a fresh wave of takeovers