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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
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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
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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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
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April 25, 2017
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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
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April 21, 2017
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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
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April 20, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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April 18, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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February 22, 2017
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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
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February 22, 2017
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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
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February 17, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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February 06, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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January 31, 2017
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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
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January 25, 2017
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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
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January 24, 2017
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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
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January 20, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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