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• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  AWS commits to addressing long-term UK cloud skills shortage

  Amazon Web Services debuts its Re:Start programme, as it strives to do its bit to close the UK cloud skills gap

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Case study: The Alan Turing Institute takes cloud-first stance on data science research

  Computer Weekly meets the Alan Turing Institute team and finds out how using cloud-first thinking can help achieve its goal of becoming a global force to be reckoned with in data science research

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Equinix and Digital Realty reap M&A marketshare benefits in 2016, research shows

  Synergy Research's latest datacentre-focused market tracker highlights how the global colocation sector is becoming a three-horse race

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Containers tipped for enterprise take-off between now and 2020, predicts 451 Research

  451 Research predicts the hype surrounding containers will give way to fast and furious enterprise adoption over the next three years

• January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

  UKCloud cuts cloud storage pricing for public sector customers and sticks boot into US rivals

  Public sector-focused cloud provider claims latest round of price cuts means its services are cheaper to use than some of its US counterparts

• January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

  IaaS challenger OVH to open first UK datacentre by May 2017

  French hosting provider sets out plans to ramp up its UK presence with a series of datacentre builds over the coming year

• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems

  The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations

• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  Hosting provider dumps Docklands-based colocation firm for Migsolv

  Hosting provider 52 Degrees ditches Docklands-based colocation provider for security and efficiency reasons

• December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Hyperscale datacentre growth sees demand for OEM hardware soar, research shows

  Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016

  Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market

  Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Midland News Association backs shared services for improved business agility

  Midland News Association took home the Best of Show prize at the 2016 Best of VMworld Awards after cutting costs and boosting business agility by overhauling its IT infrastructure

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  HMRC slammed over tax probe into Newcastle datacentre campus investors

  HM Revenue and Customs said it is committed to clamping down on abuses of the UK tax system, following criticism of its decision to recoup tax relief payments to datacentre investors

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2016

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2016

• December 15, 2016 15 Dec'16

  Cisco confirms closure of Intercloud public cloud platform in 2017

  Networking giant says change in cloud strategy indicates how users’ technology needs are evolving

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  Microsoft to offer cloud users private network connections to UK datacentres

  Software giant Microsoft expands on UK datacentre launch to give users private network access to its facilities

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  AWS opens UK datacentre region to meet "pent-up" demand for locally-hosted cloud

  The UK managing director of AWS claims region opening will help existing customers meet their latency and data sovereignty requirements, and benefit the wider economy

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

  To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

  Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Quarter of Apac CIOs expect IT budget to rise by more than 10%

  More than half of Apac-based IT decision-makers expect budgets to rise next year and cloud-related projects look the likely destination of the extra money

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Hybrid cloud set to dominate datacentre infrastructure buying decisions

  The 2017 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests the next 12 months will see enterprise IT buyers move to increase the hybrid-readiness of their datacentre facilities

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Google to hit 100% renewable energy target for datacentres in 2017

  Google claims to be on course to hit its 100% renewable energy pledge in 2017 by ramping up its acquisition of green power sources

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Equinix to acquire 29 datacentres from Verizon for $3.6bn

  Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquisition trail once more, as it continues on its quest to expand its global datacentre footprint

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  The need for speed: Inside the cloud innovation engine at AWS

  With analysts citing Amazon’s speedy product release cycles as a major source of competitive difference for the cloud firm, AWS CEO Andy Jassy opens up about how it keeps its innovation engine ticking over

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS ramps up efforts to solve enterprise petabyte-scale cloud data migrations woes

  Cloud giant fleshes out data-transfer appliance portfolio to help enterprises shift large amounts of data off-premise

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs

  Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  Growing multi-cloud demand means providers must diversify to survive, warns 451 Research

  Two reports from analyst house 451 Research suggest cloud providers must consider adding support for competing services to their portfolios in order to survive in the hybrid, multi-cloud era

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

  CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  Colocation laggards warned about dangers of ignoring needs of hyperscale cloud giants

  Steve Wallage, managing director of datacentre-focused analyst house Broadgroup Consulting, says operators that take the time to forge closer ties with customers stand to benefit from the rise in demand for colocation from hyperscale cloud giants

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  AWS challenger Alibaba Cloud opens German datacentre to woo European enterprises

  Chinese cloud services firm Alibaba outlines plans to shake-up the European cloud market with German datacentre launch

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  IBM, HPE and T-Systems compete for Europe-wide €5.3m hybrid cloud contract

  European research groups confirm details of who made it through to next stage of their hybrid cloud procurement process

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alibaba brings public cloud to the Middle East

  Alibaba has opened a datacentre in Dubai to attract businesses in the Middle East to its public cloud services

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alibaba to open datacentre in Australia

  Alibaba Cloud will open a datacentre in Sydney by the end of 2016 as part of its global expansion

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  HumanOps: Etsy on how unclear workplace expectations contribute to staff burnout

  IT managers risk "normalising" bad workplace behaviour and contributing to employee stress by responding to emails out of hours and staying late unnecessarily, warns Etsy web operations manager

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Using AI to cut humans out of the datacentre sustainability equation

  As the idea of using artificial intelligence to reduce energy use by datacentres gathers momentum, does this spell the end of human intervention on sustainability matters?

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

  Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  T-Systems talks up post-Brexit benefits of new UK datacentre

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom opens UK datacentre to help enterprises grappling with private cloud and SAP migrations

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  SSP Worldwide under fire over cloud outage communication failings

  Insurance brokers blast SSP Worldwide over its approach to crisis communications during recent cloud outages

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Cloud set to net a larger share of enterprise IT budgets in 2017, predicts 451 Research

  451 Research's cloud and hosting market review suggests enterprise IT decision makers are preparing to ramp up with use of cloud and hosting services in 2017

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers hit by second SSP Worldwide cloud outage in less than a week

  Insurance software house comes under fire from users again, after they run into problems with its cloud service for the second time in a week

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 10, 2016 10 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers fume as SSP Worldwide suffers new cloud outage

  Insurance brokers outline dismay at fresh round of service problems so soon after September's two-week cloud outage

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  HSBC combines AWS with agile thinking to tap into growing demand for mobile banking

  Banking giant opens up about how cloud and DevOps adoption is helping it cope with the growing consumer demand for mobile and online banking services

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  AWS shares datacentre security secrets to inspire more enterprise cloud adoption

  CISO says there is no need to sacrifice security to pursue innovation in the cloud, as he reveals how the cloud giant safeguards customer information in its datacentres

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  The transformation of Randstad’s IT infrastructure

  Digitisation is one of the key themes in Randstad's latest financial report, with the transformation of its IT infrastructure a fundamental step in achieving this

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

  Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  CenturyLink sells datacentre portfolio to private equity consortium

  Telco brings an end to months of speculation about its datacentre plans by confirming it has reached a deal to offload 57 sites to BC Partners