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Datacentre capacity planning

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute

  Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names

  Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud

  AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Project xCloud: Microsoft draws on Azure for device-agnostic gaming push

  Microsoft has revealed details of how its global Azure datacentre footprint will play a pivotal role in helping realise its ambitions to provide a low-latency, device-agnostic user experience to the worldwide gaming community

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening

  The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise

  Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Microsoft commits $40m to five-year push to explore 'AI for human good' use cases

  Microsoft wants to encourage non-government organisations and humanitarian groups to help it explore potential use cases for artificial intelligence during times of natural disasters

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia

  The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma to step down in 2019

  The executive chairman of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba is planning a year-long departure, as he prepares to hand over the company reins to CEO Daniel Zhang

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore

  The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub

• August 31, 2018 31 Aug'18

  Met Police begins move to Microsoft Azure as cloud-first push gathers pace

  The Metropolitan Police has enlisted the help of G-Cloud supplier New Signature to support its cloud-first ambitions, as it pushes ahead with plans to migrate applications and its on-premise server capacity to Azure

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications

  The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  DevOps researchers shine light on toll that outsourcing takes on productivity of software developers

  DevOps teams that use cloud and open source software tend to be higher performers, while organisations that outsource portions of their software development processes tend to be less productive, 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps report suggests

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Hyperscale datacentre capex investments hit new highs, Synergy Research shows

  Latest hyperscale capital expenditure tracker highlights dramatic year-on-year increase in investments from internet and cloud giants

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs

  The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Danish government in ambitious datacentre push

  Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Greater Manchester hails cloud as key to delivery of devolved health and social care in region

  Having taken back control from the government for running its own health and social care budgets, The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care (GMHSC) Partnership is now in the throes of establishing what role cloud will play in its work

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Cost savings still in short supply for cloud users, Druva research suggests

  Enterprises are increasingly moving their virtual workloads to the cloud for ease of management reasons, but cost savings remain elusive for many, suggests Druva’s latest report on cloud virtualisation

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency

  Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Home Office preps for migration of police IT systems to AWS cloud

  Digital Marketplace tender document reveals the Home Office is on the hunt for an IT supplier to support its work in migrating core police IT systems from an on-premise datacentre to the AWS cloud

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan

  The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare

• August 09, 2018 09 Aug'18

  Photobox gets snappy with mass-data migration to AWS cloud

  Photobox Group’s CTO, Richard Orme, has revealed details of how a mass-data migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud has set the firm on the path to embrace artificial intelligence

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Infinity SDC sells Here East Olympic Park datacentre to fund development of Romford facility

  The colocation provider continues to scale-back its datacentre footprint in London, with the news it has exited its much-hyped facility in the former Olympic Park in Stratford

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme

  Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Google to build third datacentre in Singapore

  The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  AWS revenue growth slows as competition in the global IaaS market heats up

  Gartner's latest look at the global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market shines a light on how the great and good of the public cloud supplier community are fairing

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  How Google is using open source, containers and hybrid cloud to win over the enterprise

  At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the search giant gave an update on how its effort to win over enterprise IT decision-makers is progressing

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Inner-city colocation space in demand as firms want better latency, says Interxion managing director

  Previous predictions that rural datacentres would be more common are being changed as enterprises aim to bring better latency to customers, says Interxion managing director Andrew Fray

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Google brings machine learning data processing to IoT edge environments

  Google is expanding its internet of things data processing offering by extending the ability for enterprises to carry out machine learning tasks in edge environments

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene on how its enterprise-readiness push is paying off

  The Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco has seen the search giant reinforce its commitment to addressing misconceptions about the enterprise-readiness of its cloud infrastructure and software propositions

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  ITPS expands datacentre to support Azure Stack and HPC

  Datacentre company ITPS expands its County Durham facility to meet client needs for high performance computing and security

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Virtus Data Centres plots further expansion of Slough colocation site

  Virtus Data Centres is adding three more data halls to its colocation facility in Slough, as well as carrying out a power upgrade at the site

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

  IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Carrenza expands public sector footprint with move into Ark Data Centres

  Carrenza parent Six Degrees hails potential for tighter public sector collaboration with Crown Hosting Services through Ark Data Centres deal

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

  Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

  Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development

  French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Google courts Hollywood creative community with Los Angeles cloud datacentre region

  Google is making a concerted effort to win over the media and entertainment industry with its cloud offerings by pairing the opening of a new datacentre region with services tailored towards Hollywood creatives

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  UK tech startup wants businesses to share their surplus compute capacity to run its cloud

  UK-based startup DADI is taking on the hyperscale giants in a bid to “democratise” the cloud and create an internet that is majority owned by the public

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

  Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Barclays banks on DevOps to support 'all-in' move to AWS public cloud

  Barclays Bank reveals details of its plans to go all-in on the AWS public cloud through adopting the principles of DevOps

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

  Public sector-focused cloud provider has launched a standalone division, dubbed UKCloudX, to oversee its efforts to aid in the fight against cybe rcrime through the roll-out of its cloud platform

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over past relationship with fellow employee

  Intel confirms interim successor for Krzanich, who played a pivotal role in the company’s multi-year efforts to offset the declining demand for PC chips by courting the datacentre community

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

  Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

  In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices