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Datacentre capacity planning
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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
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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 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 05, 2017
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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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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 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 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 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 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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September 28, 2017
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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 07, 2017
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Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub
Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
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August 28, 2017
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Aug'17
VMware making bigger push into cloud, cyber security
The virtualisation bigwig is making it easier for VMware customers to adopt public cloud services, starting with a partnership with Amazon Web Services
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August 21, 2017
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Aug'17
Kolos co-CEO: Community support ‘key’ to make world’s biggest datacentre plans a reality
Norwegian startup Kolos recently went public with its plans to build the world’s biggest datacentre, and the company’s co-CEO explains why community support matters to a project like this
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August 17, 2017
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Aug'17
Enterprises will need more bandwidth than public internet
As enterprises continue to digitise their operations over the next few years, their demand for data and bandwidth capacity will massively increase, says Equinix
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August 17, 2017
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Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway
Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
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August 04, 2017
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Aug'17
ICO highlights challenge Slack-like tools pose to public sector FOI request compliance
The Information Commissioner’s Office outlines how the growing use of cloud-based communication channels could complicate how public sector organisations respond to Freedom of Information requests
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July 31, 2017
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Jul'17
Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system
The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled
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July 24, 2017
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Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?
Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
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July 20, 2017
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Jul'17
Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres
Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region
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June 26, 2017
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Jun'17
Court ruling on Apple’s Irish datacentre planning dispute delayed by ‘shortage of judges’
The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged
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June 22, 2017
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Jun'17
British Army draws on infrastructure refresh and automation to power DevOps drive
Army opens up about how a move to adopt a software-defined datacentre setup has helped DevOps to take hold in the organisation
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June 09, 2017
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Jun'17
British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?
BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that
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June 06, 2017
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Jun'17
Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal
About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement
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May 30, 2017
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May'17
British Airways counts cost of major bank holiday IT system outage
Share price of British Airways' parent company plummets after power supply issue at "local" datacentre grounds flights at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend
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May 25, 2017
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May'17
CBRE: Demand for colocation space in London holds firm in face of Brexit
The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50
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May 19, 2017
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May'17
Microsoft to open African cloud datacentre region in 2018
Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance
The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
OpenStack Foundation slams claims open source cloud platform's days are numbered
OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce dismisses predictions around the impending demise of OpenStack
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May 05, 2017
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May'17
HSBC adopts cloud-first strategy to solving big data business problems
David Knott, chief architect at banking giant HSBC, tells Computer Weekly about how machine learning, big data analytics and cloud are changing the way it does business
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May 03, 2017
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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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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 19, 2017
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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 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 11, 2017
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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 04, 2017
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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
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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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March 27, 2017
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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 14, 2017
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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
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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
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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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February 01, 2017
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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 18, 2017
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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 09, 2017
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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