News

Datacentre capacity planning

• May 30, 2017 30 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

• May 25, 2017 25 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

• May 19, 2017 19 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

• May 10, 2017 10 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

• May 09, 2017 09 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

• May 05, 2017 05 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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

  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

• 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload

  Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Traditional datacentre hardware revenues hit by digital transformation efforts

  Technology Business Research report sheds light on the impact that cloud, virtualisation and hyper-convergence are having on traditional datacentre hardware revenues

• October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16

  VMware and AWS joint venture to help enterprises manage multi-cloud environments

  Virtualisation giant VMware reinforces its commitment to helping enterprises manage multi-cloud deployments with AWS partnership

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  How Linux has influenced modern IT

  On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments

  OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Dell Technologies to cut up to 3,000 jobs

  Creating the world’s largest privately controlled tech company is to come at the price of up to 3,000 jobs following Dell’s acquisition of EMC

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Date set for landmark hearing into EU-US data transfers

  Irish court hearing triggered by Austrian law student Max Schrems could have huge implications for EU-US trade and the data privacy rights of millions of EU citizens

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report

  The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  French public sector’s never-ending struggle with the cloud

  The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout

  Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout