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Datacentre capacity planning
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February 08, 2016
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Feb'16
Assa Abloy outsources IT transformation to Wipro
Swedish lock maker has outsourced its IT infrastructure to Indian IT services firm
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February 08, 2016
08
Feb'16
CIOs urged to act on datacentre power outage threats
Colocation provider Verne Global calls on CIOs to pay attention to Institution of mechanical engineers' concerns over sustainability of UK energy supply
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February 01, 2016
01
Feb'16
Göteborg Energi outsources IT with €40m deal
Nordic energy company will use outsourcing agreement as a platform to modernise its IT environment
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January 27, 2016
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Jan'16
VMware to cut 800 jobs in cloud-focused company restructure
Virtualisation company VMware confident adoption of software-defined datacentres will offset softening demand for older products
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January 26, 2016
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Jan'16
Wal-Mart to make huge data and analytics investment in India
Retail giant Wal-Mart is investing heavily in its IT development centre in Bangalore, turning the city into its most important centre outside the US
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January 25, 2016
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Jan'16
Shout it out cloud: why Australian CIOs should use cloud to transform
CIOs in Australia, like everywhere else, must look at the cloud options available or face being left behind
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January 12, 2016
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Jan'16
Public cloud competition prompts 66% drop in prices since 2013, research reveals
Tariff Consulting's latest report tracks industry impact of public cloud price cuts, and reveals service range -- not cost -- is what matters
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December 22, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015
Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015
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December 18, 2015
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Dec'15
Cisco to create 200 new cloud computing jobs in UK
Networking giant outlines plans to treble the size of the Cisco Meraki team by 2017
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December 15, 2015
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Dec'15
Poundland launches e-commerce Christmas push with Rackspace managed support
Budget retailer has turned to Rackspace to ensure its first foray into online retail can withstand the seasonal rush
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December 15, 2015
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Dec'15
Interview: Lebara CTO sets out plans to go all-in on AWS cloud
Lebara was a Europe-centric, single-product telco until the cloud paved the way for it to grow its service portfolio and expand overseas
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December 11, 2015
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Dec'15
Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier
Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together
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December 10, 2015
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Dec'15
Datacentre operators must "open up" to close industry skills gap, claims IO
IO business development director Andrew Roughan said more must be done to encourage a wider range and higher number people into the datacentre industry
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December 10, 2015
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Dec'15
HPE goes live with Europe-wide cloud service catalogue
HPE’s Cloud 28+ service catalogue is open for business and hopes to encourage wider take-up of off-premises services across the continent
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December 07, 2015
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Dec'15
Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth
The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different
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December 03, 2015
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Dec'15
VMware research shines light on volume of UK enterprise data stored overseas
A poll of UK IT decision makers suggests just 37% know exactly where their enterprise data is located
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December 01, 2015
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Dec'15
Infinity SDC sells Slough datacentre assets to rival Virtus
Virtus expands greater London datacentre portfolio by purchasing rival's colocation facility in Slough
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November 27, 2015
27
Nov'15
Telefonica embarks on enterprise cloud push with Huawei
Telco will work with Chinese networking supplier to offer enterprise access to OpenStack-based public cloud services
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November 27, 2015
27
Nov'15
European colocation market growth buoyed by M&A and Safe Harbour, says CBRE
Latest European datacentre market research from CBRE looks at effect of mergers and acquisitions and Safe Harbour on colocation adoption
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November 27, 2015
27
Nov'15
Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure
Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project
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November 24, 2015
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Nov'15
Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre
Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds
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November 18, 2015
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Nov'15
Whitehall IT chiefs open up about challenges of going cloud-first in central government
Whitehall IT chiefs talk about the progress they have made with abiding by the central government cloud-first mandate
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November 18, 2015
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Nov'15
Traditional datacentres ill-equipped to cope with IoT demands, warn technology experts
BBC data scientist and Coca Cola CTO question if the datacentre is the right place to store, process and analyse IoT data
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November 10, 2015
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Nov'15
Microsoft UK datacentre plans win backing of government CTO Liam Maxwell
Government CTO Liam Maxwell speaks out about the role Whitehall's played in convincing Microsoft and others to open UK datacentres
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November 05, 2015
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Nov'15
CenturyLink considers selling off its datacentre assets
Telco says growing its colocation business will require more capital expenditure than its willing to invest, prompting an investigation into what its options are
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November 02, 2015
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Nov'15
Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing
Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud
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October 19, 2015
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Oct'15
HMRC VAT rules cut cloud costs by 20% for NHS and government departments
An HMRC ruling on reclaiming tax on cloud services could drive up the use of off-premise technologies in the public sector
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October 09, 2015
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Oct'15
Middlesex University embarks on mass datacentre migration with Exponential-e
Middlesex University has had enough of owning and running its own hardware, and looks to Exponential-e to help shift its datacentre assets
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September 29, 2015
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Sep'15
US diplomats warn of economic dangers of scrapping Safe Harbour Agreement
European Court of Justice confirms judgement on the future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement will be made public on 6 October
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September 28, 2015
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Sep'15
Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay
A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build
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August 18, 2015
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Aug'15
IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7
G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom
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August 17, 2015
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Aug'15
Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud
Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud
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August 11, 2015
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Aug'15
Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud
Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud
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July 01, 2015
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Jul'15
Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans
Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre
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June 26, 2015
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Jun'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed
The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots
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June 10, 2015
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Jun'15
OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft
The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed
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June 09, 2015
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Jun'15
Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy
Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture
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May 19, 2015
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May'15
Canonical offers SaaS pricing for on-site VMs and storage
Open source supplier Canonical has introduced software as a service pricing for on-premise storage in a move that could change the way traditional software is licensed
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May 05, 2015
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May'15
VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud
EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms
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April 24, 2015
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Apr'15
Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn
Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn
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April 17, 2015
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Apr'15
Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands
Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough
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April 16, 2015
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Apr'15
Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions
Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers
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April 09, 2015
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Apr'15
Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise
The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud
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April 08, 2015
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Apr'15
Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute
Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions
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March 27, 2015
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Mar'15
Nordics' Glenna research cloud project underway
Researchers in the Nordics will soon enjoy a new cloud infrastructure from which to share systems and resources
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March 19, 2015
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Mar'15
Government creates Crown Hosting venture with Ark Data Centres
Cabinet Office signs seven-year joint venture agreement with Ark Data Centres to create Crown Hosting Service
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March 04, 2015
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Mar'15
Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries
From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region
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February 23, 2015
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Feb'15
Apple invests in European datacentres as EU investigates tax break
Apple is investing €1.7bn in two European datacentres to support iTunes, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri
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January 21, 2015
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Jan'15
IBM revenue declines as company shifts to higher value deals
IBM has reported a 12% decline in profits for the fourth quarter of 2014 following the sale of its System x business to Lenovo
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December 30, 2014
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Dec'14
Case study: How VMware’s vCloud meets customer needs
Cloud innovation winner of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for datacentre/storage 2014, VMware, shares its story