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Datacentre capacity planning

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  EU-US Privacy Shield: Can written assurances adequately protect EU data from US snoops?

  Privacy campaigners have been quick to question whether Safe Harbour’s replacement will be looked on favourably by the European Court of Justice

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EC confirms EU-US Privacy Shield to replace Safe Harbour data-sharing agreement

  The European Commission (EC) confirms it has negotiated a replacement for Safe Harbour, and expects it to come into force in three months

• 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

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Oracle to build cloud datacentre in Abu Dhabi

  Move seen as acknowledgement that local presence is required for increased cloud growth

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  AWS closes in on becoming $10bn run rate business

  Amazon.com posts record profit, as its AWS cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Construction of £150m biomass-powered datacentre starts in Scotland

  The developers behind Scottish green datacentre project confirm the campus is finally under construction

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Case study: Vision RT protects radiotherapy tech IP using Adapt private cloud

  Radiotherapy imaging company Vision RT shifts IT estate to Adapt private cloud to protect its corporate data

• January 27, 2016 27 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

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Aberdeen City Council embarks on shared services push with help from Brightsolid

  Local authority claims datacentre migration project should pave way for further shared service initiatives and wider cloud use

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Low oil prices to fuel datacentre expansions in 2016, claims Canalys

  Canalys claims access to cheaper energy will make it easier for datacentre operators to respond to growing demand for cloud

• January 26, 2016 26 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

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Facebook to start building second European datacentre in Ireland

  Facebook to construct second datacentre facility in Ireland after overcoming resident opposition in planning application appeal

• January 25, 2016 25 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

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Infrastructure as a service tipped by Gartner to be fastest growing part of public cloud in 2016

  Cloud infrastructure services will experience fastest growth in 2016, as enterprises move to shift more of their datacentre investments off-premise

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  South-east Asia poised for strong datacentre growth

  Businesses and IT suppliers are planning to build datacentres across the Asean region, with challenges to Singapore’s dominance emerging

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Riverbed buys software-defined WAN specialist Ocedo

  Supplier says acquisition will accelerate its Project Tiger strategy around next-generation software-defined networking services

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Amazon to create 2,500 UK jobs in Europe-wide recruitment drive

  Online retailer has set out plans to recruit staff across all areas of its business in 2016

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Broadgroup: Colocation providers must act on competitive threat posed by AWS

  Datacentre analyst house uses annual finance forum to coach colocation sector on how to respond to AWS and its public cloud

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  More telcos turning to NFV to cut costs and provision services

  Global telcos are increasingly deploying network functions virtualisation in their business, reports the OpenStack Foundation

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Security will be key public sector cloud adoption driver by 2018, predicts Gartner

  Gartner predicts that by 2018 government agencies will be citing security as a reason to move to public cloud rather than to stay away from it

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Anchor tenants sought for £150m cross-border Irish datacentre

  The development team behind a £150m dual-site datacentre that straddles the Northern Ireland border say it could generate thousands of jobs in the years to come

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Gartner: IT spending to grow just 0.6% in 2016

  US-based IT companies were hit hard by a strong dollar last year, with sales totalling $216bn less than in 2014

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  AWS on course to outstrip Amazon.com in profit terms this year, research suggests

  RBC Capital shines a light on how fast and deep end-users are going in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Microsoft drops Azure costs by up to 17% in wake of fresh AWS price cuts

  Microsoft continues on its quest to match the price of AWS storage and its cloud services with a fresh round of price cuts

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Southend-on-Sea Council embarks on £1.5m hybrid cloud datacentre refresh

  Local authority says hybrid cloud datacentre plans will pave the way for greater use of services offered via G-Cloud framework

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  IT decision makers admit ignorance over datacentre environmental impacts

  Majority of datacentre operators unable to account for environmental impact of their sites, The Green Grid's research reveals

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  European Commission awards cloud contracts worth €24m to BT

  BT secures deals that will see it provide public and private cloud services to 52 European Commission agencies and bodies

• January 12, 2016 12 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

• January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16

  Taking a closer look at the Milton Keynes smart city project

  The "MK: Smart" project took home the Best of Show prize at the recent VMworld Europe show in Barcelona – and this is why...

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Wildscreen conservation charity uses colocation to preserve endangered species media library

  Wildlife charity explains how Virtus Data Centres is helping it spread the word online about the importance of conservation

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Verizon’s rumoured datacentre sell-off: Why telcos are turning their backs on colocation

  Reports suggest US comms provider Verizon will become the latest telco to sell off its colocation assets, but what is driving this trend?

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  AWS expands datacentre footprint in Apac

  Cloud services giant is opening new datacentres in Seoul in response to Korean customer demands

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015

  Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015

• December 18, 2015 18 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

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Isle of Man eyes datacentre industry growth opportunity after Safe Harbour ruling

  Government's e-business head explains how island could be a safe haven for enterprises concerned by the Safe Harbour fallout

• December 15, 2015 15 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

• December 15, 2015 15 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

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  VMware backs out of Virtustream hybrid cloud venture with EMC

  Virtualisation giant confirms exit from hybrid cloud joint venture with parent company

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 11, 2015 11 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

• December 10, 2015 10 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

• December 10, 2015 10 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

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Jisc issues tender for second shared services datacentre in north of England

  Education network provider issues tender for second shared services datacentre, while warding off DDoS attack

• December 07, 2015 07 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

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  European Office 365 and Microsoft Azure users hit by service outage

  Microsoft claims to have addressed the issues that caused problems for Office 365 and Azure users earlier today.

• December 03, 2015 03 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

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Gartner hails datacentre cost savings of halting virtual machine sprawl

  Gartner claims CIOs could be missing out on datacentre cost savings by considering server virtualisation a done job

• December 01, 2015 01 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

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  UK competition watchdog to probe cloud storage sector for consumer law violations

  The Competition and Markets Authority vows to investigate cloud storage market, following user complaints

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Gartner urges CIOs to scrap 'five-year plan' approach to datacentre investments

  Enterprises should adopt a nimbler, “rolling” datacentre upgrade strategy so they can respond quicker to changing market trends, according to Gartner