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Datacentre capacity planning

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Apple datacentre plans win cautious approval from Galway County Council

  Galway County Council planning department says development can proceed – so long as Apple commits to meeting 12 separate construction conditions

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC

  IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Microsoft makes fresh legal bid to protect emails stored in Irish datacentre from US government

  Software giant's ongoing battle to protect emails stored in overseas datacentre from US government enters new phase

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Equinix buys Japanese datacentre firm Bit-isle to tap into Asia-Pacific cloud demand

  Datacentre giant Equinix reveals details of its latest acquisition target, Japanese firm Bit-isle, to meet demand for cloud and hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services

  Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  VMworld Europe User Awards 2015 open for entries until 18 September

  The VMworld Europe User Awards entry deadline has been extended to 18 September. Find out how to submit your nomination here

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Dell claims VDI projects must focus more on the client used than the datacentre

  Hardware giant Dell tells users that a good VDI experience requires more than just big datacentre investments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Demand for datacentre co-location services rises, as enterprise outsources more IT

  Demand for co-location services is rising, with enterprises preparing to pay more to outsource their IT, 451 Research reveals

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  C4L blames legacy network for datacentre services outage

  Co-location provider C4L confirms it's preparing to ditch legacy network as two-day service outage ends

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Dell creates datacentre-focused business unit to help telcos and cloud providers scale

  Hardware giant wants to make it easier for telcos and cloud providers to rapidly respond to growing demand for datacentre space

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Norwegian mountain houses Europe's biggest datacentre

  Lefdal Mine Datacenter sets out plans to build an underground facility spanning six floors in a Norwegian mountain

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series

  Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner

  Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner

• August 18, 2015 18 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

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 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

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

  Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Domino's Pizza orders Hitachi Consulting to advise on DevOps push

  Pizza firm hopes agile development and continuous IT delivery will help it stay one step ahead of its competition

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  EMC reportedly mulling over selling up to VMware

  Storage giant is said to be considering a sale to its virtualisation subsidiary, as investor pressure on the company grows

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  CTO interview: Framestore's Steve MacPherson on the pull of Gravity

  Steve MacPherson, global CTO at London-based special effects studio Framestore, wants his servers running at 96% all of the time

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  European IaaS adoption set to soar as more IT infrastructure moves off-premise

  The economics of using cloud-based storage and compute makes better financial sense for many enterprises, claims research

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  US datacentre company Digital Realty buys rival Telx to build out co-location business

  Digital Realty doubles its size with the acquisition of rival datacentre systems supplier Telx, as consolidation in the market gathers pace

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Rackspace brings public cloud managed support to Microsoft Azure

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace strikes a support partnership deal with Microsoft to monitor and control the firm's Azure public cloud service

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Datacentre upgrades emerge as top priority for medium to large-sized operators

  451 Research suggests operators are looking to consolidate smaller server rooms and move more workloads to larger, centralised datacentres

• July 01, 2015 01 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

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 26, 2015 26 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

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Goldman Sachs datacentre deal sees IO open first European site in Slough

  US datacentre provider IO has opened its first facility in the UK, with the help of global investment bank Goldman Sachs

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Datacentre operators warned off prioritising on-site security over cyber threat protection

  Too many datacentre operators prioritise physical security over protection from cyber attacks, it is claimed

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

  Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland