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Datacentre capacity planning

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Executive interview: GE software chief Bill Ruh on value of an industrial cloud

  Bill Ruh believes machines are getting smarter. The company has expanded its vision of an industrial internet to an industrial cloud

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Telehouse's £135m datacentre to open in London in 2016

  London datacentre provider reveals further details about the forthcoming opening of its new facility in London Docklands

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Alibaba emerges as AWS challenger after US datacentre opening

  Chinese internet giant outlines US datacentre plans as it prepares for cloud battle with AWS, Microsoft and Google

• March 04, 2015 04 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

• February 23, 2015 23 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

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Europe awakes to Google Compute Engine failure

  Google Compute Engine is unavailable for two hours due to a network problem

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Enterprise IT faces upheaval to move to cloud-first computing

  IT departments should prepare to change working practices to support cloud-based computing

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 open for entries

  Find out how to enter Computer Weekly’s third annual European User Awards

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

  The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Amazon to put cloud on the balance sheet

  Amazon will report on AWS in its financials from Q1 2015, as it continues to invest heavily in the cloud service

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Will the mainframe survive IBM job cuts?

  The mainframe survived minicomputers, the client server, the web and Y2K, but its future is under scrutiny as IBM prepares a rethink

• January 21, 2015 21 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

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Intel's mobile communications revenue freefalls

  Intel’s mobile and communication revenues plummet 85% in 2014 full-year financials but PC and datacentre earnings on the up

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Gartner: Cost of customer relationship management set to fall 25% due to price war

  The cost of customer relationship management (CRM) software is set to drop by 25%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner

• January 02, 2015 02 Jan'15

  Case study: How DER Deutsches Reisebüro GmbH & Co OHG won two VMworld Europe User awards

  Best desktop virtualisation project winner of the VMworld Europe User Awards 2014, DER Deutsches Reisebüro, shares why it won

• December 30, 2014 30 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

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  Case study: Virtus’s second London datacentre delivers innovative efficiency

  Best technology innovation winner in the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014, Virtus, shares its story

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Procserve partners with CenturyLink to meet government requirements

  Procserve, the public sector winner of the 2014 Datacentre/Storage prize at Computer Weekly's European User Awards, shares its story

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2014

  In 2014's datacentre market, trends of social, cloud, analytics and big data have influenced datacentre architectural decisions

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  How AWS remains resilient and enterprise focused

  Eight years ago no one had heard of Amazon Web Services. Today it is at the forefront of enterprise computing

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Case study: Sky News turns to Red Hat for IT upgrade

  To ensure the resiliency of its operations, Sky News has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Red Hat Satellite in two datacentres

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  IBM cloud arrives in India with first datacenter

  IBM is planning its first datacenter focused on providing cloud services to Indian organizations

• November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

  IBM releases hybrid cloud-based DevOps service

  IBM has beefed up its DevOps portfolio by releasing a cloud-based DevOps services, software and infrastructure toolset

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  BSkyB turns to DCIM to reduce carbon footprint and maximise service uptime

  BSkyB replaces its legacy datacentre management software with Schneider Electric’s DCIM suite to save time and energy

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  Businesses struggle to bind cloud services together, says Forrester

  Most enterprise cloud users struggle to consolidate their cloud services and gain a holistic view of their infrastructure

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Capgemini third-quarter revenues grow 2.8% to €2.59bn

  IT services provider Capgemini posts 2.8% revenue growth in Q3 2014 to €2.59bn with strong UK and US demand

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Cisco Cloud Index: Cloud to represent 76% of datacentre traffic by 2018

  Over the next five years, datacentre traffic will nearly triple with cloud representing more than three quarters of the total traffic

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  HDS takes a stab at managed service provider market

  HDS announces Hitachi Cloud Compute-as-a-Service and updates Unified Compute Platform

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation

  Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage

  Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty

  Cloud providers IBM and Google build datacentres in the EU as enterprises insist on keeping their data in Europe

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  AWS to launch second EU datacentre region in Frankfurt

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services has launched a datacentre region in Frankfurt Germany

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner

  Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  What’s driving the adoption of desktop as a service?

  Two important factors are driving the cloud desktop phenomenon – the BYOD trend and the migration of enterprise workloads to the public cloud

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%

  Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit

  IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres

  Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

  The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

  Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Cloud, web-scale IT and IoT in Gartner’s 2015 top technologies

  Research firm Gartner has highlighted the top 10 technology trends for 2015

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  How YouGov deployed Veeam Backup & Replication

  YouGov has deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to switch suppliers following the breakdown of a managed services contract

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

  ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Convenience foods producer tastes success with software-defined datacentre

  Greencore Group signs a fully managed software-defined datacentre service to speed up its plans for expansion

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

  Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C

  Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

  Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers