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Datacentre capacity planning
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March 31, 2014
31
Mar'14
Case study: Alquist uses Celsius to decrease energy consumption
Alquist, winner of the Best Technology Innovation in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking, shares its winning case study
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts
Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?
The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity
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March 21, 2014
21
Mar'14
EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency
GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court
University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Upgrade networks, storage and DCIM to support the internet of things
Analyst Gartner has advised CIOs to prepare for major new investments in datacentre infrastructure to support the internet of things
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March 14, 2014
14
Mar'14
Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday
On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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March 13, 2014
13
Mar'14
CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds
The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications
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March 11, 2014
11
Mar'14
London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres
How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres
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March 07, 2014
07
Mar'14
CIOs hold fire over datacentre decisions
When it comes to devising datacentre strategies, are CIOs paralysed like rabbits in the headlights, or playing a calculated game of wait and see?
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March 04, 2014
04
Mar'14
Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling
Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
CIO interview: Phil Jordan, global chief information officer, Telefónica
Telefónica global CIO Phil Jordan is leading one of the most complex and challenging IT transformations in the private sector
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise
Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers
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February 26, 2014
26
Feb'14
Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service
Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success
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February 24, 2014
24
Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 21, 2014
21
Feb'14
Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth
Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly
Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul
The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits
Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 06, 2014
06
Feb'14
Three signs 4G backhaul deal with Virgin Media Business
Three's five-year, multi-million pound deal will see Virgin Media Business soup up the mobile operator’s backhaul to prepare it for its 4G future
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February 04, 2014
04
Feb'14
Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike
How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse
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January 31, 2014
31
Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard
Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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January 28, 2014
28
Jan'14
IT departments need to address complexity, says ZK Research founder
The founder of ZK Research says if IT departments fail to address their complexity then they are set to fall behind the times when it comes to technology
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January 27, 2014
27
Jan'14
Father of European supercomputing: Hans Meuer
Professor Dr Hans Werner Meuer, 1936-2014
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January 23, 2014
23
Jan'14
Can elephants dance in the cloud?
IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully
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January 20, 2014
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Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push
New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
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January 17, 2014
17
Jan'14
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs
NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals
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January 16, 2014
16
Jan'14
Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup
Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe
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January 14, 2014
14
Jan'14
Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises
New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium
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January 13, 2014
13
Jan'14
Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold
A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace
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January 09, 2014
09
Jan'14
UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe
Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts
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January 02, 2014
02
Jan'14
Top 10 resolutions for the new year’s datacentre
For the datacentre manager, here are 10 New Year's resolutions that may come in useful for putting in place a technology platform for 2014
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December 31, 2013
31
Dec'13
Top 10 premium content articles of 2013
Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013
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December 28, 2013
28
Dec'13
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013
The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year
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December 28, 2013
28
Dec'13
Top 10 networking stories of 2013
Computer Weekly looks back at the biggest headlines in the networking industry over the past 12 months
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December 23, 2013
23
Dec'13
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013
It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...
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December 12, 2013
12
Dec'13
Microsoft enlists elite providers to ease customer cloud moves
Cloud OS Network aims to woo organisations seeking hassle-free hybrid cloud
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December 09, 2013
09
Dec'13
Price confusion casts cloud over utility computing dream
Without interoperability and clarity of pricing, true utility computing will remain a fantasy, a new report from 451 Research suggests
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
Google revs up cloud engine in AWS catch-up race
A renewed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) push by web giant Google could heat up competition among top providers
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December 03, 2013
03
Dec'13
Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases
TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver
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December 02, 2013
02
Dec'13
Case study: Oxford Brookes revamps network with Juniper
Oxford Brookes University signs Juniper Networks to overhaul its infrastructure and modernise services for students and staff
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December 02, 2013
02
Dec'13
Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits
Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months
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November 29, 2013
29
Nov'13
Security is network professionals’ top priority for 2014
New research from TechTarget and Computer Weekly shows networking professionals see security as the biggest priority for 2014, whilst they claim the vendors’ favourite – software defined networking – is just not ready yet
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November 29, 2013
29
Nov'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries
Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here
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November 27, 2013
27
Nov'13
IT jobs remain secure as cloud adoption grows
Nine out of ten organisations redeploy freed-up resources on new projects and services, says CIF survey