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Datacentre capacity planning

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• 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

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Father of European supercomputing: Hans Meuer

  Professor Dr Hans Werner Meuer, 1936-2014

• 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

• January 20, 2014 20 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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...

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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