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Datacentre capacity planning

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2022

  The energy crisis has wreaked havoc on the UK datacentre market in various ways this year, with supply and pricing issues blighting operators and their business interests

• December 16, 2022 16 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Steve Capper, CIO, SNC-Lavalin

  Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  How India is moving towards net zero

  Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon

  IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Italy’s biggest datacentre campus to enjoy €500m growth spurt

  Aruba SpA raises funding to help realise ambitions to further grow mega-datacentre campus in Italy

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Google Cloud lands five-year deal with DIY specialist retailer Kingfisher

  The owner of the B&Q and Screwfix brands has enlisted the help of Google Cloud to overhaul its digital proposition for customers

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  HPE’s earnings reveal a shift back to less pricey servers

  HPE has been focused on higher-end servers due to supply chain issues, but as these ease and memory costs fall, it is set to readjust pricing

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Equinix makes added £179m investment in UK digital infrastructure

  Global digital infrastructure company announces cash injection in support of increasing customer demand in the UK

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers

  Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’

  Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

  French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Crown Hosting Data Centres secures £250m government colocation deal

  Cabinet Office joint venture with Ark Data Centres secures a second term providing colocation services to the government

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  AWS to open cloud region in Thailand

  Amazon Web Services is planning to launch a Bangkok region, following the debut of CloudFront Edge locations and Outposts in the past two years

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Indonesia’s NeutraDC outlines global ambitions

  Formed from the consolidation of Telkom’s infrastructure assets, NeutraDC has set its sights on being a global player in datacentre and connectivity services

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud fleshes out sovereign cloud capabilities for European enterprises

  Google Cloud uses the first day of its user conference to provide an update on how its efforts to meet the data sovereignty needs of European enterprises are progressing

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Equinix to open new datacentre in Indonesia

  Equinix’s new facility in Indonesia follows a slew of datacentre builds that have been sprouting up in Jakarta to cater to the country’s growing digital economy

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

  The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

  A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  US remains favoured datacentre location for world’s hyperscale cloud and internet giants

  Data released by Synergy Research Group confirms thatr the US remains the favoured location for hyperscale datacentres, but the analyst house predicts this could change in the years to come

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era

  At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  IT leaders set to step up cloud investments over next two years, Colt research suggests

  Colt’s third annual cloud adoption research report shows how the off-premise investment priorities of IT leaders are shaping up for the years ahead

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

  New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  How worsening economic climate impacts IT spending

  As inflation rises, purse strings are tightening at the tech giants, which will have a material impact on chipmakers and providers of IT equipment

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  IPA revises review of HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration

  Infrastructure and Project Authority’s annual report ranks HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration as “unachievable”, but – ahead of publication – it appears the organisation has had a change of heart

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  AWS remains high point in Amazon results as company posts another quarter loss

  Amazon Web Services continues to go from strength to strength while parent company posts second successive loss

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Virgin Media O2 Business to provide dark fibre for all Proximity edge datacentres

  Fixed wholesale connectivity arm of Virgin Media O2 Business announces initiative with network of regional carrier-neutral edge datacentres to bolster customer choice for low-latency services across UK edge colocation portfolio

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Singapore to restart datacentre builds with sustainability focus

  The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Four key need-to-knows about CXL

  Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Netflix selects Microsoft as tech partner to build out its ad-supported subscription tier

  After announcing plans back in April to roll out a lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plan to its service, Netflix has confirmed that it will be tapping up Microsoft for support in building its new offering

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Oracle to open first sovereign cloud regions for EU-based users in 2023

  Database software giant Oracle has set out plans to provide private enterprises and public sector organisations with access to sovereign cloud regions, with the first set to open in Spain and Germany next year

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

  The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre cooling firm FEL Group ceases trading

  Although its most recent financial report suggested the firm was seeing green shoots of recovery after a business restructure and financing plan, a disagreement on a key contract has resulted in FEL Group going out of business

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  High Court quashes planning permission extension for Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

  After securing additional planning permission for the site of its now-abandoned datacentre build last year, Apple has seen the offer withdrawn by the High Court – which may complicate how it sells the land on