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Datacentre capacity planning

December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023

Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI
December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing
December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2023

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2023
December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23
Government plans to regulate to tackle datacentre threats

DSIT outlines a range of proposals designed to protect data storage facilities from cyber attacks, as well as physical threats and the effects of climate breakdown

December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024
December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23
Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs

Scale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput
December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23
Singtel’s DC Tuas datacentre to cater to AI workloads

Offering 58MW of capacity, DC Tuas will be the first of Singtel’s new generation of artificial intelligence datacentres to incorporate more efficient cooling technologies
December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23
Microsoft to invest £2.5bn in doubling AI datacentre capacity in UK

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has hailed Microsoft's show of commitment to helping the UK achieve its goal of becoming an AI superpower
November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23
Nebulon upgrades SPU to Medusa2 with Nvidia DPU hardware

Nebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. Medusa2 uses Nvidia DPU hardware and its own cloud control plane
November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23
Inside India’s datacentre boom

India’s datacentre market is expected to surpass $10bn by 2028, but realising its full potential will require innovations in sustainability and improvements in connectivity

November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23
Datacentres denied: West London server farm dispute prompts calls for UK planning system reform

The government is under fire after dismissing a datacentre development in west London despite soaring demand for capacity - but how can we balance new development with protecting the UK’s green spaces?
November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23
Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentre

The Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon
November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23
Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push

Music streaming giant Spotify is forging even closer ties with its long-standing cloud partner Google in an effort to improve user experience with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning
November 14, 2023 14 Nov'23
Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup

Frankham Group ditches archaic tape backup and deploys Rubrik backup appliances and remote disaster recovery facility. Meanwhile, the engineering group assesses a move to the cloud
November 05, 2023 05 Nov'23
AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024

Amazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country
October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23
Google saves almost $3bn by running servers for six years

Extending the life of its datacentre servers and network equipment has led to significant savings over the past nine months for Google
October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23
NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight

Las Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements
October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23
Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia

Microsoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country
October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23
Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

Dell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration
October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23
Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres

Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate
October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23
Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023

Number-crunching data on 17,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte fell by around 10% in past six months while hard disk drive per-gigabyte prices stood still
October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23
Hydrogen fuel cells could find their way into more datacentres

Hydrogen fuel cells are more efficient and cleaner than alternative generator technologies, making them environmentally sustainable backup power supply options for datacentres, study finds
October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23
Versity targets Exabyte volumes in data archiving

Versity builds archiving for Exabyte data volumes on tape and in object storage. It has built its own S3 and transitioned to a GPL licence for supercomputing archives
September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23
Datacentre operators ‘hesitant’ over how to proceed with server farm builds as AI hype builds

As the hype surrounding artificial intelligence enters a new phase with the rising enterprise and hyperscale interest in generative AI, operators are not sure how to proceed with new datacentre builds, it is claimed
September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23
How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads
September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23
Cosmetics giant L'Oréal turns to Databricks for cloud data-led customer personalisation push

The cosmetics giant is building on its past work with Databricks to provide more personalised care to its customers across the globe
September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23
HMRC signs cloud-focused £4.4m mainframe management and modernisation deal with Kyndryl

The government tax collection agency is continuing its move to the cloud, but needs some help readying its mainframe estate for migration
September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23
Huawei launches OceanStor Pacific 9920 entry-level NAS

Huawei adds to its OceanStor Pacific NAS family, offering entry-level 9920 with up to 92TB per node which can be combined into clusters and also used as a SAN device
September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23
IT leaders ‘oblivious’ to the environmental impact of ‘unwanted’ data, research shows

Research commissioned by IT infrastructure services provider NTT reveals knowledge gaps among IT leaders regarding the environmental footprint of their data storage estates
September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23
TikTok opens Irish datacentre in push to safeguard European user data

Social media giant TikTok has completed the first of two datacentre builds it has under development in Ireland
September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23
The National Television Awards uses Hyve Managed Hosting to support website voting system

For the fourth year in a row, Hyve Managed Hosting has been the hosting provider of choice to the National Television Awards
August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23
AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer

The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre
August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23
CBRE forecasts rise in European colocation capacity in H2 despite power supply constraints

Real estate consultancy CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker report suggests the second half of 2023 will be a big one in terms of supply and take-up of datacentre capacity
August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23
Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights
August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases

Nutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks
August 07, 2023 07 Aug'23
HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices

HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services
August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23
VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region

MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs
August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads

Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores
July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23
How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares
July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23
Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps

The latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny
July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23
Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft
July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23
Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres

Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres
July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23
Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl

Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans
June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23
How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market

The joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market
June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals
June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23
Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre
June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23
Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development

Against a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development
May 31, 2023 31 May'23
Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage
May 23, 2023 23 May'23
Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage