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Datacentre cooling infrastructure
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance
The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 11, 2017
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Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies
The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
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March 13, 2017
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Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal
Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union
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October 19, 2016
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Oct'16
Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school
Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
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October 18, 2016
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Oct'16
Traditional datacentre hardware revenues hit by digital transformation efforts
Technology Business Research report sheds light on the impact that cloud, virtualisation and hyper-convergence are having on traditional datacentre hardware revenues
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September 16, 2016
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Sep'16
Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments
OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding
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July 04, 2016
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Jul'16
Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud
Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation
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June 20, 2016
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Jun'16
Singapore to pioneer tropical datacentre
If successful, trial would prove that datacentres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38°C and humidity of up to, or exceeding, 90%
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February 01, 2016
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Feb'16
Göteborg Energi outsources IT with €40m deal
Nordic energy company will use outsourcing agreement as a platform to modernise its IT environment
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January 26, 2016
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Jan'16
Wal-Mart to make huge data and analytics investment in India
Retail giant Wal-Mart is investing heavily in its IT development centre in Bangalore, turning the city into its most important centre outside the US
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December 07, 2015
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Dec'15
Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth
The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different
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November 02, 2015
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Nov'15
Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing
Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud
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October 29, 2015
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Oct'15
Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits
The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer
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October 20, 2015
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Oct'15
Philips uses AWS and IoT to deliver healthcare in the home
Philips plans to make it easier for patients to self-monitor their health using Amazon web services (AWS) cloud and the internet of things (IoT) technologies
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June 26, 2015
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Jun'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed
The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots
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April 21, 2015
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Apr'15
Fife Council approves £100m green datacentre building plans
Development of green datacentre campus designed to help Scottish businesses tap into cloud computing trend
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April 17, 2015
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Apr'15
Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands
Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough
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March 25, 2015
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Mar'15
Atomic Weapons Establishment to build supercomputer for Trident simulations
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) builds HPC cluster based on SGI ICE XA system to support Trident programme
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March 04, 2015
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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
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December 30, 2014
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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
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October 23, 2014
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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
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September 29, 2014
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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
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August 12, 2014
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Aug'14
Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices
Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs
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July 31, 2014
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Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre
Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
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July 08, 2014
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Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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May 29, 2014
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May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 09, 2014
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May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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April 15, 2014
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Apr'14
Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency
Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy
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April 10, 2014
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Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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March 18, 2014
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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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February 24, 2014
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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 11, 2014
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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 07, 2014
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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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January 31, 2014
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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
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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 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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December 06, 2013
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Dec'13
Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement
George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements
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December 03, 2013
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Dec'13
Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre
Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment
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November 26, 2013
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Nov'13
How web giants are making datacentres lean and green
Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London
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October 28, 2013
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Oct'13
Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider
Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper
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October 22, 2013
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Oct'13
Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid
Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency
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October 09, 2013
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Oct'13
Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre
A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence
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October 08, 2013
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Oct'13
Case study: Coca-Cola embarks on green IT strategy
Coca-Cola is aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its IT. Kevin Sirjuesingh, director of IT strategic initiatives, discusses the plan
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August 06, 2013
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Aug'13
Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit
With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy
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July 29, 2013
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Jul'13
Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification
Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US
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July 16, 2013
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Jul'13
IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed
Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment
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June 28, 2013
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Jun'13
Power supply is top consideration when choosing datacentres, shows study
Power supply is most important to managers choosing a new datacentre, says UK and European Data Centre Barometer study
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March 06, 2013
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Mar'13
Iceland prepares to lure Silicon Valley IT giants to build datacentres
Despite having the facilities to build a green datacentre, big firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google have not opted for a base in Iceland
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March 01, 2013
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Mar'13
Verne Global expands green datacentre footprint in Iceland
Verne Global has selected Colt's UK-made modular datacentres to expand its Icelandic facility