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Datacentre disaster recovery and security

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

  Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse

• October 12, 2021 12 Oct'21

  Siemens Energy plots multi-petabyte datacentre migration with Google Cloud

  Energy technology company Siemens Energy is to downsize its datacentre footprint with an ambitious plan to move 2.6 petabytes of its business data to Google Cloud over 15 months

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities

  The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions

  Harlow-based colocation giant has secure further investment as its expansion plans gather pace

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack

  Palo Alto Networks shares details of how its red teamers found and sealed a customer vulnerability that could have led to another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack

• September 27, 2021 27 Sep'21

  Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth

  Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates

• September 24, 2021 24 Sep'21

  IT systems failure blights UK Border Force electronic passport gates

  The Home Office confirms the UK Border Force electronic passport gates are up and running again after passengers complain of missed flights due to earlier immigration processing delays

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows

  Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance

  Following its meteoric rise to social media prominence, TikTok’s parent company is confirmed as being the world’s seventh-biggest datacentre spender after just three years of expansion

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators

  With the water usage habits of datacentres coming under increased scrutiny, research from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute highlights shortcomings in the sector's reporting of how much water facilities use

• September 03, 2021 03 Sep'21

  Equinix acquires two Mumbai datacentres to expand colocation operations into India

  Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a physical presence in India for the first time, following the completion of its acquisition of two Mumbai datacentres

• August 09, 2021 09 Aug'21

  Possible ransomware attack hits Italian vaccine booking system

  It is still unclear who is behind the attack that caused Covid-19 vaccine bookings in Lazio, Italy, to grind to a halt, as despite masses of files being encrypted no specific ransom demands have been made for the decryptor

• August 09, 2021 09 Aug'21

  Alliance formed to build modular power-hungry HPC datacentres in energy surplus regions

  Green datacentre company Cloud&Heat Technologies has formed an alliance with Earth Wind & Power that will see the pair seek to build scalable, modular datacentres in areas where utility firms are producing surplus energy

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers

  TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Beeinfotech PH opens telco-neutral datacentre in the Philippines

  Datacentre startup is touting carrier neutrality, bespoke services and cyber security capabilities to meet the growing demand for co-location services in the Philippines

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Macquarie Data Centres to build Sydney North facility

  Macquarie Data Centres’ latest 32MW facility will come with a cyber security centre that monitors and manages cyber security events

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Virgin Media outage: Electrical explosion takes down network in south-east London

  Underground electrical network explosion causes ‘significant collateral damage’ to cabling infrastructure, with users in south-east London told to brace themselves for ‘at least’ 24 hours of disruption

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Secureworks sets up in EU datacentre for XDR services

  New datacentre location helps Secureworks’ customers meet EU data residency requirements

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021

  Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  Kaseya apologises for extended downtime after ransom attack

  CEO of Kaseya apologises after pushing back the restoration of the firm’s VSA service following a REvil ransomware attack

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out

  Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water

  Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm

• June 18, 2021 18 Jun'21

  Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks

  Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace

  The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations

  Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers

  Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour

  Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages

  The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users

  One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Backup survey: UK councils’ downtimes five times longer than average

  Backup product supplier Veeam’s freedom of information request finds councils’ average downtime is seven hours and that backup and disaster recovery testing is not done frequently

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push

  The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue

  Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  OVHcloud datacentre fire: Efforts underway to bring affected cloud customers back online

  OVHcloud confirms it is has reserved capacity at other datacentres, and is preparing to ramp up in-house production of its servers to bring its customers back online as soon as possible

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  OVHcloud confirms no casualties following fire at Strasbourg datacentre campus

  Local media reports suggest websites across Europe have gone offline in the wake of the blaze at OVHcloud’s datacentre campus in Strasbourg, France

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

  City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023

  French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal

  Ducati and Lenovo have signed another three-year deal that will see the MotoGP team dig deeper into its technology partner's product portfolio in pursuit of performance gains on the track by embracing virtual desktops, HPC and edge computing

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn

  Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  NHS Scotland taps Check Point to secure Covid-19 data

  NHS National Services Scotland is working with security firm Check Point to safeguard its sensitive data in the cloud and support its work on the coronavirus

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation industry shifts its focus away from business growth to business survival

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust embarks on Cisco and Cohesity-based datacentre revamp

  NHS Foundation Trust opens up about the work its done to streamline and centralise its server estate with the help of Cisco's hyperconverged technologies

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  There’s no going back to pre-pandemic security approaches

  The cyber security world will probably never return to its pre-pandemic state, and different approaches to security will come to the fore in 2021

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach

  Prestige Software exposed millions of records after failing to pay attention to the security of its cloud instances

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 accelerates cloud investments by UK IT leaders

  The updated 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget shines a light on how the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped IT leaders’ technology investment plans

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  How Malaysia’s Selangor state is tapping cloud

  Malaysian state has built a cloud-based payment services platform for citizens and is looking to tap cloud-based analytics to upgrade its surveillance cameras, among other cloud computing initiatives

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Cloud data protection keeps the Crick’s medical research Covid-secure

  Cloud data management services from Rubrik gave the Francis Crick Institute a data protection edge and have helped keep its vital work going through the pandemic

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  CISOs struggle to keep up with MITRE ATT&CK framework

  Despite its proven benefits for security, the MITRE ATT&CK framework is proving difficult for many, according to a joint study from McAfee and UC Berkeley

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  BlackBerry rolls out AtHoc crisis communications system to European datacentres

  BlackBerry seeks to capitalise on growing demand for its AtHoc crisis communications system by rolling out locally hosted instances to European datacentres

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Datacentre firm Equinix investigating ransomware attack

  A number of internal systems at cloud and datacentre firm Equinix have been affected by a ransomware attack

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

  Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Costs incurred by 'major' datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows

  The Uptime Institute's latest datacentre market survey reveals major outages are costing operators more to bounce back from

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  How analogue film will be the future of digital history

  The pandemic meant GitHub had to wait until July to store a 21TB snapshot of its code repositories, on special film that can last a thousand years

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

  Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  NGD’s mega-colocation campus in Wales acquired by Vantage Data Centers

  US-based colocation firm continues its European expansion by snapping up Next Generation Data’s Newport campus

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief

  Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Microsoft offers behind-the-scenes look at datacentre-level Covid-19 response

  Microsoft reveals how pandemic forced it to adopt 24-hour new hardware deployment schedule in datacentres to keep up with the surge in demand for services across its cloud portfolio

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Unsecured Elasticsearch server breached in eight hours flat

  Comparitech’s Bob Diachenko wanted to find out how long it would take for hackers to find and attack an unsecured, public internet-facing database, so he set up a honeypot

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks

  Cyber criminals are exploiting misconfigured AWS S3 buckets to run credit card fraud and malvertising campaigns, according to new data

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre

  Kao Data rolls out ‘built-to-suit’ service for prospective hyperscale clients, that it claims will speed up the time it takes to bring online new datacentre capacity in a cost-effective way

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover

  Ethical hackers from Citadelo uncovered a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that left private cloud owners open to takeover

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  How Sega Europe slashed incident response times using cloud SIEM

  Gaming company’s SOC radically improves its operational efficiency with Sumo Logic’s cloud SIEM service

• May 27, 2020 27 May'20

  Enterprise clouds hammered by cyber attacks during pandemic

  Remote workers logging onto enterprise cloud service accounts are an easy access point for attackers, says McAfee

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  TRC Companies pairs cloud-first push with Druva-infused data backup revamp

  US-based engineering consultancy TRC Companies scooped the prize for Best Cloud Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards with its story of how a long-overdue revamp of its data backup systems ties in with its hybrid cloud push

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  Swedish mining firm LKAB revamps data backup setup to support downtime avoidance goals

  State-owned Swedish mining company LKAB scooped the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards. Here we run through what the project involved

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Venafi buys cloud protection service Jetstack

  Jetstack specialises in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystems

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  Xen Orchestra latest victim of Salt cryptojackers

  More victims of cyber criminals exploiting two critical Salt vulnerabilities are coming forward

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  Blogging platform Ghost hacked through Salt vulnerability

  Publishing service’s network was taken over by illicit cryptominers after failing to patch a critical vulnerability

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Critical SaltStack vulnerability affects thousands of datacentres

  Critical vulnerabilities in the Salt remote task and configuration framework enable hackers to take control of cloud servers and must be patched right away

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Remote workers air long-term productivity concerns over home-working tech

  Research from managed service provider Atlas Cloud highlights concerns from remote workers that their work-from-home tech kit might not be up to the job in the long term

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe

  Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic?

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Google Cloud CEO on how its tech is supporting the fight against Covid-19

  From public sector organisations to retailers, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reveals details of how the firm's tech is helping enterprises in multiple verticals shore up their infrastructure and get on the front foot in the fight against coronavirus

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak

  Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online ...

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019

  Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

  With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates

  Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

  Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

  The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace

  Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering

  Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019

  While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world

  HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts

  Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

  As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

  Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

  Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

  Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

  Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace

  Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  National Rail Enquiries hit by rush hour real-time information outage on mobile app and website

  National Rail Enquiries confirms it is waiting on a third-party supplier for an update on when access to real-time train departure and arrival information will be restored on its website and mobile app