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Datacentre disaster recovery and security
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May 07, 2025
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May'25
Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows
Datacentre outages are becoming less common and severe, but power supply issues remain enduring cause of most downtime incidents
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March 31, 2025
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Mar'25
Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill
The government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers
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March 18, 2025
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Mar'25
Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions
In a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments
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March 11, 2025
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Mar'25
Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities
Research report, featuring input from datacentre market stakeholders and sociological experts, makes case for socially integrating server farms into society
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January 20, 2025
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Jan'25
Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do
Despite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do
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December 03, 2024
03
Dec'24
VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp
NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure
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November 27, 2024
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Nov'24
Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance
Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants
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October 08, 2024
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Oct'24
UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
The UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses
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August 22, 2024
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Aug'24
Post Office apologises for IT problem text alert that was never sent
After subpostmasters complained they received no communications from the Post Office when they could not log in to the Horizon IT system, the organisation admits a text message alert failed to be sent
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July 31, 2024
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Jul'24
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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May 08, 2024
08
May'24
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
An IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause
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April 22, 2024
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Apr'24
Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance
Fujifilm to add 100TB SME-focused Kangaroo tape infrastructure in a box to existing 1PB offer, as energy efficiency and security of tape make it alluring to customers
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April 05, 2024
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Apr'24
Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe
Uptime Institute's annual outage tracker report suggests frequency and severity of crashes are declining, but warns datacentre operators not to get complacent
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March 18, 2024
18
Mar'24
Cohesity: We won’t abandon NetBackup customers or force migration
CEO promises no forced migration to Cohesity and not to abandon any NetBackup product while building new leadership in artificial intelligence and security around Cohesity Gaia
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March 15, 2024
15
Mar'24
Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error
An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play
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March 05, 2024
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Mar'24
Meta outage disrupts social media globally
Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have been downed in a brief service outage
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March 05, 2024
05
Mar'24
Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud
The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027
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March 05, 2024
05
Mar'24
Keepit brings backup and restore to unprotected SaaS applications
SaaS backup specialist keeps data in its own cloud datacentres, protects cloud data across numerous platforms and aims to give customers the ability to rapidly add data sources
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February 26, 2024
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Feb'24
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay
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February 13, 2024
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Feb'24
What will result from Cohesity’s Veritas acquisition?
The $7bn backup giant will leverage huge assets in enterprise customer base, compliance and governance intelligence, AI, R&D, and Kubernetes backup and storage
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January 30, 2024
30
Jan'24
We need backup! Pennsylvania police data loss shows why
Police evidence systems data was lost during ‘routine maintenance’, with human error blamed – the case clearly illustrates why data protection can’t be left to chance
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January 25, 2024
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Jan'24
Datacentres set to consume third of Ireland’s energy by 2026
Forecast data from International Energy Agency shines light on how booming demand for datacentres is affecting energy usage levels in different geographies
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January 24, 2024
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Jan'24
Uptime Institute predicts 2024 will see datacentre operators start row back on net-zero commitments
Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Insitute predicts 2024 will mark the start of a testing time for operators when it comes to delivering on their net-zero commitments
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January 08, 2024
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Jan'24
Datacentre operators form APAC industry group
The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals
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December 18, 2023
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Dec'23
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2023
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2023
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December 14, 2023
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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
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October 24, 2023
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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
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October 11, 2023
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Oct'23
Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees
Pure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models
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September 06, 2023
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Sep'23
Schneider Electric: Business leaders deprioritise green goals due to economic pressure
Research from energy management giant Schneider Electric reveals how events like the 2021 energy crisis have altered the investment priorities of enterprises towards green issues
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August 14, 2023
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Aug'23
US Cyber Board to probe cloud security after latest Exchange hack
CSRB review of cloud security comes in the wake of a major Chinese cyber attack on US government bodies orchestrated through Microsoft’s cloud services
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August 12, 2023
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Aug'23
Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk
At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure
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August 07, 2023
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Aug'23
Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism
Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes
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August 03, 2023
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Aug'23
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’
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June 16, 2023
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Jun'23
CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft
IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard
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May 23, 2023
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May'23
Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware
Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance
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May 10, 2023
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May'23
How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks
Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats
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May 09, 2023
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May'23
OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe
OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans
Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security
Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report
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April 04, 2023
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Apr'23
HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays
HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays
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March 28, 2023
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Mar'23
BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy
BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint
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February 28, 2023
28
Feb'23
LastPass attack saw employee’s home computer hacked
The ongoing investigation into a series of linked security incidents at LastPass has found that the attacker was successfully able to compromise a developer’s home PC using a vulnerability in a media software package
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February 28, 2023
28
Feb'23
Colt DCS starts build-out of renewably powered West London datacentre campus
Hyperscale-focused colocation firm Colt DCS claims project will bring hundreds of jobs to West London
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February 06, 2023
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Feb'23
Ransomware operator turns their fire on two-year-old VMware bug
A vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers that users should have patched in 2021 is now being exploited to spread ransomware
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February 01, 2023
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Feb'23
Cisco fixes two bugs that could have led to supply chain attacks on users
Two vulnerabilities uncovered in Cisco hardware could have opened the door to serious supply chain cyber attacks, according to the Trellix researchers who found them
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February 01, 2023
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Feb'23
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust warned in 2018 about datacentre cooling issues, outage report shows
A review has been published regarding the circumstances that led to two datacentres, hosting healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, overheating during the 2022 summer heatwave
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January 20, 2023
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Jan'23
DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns
Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime
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January 17, 2023
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Jan'23
Exclusion of datacentres from government-backed energy bill discount scheme 'no cause for alarm'
A government-backed scheme to provide power-hungry businesses with discounts on their energy bills does not include datacentres, but industry watchers claim that's not necessarily a bad thing
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December 20, 2022
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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
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December 19, 2022
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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