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Datacentre disaster recovery and security

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  Brighton and Hove gets ready for Orbis migration

  Brighton and Hove City Council has already moved its co-location servers onto Nutanix nodes. It is now looking at moving its primary Hove datacentre

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

  Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector

• November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions

  Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage

  Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion

  Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Power and space constraints could put brakes on European colocation growth boom, warn experts

  Panellists at DCD>Europe discuss barriers to future growth of Europe's booming colocation market, as concerns about the availability of power and space grow larger

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  International Space Station runs HPE Apollo supercomputer

  The first off-the-shelf supercomputer to run in space, Apollo 40, will be used for local number crunching and artificial intelligence applications

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Datacentre glitches expose data loss risks

  A new study has highlighted the fragility of corporate datacentres and the very real risk of data loss

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute

  Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Amazon and Apple deny claims Chinese government bugged their servers

  Amazon and Apple have publicly refuted a Bloomberg report that claims their servers were tampered with and bugged during the manufacturing process

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Replication won’t protect VMs against ransomware

  Seamless replication is among the benefits of virtualisation, but many organisations fail to back up virtual machines properly

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications

  The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended