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Datacentre disaster recovery and security

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

  Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine

  Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

  The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest

  Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

  A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  UK heatwave linked to ongoing IT systems issues at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  Guy's & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust said it is working ‘around the clock’ to restore the IT systems affected by the extreme temperatures seen in the UK this week

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  UK heatwave sparks cooling system meltdown in Google’s and Oracle’s London datacentre regions

  The extreme heat experienced by the UK this week had a detrimental impact on the cooling systems of two of the cloud world’s biggest players

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre cooling firm FEL Group ceases trading

  Although its most recent financial report suggested the firm was seeing green shoots of recovery after a business restructure and financing plan, a disagreement on a key contract has resulted in FEL Group going out of business

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre liquid cooling firm Iceotope Technologies secures £30m funding

  Sheffield-based datacentre liquid cooling firm wins funding from environment-focused global investment syndicate

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Google Cloud expands availability and scope of IT sustainability tracking tools for enterprises

  The Google Cloud Sustainability Summit sees the public cloud giant ramp up its support for enterprises wanting to minimise the environmental impact of their operations

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network configuration update error

  Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites inaccessible

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  MS Azure Synapse vulnerability fixed after six-month slog

  Microsoft patched a critical Azure Synapse vulnerability twice, but each time the researcher who discovered it was able to bypass it with ease, leading to a lengthy saga

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

  Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms

  Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire

  The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Consultation launched on datacentre, cloud security

  The government is seeking views on how to boost the security and resilience of the UK’s datacentres and online cloud platforms

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Dublin datacentre operators warned of climate change-related coastal flooding risks

  A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance

  The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Datacentres critical to Singapore but sustainability concerns remain

  Datacentres create jobs and contribute S$2bn to Singapore’s economy each year, but sustainability issues will need to be addressed to minimise their environmental impact

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

  In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch

  AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda

  The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market

  As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  British Airways passengers suffer flight delays due to another IT glitch affecting London Heathrow

  Several weeks on from another systems outage that prompted it to cancel hundreds of short-haul flights, British Airways’ IT systems have been hit by another glitch

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

  Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’

  Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Microsoft extends Defender umbrella to Google Cloud Platform

  Redmond says extending Defender for Cloud native capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform will help simplify security for organisations pursuing multicloud strategies by eliminating the gaps where the bad guys can get in

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Linux-based clouds an open door for attackers, says VMware

  Its prevalence as a cloud operating system means Linux is becoming a meal ticket for malicious actors, but the security industry does not seem to have cottoned on to this yet, says VMware

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub

  Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Delayed pay: Umbrella company cyber attacks disrupt salary payments to thousands of contractors

  Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage

  Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Parasol systems outage leaves umbrella contractors facing late payments

  Multi-day outage leaves umbrella company contractors working for payroll processing firm Parasol facing late salary payments, with the firm remaining tight-lipped over the cause of its technical difficulties

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Oxford City Council services back online after weekend outage at SCC datacentre

  Council has confirmed its services are back up and running after its datacentre hosting partner suffered a minor outage over the weekend

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS outage: API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub

  One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again

• 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