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Datacentre disaster recovery and security

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• July 04, 2019 04 Jul'19

  Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage resolved, but questions remain over what caused it

  Facebook confirms that technical difficulties blighted its applications and services for several hours on 3 July 2019

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage blights users across the globe

  Social networking users have run into technical difficulties this afternoon when trying to access Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Cloudflare outage: Firm blames global website outage on routine software update gone rogue

  Content delivery provider traces outage back to failings that occurred during a routine update to its web application firewall service

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Growing diversity of datacentre types revealed in latest Vertiv 2025 market predictions study

  Datacentre power specialist’s latest poll on what the industry will look like in 2025 reveals a change in attitude from respondents to powering sites with renewable energy, and shines a light on how its looming skills crisis is developing

• June 07, 2019 07 Jun'19

  Schneider Electric CTO claims AI and cloud could give DCIM market new lease of life

  Kevin Brown tells Datacloud Europe Congress that the datacentre infrastructure management market could be on the cusp of a second coming, buoyed by cloud, big data and artificial intelligence technologies

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators under pressure to embrace sustainability as climate change activism rises

  The rise in climate change activism across the globe means consumers are becoming increasingly likely to vote with their feet and shun brands that do not operate in a sustainable way, and datacentre operators must prepare

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

  Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  Is ‘Brexit effect’ to blame for drop in UK data management investments?

  Research from data backup software supplier Veeam suggests UK C-suite is set to invest much less in data management over the course of the next 12 months than the rest of the world, prompting concerns that Brexit might be to blame

• May 23, 2019 23 May'19

  Amazon rejects calls for ban on sales of facial recognition tech to government agencies

  Annual meeting defeats resolutions for Amazon to halt sales of its Rekognition software to government agencies, and to do more to tackle climate change

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Inward investment into Irish datacentre market set to top €10bn by 2022, research claims

  Latest quarterly market report from Host In Ireland shines a light on how the Irish economy is benefiting from the country’s ongoing development into key European datacentre hub

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  How Lexipol migrated 100 VMs over the wire from VMware to Nutanix

  Using VMotion, risk management firm Lexipol was able to copy its VMware storage pool in California onto Nutanix storage in its new Texas datacentre

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Conclusion of legal row over Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre fuels site takeover hopes

  After four years of planning delays and legal wrangles, Irish Supreme Court dismisses appeal lodged by objectors to the Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Cranfield gets Rubrik backup plus Nutanix in drive to the cloud

  Research-led university goes hyper-converged across the board with Rubrik backup appliances and Nutanix in a move to rationalise on-site physical needs and drive to the cloud

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

  Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  MySpace data loss: Botched server migration prompts user concerns over fate of lost songs

  Social networking forerunner MySpace confirms server migration caused the loss of content uploaded to its site before 2015

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Cloud backup helps ASL Airlines evade ransomware and keep its business flying, says CIO

  ASL Airlines took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2018 Awards after detailing how adopting a robust and resilient disaster recovery strategy is helping it evade ransomware threats

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  AWS and Greenpeace at war over claims cloud giant has ‘turned its back’ on renewable energy pledge

  Amazon Web Services hits back at Greenpeace for suggesting it has 'turned its back' on powering its cloud with renewable energy, as a new report claims its growth could be driving the use of fossil fuels in Virginia

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: Cloud migrations emerge as top investment area for IT decision-makers

  This year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities research shows a growing appetite among UK IT leaders to move more of their IT estate and applications to the cloud

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Google to spend $13bn in 2019 on additional US datacentres and offices

  Search giant Google sets its sights on expanding its presence across the US during 2019 to accommodate the demand for its consumer and enterprise-focused internet and cloud services

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  British Airways settles legal claim with CBRE over May 2017 Bank Holiday datacentre outage

  British Airways confirms its legal proceedings against CBRE have now concluded, on a non-admission of liability basis

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

  The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Virtus plots £500m colocation expansion with five datacentres planned for Slough and Hayes

  Virtus Data Centres is continuing to build out its colocation footprint within the M25, with five facilities set to open during the next two years

• 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

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Danish government in ambitious datacentre push

  Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan

  The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  UK banks under pressure to improve downtime reporting under new FCA rules

  To make it easier for customers to compare and switch between current account providers, UK banks are under pressure to improve their reporting processes for downtime and security incidents

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Infinity SDC sells Here East Olympic Park datacentre to fund development of Romford facility

  The colocation provider continues to scale-back its datacentre footprint in London, with the news it has exited its much-hyped facility in the former Olympic Park in Stratford

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  Frequency and severity of datacentre outages on the rise, Uptime Institute research suggests

  The Uptime Institute’s eighth annual datacentre survey reveals operators across the world are suffering more outages, as the complexity of the environments they manage continues to grow

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme

  Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Virtus Data Centres plots further expansion of Slough colocation site

  Virtus Data Centres is adding three more data halls to its colocation facility in Slough, as well as carrying out a power upgrade at the site

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Hedvig teams up with Veeam to support scale-out backup appliances

  Scale-out software-defined storage supplier reaches agreement with Veeam for backup software to build clusters of nodes with flash, cloud and block, file and object storage access

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

  Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients