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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

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
Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects
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
July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18
CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18
Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services
June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18
Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres
June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18
Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments
June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18
Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data
June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18
Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices
June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18
Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption

June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18
Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator
June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18
Irish government vows to ease planning procedures for datacentre investors

After Apple and Amazon saw their datacentre plans tripped up by the Irish planning system, the government has outlined its commitment to easing the path to construction for other operators
June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18
Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney

Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world
June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18
Visa blames hardware failure for UK-wide card payment system outage

Credit card payment processor moves to assure customers that last Friday afternoon’s downtime was not the work of hackers
May 14, 2018 14 May'18
Inside the rise of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

A blended strategy of building and acquiring datacentres, as well as forming local partnerships, has contributed to the rapid rise of one of the fastest-growing datacentre providers in Asia
April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18
Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm
April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18
TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres

TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth
April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18
Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project
April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18
Facebook settles $365m modular datacentre IP theft case with UK-based BladeRoom Group

BladeRoom and Facebook are known to have reached a confidential settlement in their long-running legal dispute, which saw the social medial giant accused of stealing trade secrets
April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18
Apple claims global operations now run on 100% renewable power

Four years after hitting its 100% renewable power goal in its datacentre estate, consumer electronics giant Apple claims to have replicated the feat across its entire business
April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18
Norway government backs ambitious datacentre investment plan

Norway has a plan to be a leading location for datacentres with a policy that will put it in direct competition with some of its Nordic neighbours
March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18
Putting users first: Making sense of the CCS G-Cloud launch date U-turn

The government's decision to roll back plans to delay the launch of G-Cloud 10 could be detrimental to the future of the framework, it is claimed
March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18
Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres

Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m
March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18
Microsoft Singapore to tap solar energy for datacentre operations

Software giant Microsoft will buy 100% of the renewable energy generated by solar panels installed on rooftops across Singapore to power its datacentre operations
March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18
Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres

As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image
February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18
Colt DCS ramps up renewable power use across European datacentre estate

Carrier neutral datacentre operator Colt DCS claims the technology industry has a "moral duty" to do more than the bare minimum to ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the environment
February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18
FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise
February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18
Cryptocurrency mining consuming more electricity than Iceland’s homes

Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland could use more power than all the households in the country combined
February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18
Beyond Brexit: Can the hyperscalers future-proof the growth of the UK colocation market?

Demand for colocation datacentre space in London is booming, on the back of the hyperscale cloud giants setting up shop in the UK, but will it be enough to safeguard the sector’s growth in the face of Brexit?
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing

The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
Researchers calculate financial toll of cloud outages on US business sector

A joint report by Lloyd's of London and AIR Worldwide reveals the financial disruption a three to six-day cloud outage could cause to US-based businesses
January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18
Kao Data opens doors on first phase of £200m datacentre campus in Harlow

Kao London One has a capacity of 8.8MW and is being touted as a good fit for hybrid cloud infrastructures
January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18
Irish planning chiefs dismiss appeal against Amazon's €1bn datacentre build

Irish planning chiefs have granted Amazon permission to proceed with its plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin to support the continued European growth of its cloud business
January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...
January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18
Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal

Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities
January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18
Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency
December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17
US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets
November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17
Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre
November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17
DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run
November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17
Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors

Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold
October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17
Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub

Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway

Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17
Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system

The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled
July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17
Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres

Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access
June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17
British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?

BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that