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February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19
Legal & General Capital ploughs investment into Kao Data’s Essex-based datacentre campus

Financial services giant’s investment arm embarks on sizeable investment to support the continued expansion of Kao Data's colocation campus in Harlow
February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19
T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh

The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has culled the number of datacentres it operates from 89 to 13, but claims to have seen its compute capacity increase by 25%
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 04, 2019 04 Jan'19
Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief

A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre

December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18
Defra unveils green government tech vision

Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover
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
December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18
Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019
November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declares Oracle data warehouse switch-off as 2018 work highlight

During the closing keynote at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the CTO of the cloud giant's parent company opened up about the career highs and lows of working for Amazon.com
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 21, 2018 21 Nov'18
Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...
November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18
Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers
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
VMware readies green blockchain

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says the power used for blockchain computation will cause an environmental crisis
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
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 02, 2018 02 Oct'18
Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening

The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology
September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18
EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC
September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18
Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware
September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18
Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia

The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy
September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18
Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore

The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub
August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18
Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs

The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows
August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18
EduServ confirms fallout from datacentre power outage is being resolved

Public sector-focused IT provider EduServ suffers datacentre power outage that takes client websites and online services offline
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 20, 2018 20 Aug'18
Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency

Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs
August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18
Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes

Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo
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 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
August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18
Google to build third datacentre in Singapore

The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017
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 20, 2017 20 Dec'17
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2017

Over the course of 2017, we saw hyperscale cloud giants continuing to invest in their UK presence, as well as Apple’s ongoing planning permission delays in Ireland and the disruption caused by the datacentre downtime from British Airways
December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17
Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants
December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
December 15, 2017 15 Dec'17
AMD hits pay dirt in the cloud with EPYC server platform

Chipmaker AMD is looking to regain lost ground with its EPYC server platform, and it seems the cloud provider community is getting on board with its plans
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
December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels urges enterprises to get their encryption act together

During the closing keynote of AWS Re:Invent 2017, Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, warned enterprises of the perils of overlooking encryption
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 21, 2017 21 Nov'17
HPE hails progress in using AI to build autonomous datacentres

Hardware giant claims to be the first in the industry to bring artificial intelligence-based infrastructure management software to market that can predict datacentre problems before humans can
November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17
Budget 2017: TechUK demands datacentre energy reform to stop post-Brexit market slump

TechUK airs fears over long-term growth and prosperity of UK datacentre market post-Brexit, without urgent government help on rising energy costs
November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17
AI is playing an ‘extremely important’ role in hybrid cloud, says Nutanix

Artificial intelligence is a key factor in hybrid cloud because it provides better manageability of large amounts of data, Nutanix conference told
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 07, 2017 07 Nov'17
OpenStack flags edge computing as ‘surprise’ emerging use case for open source cloud tech

OpenStack Foundation executive director, Jonathan Bryce, admits to being caught on the back-foot by the growing number of enterprises using its software to build edge computing environments
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 24, 2017 24 Oct'17
IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world

As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own
October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17
A tenth of datacentre managers shun use of DCIM tools, survey finds

The findings of a new report by Siemens and Intel suggests datacentre managers are taking a reactive approach to keeping on monitoring and managing the health of their infrastructure
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
October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17
Apple wins Irish court backing for €850m datacentre in Athenry

After more than two years of planning delays and appeals, the Irish court has quashed two legal challenges to Apple’s plan to build a datacentre in the west Ireland town of Athenry
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment

Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre
October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17
Italian cloud provider banks on Brexit to fill country’s largest datacentre campus

Campus will be powered by on-site renewable energy sources as Aruba sets sights on securing tenants displaced by the UK’s EU departure
October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17
Brother moves core internal applications to Amazon cloud

Manufacturer Brother has moved its back-office and customer-facing systems to the Amazon cloud using public and hybrid models
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Virtus sets out plans to build London’s largest datacentre campus

Colocation provider outlines the next phase of its expansion plans, which will see it build out its presence in west London
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Outcome of Amazon Irish datacentre planning appeal potentially delayed until November

Amazon faces having to wait up to two months to hear the outcome of an environmental appeal against its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin
September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17
Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays

Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report

New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff
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
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017
August 18, 2017 18 Aug'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Awards nominations now open until 31 August

Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
Facebook sets out plans to open 10th datacentre by 2019

Social media giant to build new datacentre in New Albany, Ohio, to future-proof its infrastructure in the face of growing user demand
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
August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17
British Airways online check-in systems hit by another IT failure

Passengers complain of queues, delays and flight cancellations after airline's check-in systems suffer temporary outage.
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