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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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November 16, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 30, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 07, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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August 17, 2017
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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
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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
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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.
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July 31, 2017
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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
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July 25, 2017
25
Jul'17
BP broadens public cloud strategy by adopting Microsoft Azure for data analytics
Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes
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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
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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
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July 18, 2017
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Jul'17
Lack of KPIs shows holes in datacentre efficiency
Most datacentre operators see the benefits of efficiency metrics, but somehow fail to include them in their key performance indicators
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July 10, 2017
10
Jul'17
Apple to build second European datacentre in Denmark later this year
Consumer electronics giant confirms plans to start building a second, renewably-powered datacentre in Denmark during the fourth quarter of 2017
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July 05, 2017
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Jul'17
Equinix expands its European datacentre footprint with AM4 opening in Amsterdam
Colocation giant is building out its datacentre capacity in Amsterdam by opening another facility, geared towards helping enterprises embrace the multi-cloud consumption model
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July 03, 2017
03
Jul'17
H&M reinforces commitment to datacentre heat reuse with 1MW Stockholm datacentre build
The 1MW facility could potentially generate enough heat for 2,500 residential apartments in Stockholm when completed in 2018
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July 03, 2017
03
Jul'17
Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours
Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations
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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
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June 27, 2017
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Jun'17
French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres
High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation
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June 26, 2017
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Jun'17
Dubai-based logistics company automates backup through cloud
Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML
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June 22, 2017
22
Jun'17
Case study: Future Facilities trials VR to pinpoint datacentre performance problems
Datacentre performance simulation software provider Future Facilities opens up about its virtual reality trials, and how the technology could change the way the entire industry operates
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June 14, 2017
14
Jun'17
Lancaster University begins datacentre research to establish cloud latency causes
Researchers, in collaboration with Microsoft and others, want to stamp out data processing delays in datacentres to improve user experience and energy efficiency
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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
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June 06, 2017
06
Jun'17
Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal
About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement
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June 02, 2017
02
Jun'17
Telefónica increases use of renewable energy to fight climate change
Telecoms operator behind UK’s O2 mobile network doubles down on existing commitments to renewable energy sources in the fight against climate change
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June 01, 2017
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Jun'17
British Airways confirms investigation under way into bank holiday datacentre power failure
Airline says investigation will focus on ensuring the IT problems of the bank holiday weekend will never be repeated
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May 30, 2017
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May'17
Construction of Amazon's €1bn Dublin datacentre hit by environmental planning appeal
Amazon's plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin from mid-2017 could be delayed by environmental planning appeal
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May 29, 2017
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May'17
Huawei, Keppel team up on AI-powered datacentres
Huawei and Keppel test the use of artificial intelligence to improve datacentre operations and energy efficiency at a reference site in Singapore
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May 25, 2017
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May'17
Open19: LinkedIn's bid to lower barriers to open source datacentre tech adoption gathers pace
The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience
The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance
The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 18, 2017
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Apr'17
Virtus Data Centres plots to expand Slough colocation footprint
Colocation provider sets out plans to expand its datacentre footprint in Slough, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows
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April 11, 2017
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Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies
The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
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March 13, 2017
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Mar'17
Powering the cloud: Unlocking the secrets of Google datacentres
At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the internet search giant opened up about how it secures, operates and stress-tests its growing cloud datacentre fleet
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March 13, 2017
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Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal
Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union
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February 16, 2017
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Feb'17
Cisco sales fall as traditional product sales slump
Cisco's traditional product sales such as switches are falling, but revenues in emerging products in areas such as security are on the up
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February 16, 2017
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Feb'17
Singapore’s ST Telemedia expands datacentre footprint
Additional colocation facilities will cement Singapore’s position as a regional datacentre hub
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February 08, 2017
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Feb'17
British Gas calls on datacentre operators to help solve UK's looming energy supply crisis
British Gas makes the case for datacentre operators to do their bit to close the UK energy supply and demand gap by hooking up their backup power supplies to the National Grid
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February 06, 2017
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Feb'17
Dutch businesses have heads in the cloud
In the Netherlands, cloud computing is used by the central bank, large multinationals like Unilever, startups such as WeTransfer, and even a Dutch potato processing plant in China
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January 24, 2017
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Jan'17
Stockholm offers sustainable datacentre safe haven to hyperscale cloud firms
Sweden's capital city looks to capitalise on recent country-wide tax breaks for datacentre operators, to encourage cloud and colocation firms to set up shop in its new environmentally-friendly business parks
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January 13, 2017
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Jan'17
Demand for datacentres in "edge" countries tipped to fuel next wave of colocation M&A
451 Research predicts developing countries will be the source of increased colocation market revenue in the years to come, and fuel a fresh wave of takeovers
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January 12, 2017
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Jan'17
Greenpeace demands greater transparency from AWS over datacentre energy use habits
Greenpeace claims the cloud and internet service provider community is improving on sustainability, but AWS could afford to do more
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January 05, 2017
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Jan'17
HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems
The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations
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December 29, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2016
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2016
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December 21, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016
Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East
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December 07, 2016
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Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Quarter of Apac CIOs expect IT budget to rise by more than 10%
More than half of Apac-based IT decision-makers expect budgets to rise next year and cloud-related projects look the likely destination of the extra money
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December 07, 2016
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Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Hybrid cloud set to dominate datacentre infrastructure buying decisions
The 2017 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests the next 12 months will see enterprise IT buyers move to increase the hybrid-readiness of their datacentre facilities
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December 06, 2016
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Dec'16
Google to hit 100% renewable energy target for datacentres in 2017
Google claims to be on course to hit its 100% renewable energy pledge in 2017 by ramping up its acquisition of green power sources
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December 06, 2016
06
Dec'16
Equinix to acquire 29 datacentres from Verizon for $3.6bn
Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquisition trail once more, as it continues on its quest to expand its global datacentre footprint
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December 05, 2016
05
Dec'16
Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016
The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016
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December 01, 2016
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Dec'16
AWS to hit halfway point on 100% green datacentre pledge by end of 2017
Amazon Web Services opens up about the progress it is making with ramping up the amount of renewable energy its datacentres consume
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November 28, 2016
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Nov'16
Metro fibre dig backs new Newcastle datacentre build
Newcastle campus datacentre owner supports the connectivity needs of local businesses as well as cloud customers
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November 22, 2016
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Nov'16
Alibaba brings public cloud to the Middle East
Alibaba has opened a datacentre in Dubai to attract businesses in the Middle East to its public cloud services
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November 22, 2016
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Nov'16
Alibaba to open datacentre in Australia
Alibaba Cloud will open a datacentre in Sydney by the end of 2016 as part of its global expansion
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November 22, 2016
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Nov'16
Using AI to cut humans out of the datacentre sustainability equation
As the idea of using artificial intelligence to reduce energy use by datacentres gathers momentum, does this spell the end of human intervention on sustainability matters?
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November 18, 2016
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Nov'16
T-Systems talks up post-Brexit benefits of new UK datacentre
IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom opens UK datacentre to help enterprises grappling with private cloud and SAP migrations
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November 07, 2016
07
Nov'16
The transformation of Randstad’s IT infrastructure
Digitisation is one of the key themes in Randstad's latest financial report, with the transformation of its IT infrastructure a fundamental step in achieving this
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November 07, 2016
07
Nov'16
Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms
Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges
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November 04, 2016
04
Nov'16
CenturyLink sells datacentre portfolio to private equity consortium
Telco brings an end to months of speculation about its datacentre plans by confirming it has reached a deal to offload 57 sites to BC Partners
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November 04, 2016
04
Nov'16
Datacentre industry faces looming skills crisis as need to replace retiring engineers grows
With new figures suggesting the average datacentre worker is 55 years old and male, the industry opens up about what needs to be done to secure a pipeline of new talent to replace those approaching retirement age
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November 01, 2016
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Nov'16
Microsoft debuts Project Olympus to boost open source datacentre hardware development
Microsoft wants to give open source datacentre hardware developers earlier access to its designs to speed up the time it takes to bring new products to market with Project Olympus
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November 01, 2016
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Nov'16
Lancaster University hails potential of AI software to cut datacentre power consumption
Lancaster University reveals details of its work to create an AI-based, self-assembling software system that could improve the efficiency of datacentres
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October 25, 2016
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Oct'16
AI set to replace traditional IT administrators
Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms
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October 19, 2016
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Oct'16
Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school
Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
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October 18, 2016
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Oct'16
Malaysia upgrades internet exchange to cope with increased traffic
Country’s peak internet data hit all-time record in August, equating to year-on-year growth of 57%
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October 17, 2016
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Oct'16
SSP Worldwide customers call for revised compensation offer for two-week cloud outage
Insurance brokers urge software house to rethink rebates, in light of the financial toll prolonged cloud outage has taken on their businesses
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October 14, 2016
14
Oct'16
VMware and AWS joint venture to help enterprises manage multi-cloud environments
Virtualisation giant VMware reinforces its commitment to helping enterprises manage multi-cloud deployments with AWS partnership
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October 12, 2016
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Oct'16
Verizon and CenturyLink close to colocation datacentre sell-offs, say reports
Reports suggest both CenturyLink and Verizon could be on the cusp of off-loading their colocation assets, after months of speculation
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October 04, 2016
04
Oct'16
Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2016: Shortlist announced
Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, which is set to take place on Wednesday 19 October 2016 at VMworld, Barcelona
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September 29, 2016
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Sep'16
Microsoft’s grand plan aims to make big data intelligence accessible to all
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to democratise access to big data intelligence across the enterprise through the use of cloud, machine learning and new datacentre chip technologies
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September 21, 2016
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Sep'16
IBM opens first Nordic cloud datacentre
Oslo datacentre is IBM’s 12th in Europe and 48th globally and will target large and small enterprises and startups to offer services
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September 16, 2016
16
Sep'16
Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments
OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding
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September 16, 2016
16
Sep'16
Google sets out plans to stop its datacentre waste going to landfill
Internet giant claims six out of 14 of its global datacentres no longer send any waste to landfill, as a result of its efforts
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September 15, 2016
15
Sep'16
SSP customer pays £6.5m to exit IT platform contract with insurance software firm early
CPPGroup has decided to replace SSP's technology with a platform based on its existing systems, at a cost of more than £6.5m
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September 13, 2016
13
Sep'16
Dubai Culture modernises its datacentre
Organisation that brings Dubai’s cultural heritage to life has implemented the latest technologies to support its mission
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August 30, 2016
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Aug'16
UAE infrastructure ministry upgrades IT to support smart government
The UAE's Ministry of Infrastructure Development has upgraded its datacentre and networking infrastructure to support the government's smart services drive
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August 26, 2016
26
Aug'16
Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn
After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer
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August 15, 2016
15
Aug'16
Robot Wars: Team Storm uses modern IT to breathe new life into legacy machines
Robot Wars’ Team Storm is applying the principles of DevOps, IoT and real-time data analytics in advancing the design of its machine, while setting out to inspire a new generation to get into robotics
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August 05, 2016
05
Aug'16
Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report
Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company
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August 02, 2016
02
Aug'16
White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017
US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments
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July 27, 2016
27
Jul'16
European scientific community seeks support for €5.3m hybrid cloud build
Research organisations from across Europe want to build a hybrid cloud platform to support their HPC and big data projects
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July 21, 2016
21
Jul'16
Almost half of UK's largest councils lack cloud strategy, Eduserv FOI study reveals
Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology
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July 21, 2016
21
Jul'16
Gartner offers insights into how cloud is disrupting traditional IT spending habits
Market watcher shines a light on how the adoption of off-premise technologies is shaking up enterprise IT spending trends
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July 19, 2016
19
Jul'16
The Green Grid rolls out datacentre efficiency metric to clampdown on PUE misuse
Datacentre efficiency consortium The Green Grid plans to introduce a metric to drive up the accuracy of facility performance measurements during downtime and normal operating conditions