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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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 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

• 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

• July 18, 2017 18 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

• 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

• July 05, 2017 05 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 27, 2017 27 Jun'17

  French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

  High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

• June 26, 2017 26 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• June 01, 2017 01 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

• May 30, 2017 30 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

• May 29, 2017 29 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

• May 25, 2017 25 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

• May 11, 2017 11 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

• May 10, 2017 10 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

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure

  Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud

• April 18, 2017 18 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

• April 11, 2017 11 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

• March 13, 2017 13 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

• March 13, 2017 13 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

• February 16, 2017 16 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

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Singapore’s ST Telemedia expands datacentre footprint

  Additional colocation facilities will cement Singapore’s position as a regional datacentre hub

• February 08, 2017 08 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

• February 06, 2017 06 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

• January 24, 2017 24 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

• January 13, 2017 13 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

• January 12, 2017 12 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

• January 05, 2017 05 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

• December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016

  Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East

• December 07, 2016 07 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

• December 07, 2016 07 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

• December 06, 2016 06 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

• 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

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 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

• November 28, 2016 28 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

• November 22, 2016 22 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

• November 22, 2016 22 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

• November 22, 2016 22 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?

• November 18, 2016 18 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• November 01, 2016 01 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

• November 01, 2016 01 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

• October 25, 2016 25 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

• October 19, 2016 19 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

• October 18, 2016 18 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%

• October 17, 2016 17 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

• 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

• October 12, 2016 12 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

• 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

• September 29, 2016 29 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

• September 21, 2016 21 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 30, 2016 30 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Iceland tops list of low-risk datacentre locations

  Europe nabs six out of the top 10 spots in Cushman & Wakefield's list of low-risk locations to build or buy up datacentre capacity

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Brexit: Datacentre investments set to slow as economic stability concerns hit CIOs

  As the economic uncertainty around Brexit continues, CIOs may put new datacentre investments on hiatus, warns analyst

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Equinix embarks on big data push to inform new datacentre designs and builds

  Colocation giant Equinix outlines its plans to use IoT and big data analytics to improve the design of its carrier neutral facilities

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Amazon cloud crash forced Australian enterprises to take heads out of sand

  Enterprises in Australia need to rethink their cloud backup strategies following the recent AWS outage in Sydney

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Singapore to pioneer tropical datacentre

  If successful, trial would prove that datacentres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38°C and humidity of up to, or exceeding, 90%

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Save the Children swaps on-premise migration plan for public cloud

  International charity Save the Children explains why it abandoned plans to shift core IT systems back on-premise to embrace public cloud computing technology

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  Safe Harbour confusion fuels rise in demand for European datacentre space, CBRE claims

  User demand for locally hosted cloud services prompts cloud firms and infrastructure providers to rapidly take-up datacentre space in Europe, CBRE research shows

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  IT Priorities 2016: Server virtualisation is top datacentre infrastructure investment area for CIOs

  The 2016 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests server virtualisation remains the key datacentre investment area for CIOs

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Datacentre operators look to Africa for new co-location growth opportunities

  Data sovereignty concerns and a growing digital economy are fuelling demand for new datacentres in Africa, say analysts and operators

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  Datacentre sector's energy consumption habits "overlooked" by campaigners

  CTO of automation management firm ponders why the energy consumption habits of datacentres are not given the same level of scrutiny as other industries

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia

  The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Nato agency signs five-year datacentre construction deal with Luxembourg MoD

  Nato Support and Procurement Agency embarks on five-year datacentre deal to boost its disaster recovery capabilities

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Lenovo expands x86 server production to Europe

  Chinese hardware manufacturer claims move will result in faster delivery times and lower costs for European customers

• April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16

  Asean CIOs expect IT budget increase in 2016

  IT leaders in the Asean region expect to spend more on IT this year, with big data, mobility and IoT all priorities

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  Mobility tops 2016 priority list for Middle East IT leaders

  Mobility projects will be the most common IT initiative among Middle East organisations this year, according to research from Computer Weekly

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Singapore releases cloud outage guidelines

  The Singapore government releases a set of tiered guidelines for organisations to follow if they have a cloud outage

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Enterprise IT conference comes to the Nordics

  IP Expo is holding an event focused on the Nordic region for the first time as countries such as Sweden and Finland become leaders in enterprise IT

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  BMW Group signs HPC and hosting deal with hydro-powered Swedish datacentre operator

  BMW Group inks deal with green datacentre operator in Sweden

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Falling oil prices and disjointed data protection threaten Middle East datacentres

  A fixation on datacentre ownership and mistrust of third-party services could impede enterprise IT in the Middle East

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

  Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

  Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids