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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
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