News
Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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January 02, 2015
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Jan'15
Case study: How DER Deutsches Reisebüro GmbH & Co OHG won two VMworld Europe User awards
Best desktop virtualisation project winner of the VMworld Europe User Awards 2014, DER Deutsches Reisebüro, shares why it won
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December 30, 2014
30
Dec'14
Case study: How VMware’s vCloud meets customer needs
Cloud innovation winner of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for datacentre/storage 2014, VMware, shares its story
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December 29, 2014
29
Dec'14
Case study: Virtus’s second London datacentre delivers innovative efficiency
Best technology innovation winner in the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014, Virtus, shares its story
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December 22, 2014
22
Dec'14
Procserve partners with CenturyLink to meet government requirements
Procserve, the public sector winner of the 2014 Datacentre/Storage prize at Computer Weekly's European User Awards, shares its story
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December 19, 2014
19
Dec'14
Case study: Sky News turns to Red Hat for IT upgrade
To ensure the resiliency of its operations, Sky News has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Red Hat Satellite in two datacentres
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December 02, 2014
02
Dec'14
Ministry of Defence consolidates with green datacentre
The MoD is aiming to reduce its IT carbon footprint with the construction of a new datacentre to replace the existing host site in Bath
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November 20, 2014
20
Nov'14
IT at Coca-Cola Enterprises attains low-energy accreditation
The IT department at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has completed Stage 3 of the Low Energy Company accreditation
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November 20, 2014
20
Nov'14
BSkyB turns to DCIM to reduce carbon footprint and maximise service uptime
BSkyB replaces its legacy datacentre management software with Schneider Electric’s DCIM suite to save time and energy
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
HDS takes a stab at managed service provider market
HDS announces Hitachi Cloud Compute-as-a-Service and updates Unified Compute Platform
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November 03, 2014
03
Nov'14
Citibank embarks on £5.2m project to make London datacentre energy-efficient
Citi is putting in place new energy efficiency measures to cut power use by 10% at its London datacentre with backing from the Green Investment Bank
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October 28, 2014
28
Oct'14
Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy
Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner
Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses
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October 14, 2014
14
Oct'14
SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud
SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform
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September 29, 2014
29
Sep'14
ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers
ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers
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September 26, 2014
26
Sep'14
Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C
Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3
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September 22, 2014
22
Sep'14
Digital Realty’s €150m Dublin datacentre goes live
Digital Realty Trust has opened a €150m datacentre in Dublin as part of plans to develop 15.36MW of datacentre space
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September 17, 2014
17
Sep'14
Gas company builds datacentre in The Shard
London’s 87-storey skyscraper, The Shard, which is home to plush restaurants, cafes and bars, also has a datacentre
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September 10, 2014
10
Sep'14
Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users
Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources
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September 08, 2014
08
Sep'14
Intel launches Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors
Intel has launched Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (codenamed Haswell-EP) designed for the software defined infrastructure
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August 25, 2014
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Aug'14
Progress on datacentre energy efficiency is slow, study shows
Small, medium, corporate and multi-tenant datacentres are still squandering huge amounts of energy, a report has revealed
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August 22, 2014
22
Aug'14
Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage: 2014 winners
The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage 2014 have been announced
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August 20, 2014
20
Aug'14
Datacentres are a ‘soft target’ for environmental lobbyists, says CBRE
Lack of clear international standards for datacentres is allowing environmental groups to criticise the sector for its energy use
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August 12, 2014
12
Aug'14
Facebook optimises software infrastructure for datacentre power efficiency
Facebook has developed a system called Autoscale to optimise its software infrastructure and make its datacentre more energy efficient
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August 04, 2014
04
Aug'14
US judge rules for Microsoft to release Irish email data
A judge in the US district court has ruled against Microsoft, in its attempt to stop a US government search warrant over emails stored in Ireland.
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July 31, 2014
31
Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre
Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
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July 18, 2014
18
Jul'14
Government tenders for £700m Crown Hosting Service deal
The government has put out a tender to procure infrastructure for a Crown Hosting Service, which will consolidate hosting services across Whitehall departments.
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July 17, 2014
17
Jul'14
Facebook carbon footprint grows but energy-efficiency metric glows
Facebook’s carbon footprint report shows energy-efficiency metric for all-important datacentres comfortably outperforms gold-standard figure and set to get better
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July 16, 2014
16
Jul'14
Microsoft signs 20-year wind energy deal to power datacentres
Microsoft has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind energy with EDF Renewable Energy – its “largest wind investment to date”
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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July 02, 2014
02
Jul'14
UK government recognises datacentre sector as a key economic contributor
UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs
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July 01, 2014
01
Jul'14
Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat
Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms
Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
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May 29, 2014
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May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Google AI improves datacentre energy efficiency
Artificial intelligence helps Google improve datacentre energy efficiency
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May 15, 2014
15
May'14
Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects
Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency
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May 09, 2014
09
May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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May 08, 2014
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May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres
Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
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May 06, 2014
06
May'14
Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS
Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research
Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025
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April 24, 2014
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Apr'14
Modular datacentres yield 30% more savings than traditional datacentres
A comparison of the total cost of ownership of two datacentre architectures – traditional facility and the modular datacentre reveals which one is cheaper
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April 23, 2014
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Apr'14
Google’s renewable energy purchase for datacentres soars over 1GW
Google's latest agreement with MidAmerican Energy to power its Iowa datacentre with 407MW of wind energy takes its renewable energy deals to 1GW
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April 22, 2014
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Apr'14
Microsoft invests in next-gen energy technologies to power datacentres
Microsoft is investing in next-generation energy technologies such as microturbines and distributed generation for datacentre power
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April 16, 2014
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Apr'14
Scotland will be home to UK’s first fully green datacentre
Come summer and work will start on a £40m green datacentre covering 75,000 sq ft at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes, Fife
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April 15, 2014
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Apr'14
Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency
Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
Mainframe can help businesses meet mobile challenges, says IBM
A 50th anniversary of mainframe event in New York reveals the future for the technology
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April 08, 2014
08
Apr'14
UK cloud pioneer scores world first with true utility pricing
ElasticHosts steals a march on Google, Amazon and Microsoft by billing on the basis of actual consumption of resources
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April 07, 2014
07
Apr'14
The problem with regional clouds
The clamour to keep clouds closer to home could lead to internet restrictions, fragmentation and a slowdown in the movement of data
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil
How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions
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March 31, 2014
31
Mar'14
Case study: Alquist uses Celsius to decrease energy consumption
Alquist, winner of the Best Technology Innovation in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking, shares its winning case study
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts
Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?
The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity
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March 21, 2014
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Mar'14
EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency
GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands
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March 19, 2014
19
Mar'14
Budget 2014 – what it means for UK IT
Chancellor George Osborne has announced his 2014 Budget. These are the highlights and opportunities spotted by Computer Weekly
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court
University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 13, 2014
13
Mar'14
CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds
The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications
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March 11, 2014
11
Mar'14
London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres
How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres
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March 04, 2014
04
Mar'14
Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling
Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise
Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers
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February 26, 2014
26
Feb'14
Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service
Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success
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February 25, 2014
25
Feb'14
Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era
IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true
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February 24, 2014
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Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 21, 2014
21
Feb'14
Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth
Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly
Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul
The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits
Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
AMD and ARM rewrite datacentre computing
AMD has collaborated with ARM on a chip architecture system to lower the energy envelope of server-based computing
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 04, 2014
04
Feb'14
Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike
How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse
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January 31, 2014
31
Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard
Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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January 23, 2014
23
Jan'14
Can elephants dance in the cloud?
IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully
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January 20, 2014
20
Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push
New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
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January 17, 2014
17
Jan'14
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs
NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals
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January 16, 2014
16
Jan'14
Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup
Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe
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January 14, 2014
14
Jan'14
Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises
New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium
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January 13, 2014
13
Jan'14
Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold
A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace
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January 09, 2014
09
Jan'14
UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe
Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts
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December 31, 2013
31
Dec'13
Top 10 premium content articles of 2013
Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013
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December 28, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013
The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year
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December 23, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013
It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...
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December 11, 2013
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Dec'13
Can HP Moonshot deliver blue-sky energy management in datacentres?
New servers that have more in common with laptops than datacentre hardware are being developed to tackle the energy time bomb
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December 06, 2013
06
Dec'13
Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement
George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements
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December 03, 2013
03
Dec'13
Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre
Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment
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December 02, 2013
02
Dec'13
Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits
Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months
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November 29, 2013
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Nov'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries
Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here
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November 26, 2013
26
Nov'13
How web giants are making datacentres lean and green
Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London
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November 20, 2013
20
Nov'13
Nordics push to become European datacentre hub
Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?
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November 19, 2013
19
Nov'13
Case study: Leeds University warms to liquid cooling
Award-winning Iceotope technology proves energy-saving credentials and powers Leeds University’s HPC project
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November 08, 2013
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Nov'13
University of Aberdeen - North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre
North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre has won the public sector project prize in Computer Weekly's European Datacentre Awards
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October 29, 2013
29
Oct'13
Uncertain energy policies crippling UK datacentre industry’s future
Uncertainty on energy policies could cause potential investors in the UK’s datacentre industry to look abroad instead, experts warn
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October 28, 2013
28
Oct'13
Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider
Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper
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October 23, 2013
23
Oct'13
Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner
Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner
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October 22, 2013
22
Oct'13
Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid
Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency
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October 17, 2013
17
Oct'13
Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards: Winners
The Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards have been announced at a ceremony VMworld Europe in Barcelona. See who made the top spots
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October 11, 2013
11
Oct'13
Orange builds datacentre in Normandy to boost cloud services
Telecoms operator Orange, has built a 16,000m² datacentre facility in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy