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• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricty grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  UK heatwave linked to ongoing IT systems issues at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  Guy's & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust said it is working ‘around the clock’ to restore the IT systems affected by the extreme temperatures seen in the UK this week

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  UK heatwave sparks cooling system meltdown in Google’s and Oracle’s London datacentre regions

  The extreme heat experienced by the UK this week had a detrimental impact on the cooling systems of two of the cloud world’s biggest players

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

  The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Microsoft to roll out grid-interactive UPS tech to its Dublin datacentre

  Software giant plans to support Ireland’s transition to a carbon-free energy society by making its datacentre’s backup power sources available for use to the country’s national grid

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  UK-based datacentre cooling firm FEL Group ceases trading

  Although its most recent financial report suggested the firm was seeing green shoots of recovery after a business restructure and financing plan, a disagreement on a key contract has resulted in FEL Group going out of business

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  High Court quashes planning permission extension for Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

  After securing additional planning permission for the site of its now-abandoned datacentre build last year, Apple has seen the offer withdrawn by the High Court – which may complicate how it sells the land on

• June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

  Sustainable Norwegian colocation firm Green Mountain expands to the UK with Infinity SDC buyout

  Infinity SDC has sold off its Romford facility to Norwegian colocation player, Green Mountain, whose backers claim the move will change the way other UK-based operators approach sustainability

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Castrol and Submer form partnership to popularise use of immersion cooling in datacentres

  BP-owned Castrol has agreed to work with immersion cooling specialist Submer to bring to market next-generation cooling fluids for use in datacentres

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1

  Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network configuration update error

  Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites inaccessible

• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Cloudflare outage temporarily takes down hundreds of websites

  Downtime incident at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare has wide-reaching consequences for internet service providers

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

  Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming

  Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms

  Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

  Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire

  The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Dublin datacentre operators warned of climate change-related coastal flooding risks

  A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

  Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

  In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

  Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

  The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

  Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market

  As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  British Airways passengers suffer flight delays due to another IT glitch affecting London Heathrow

  Several weeks on from another systems outage that prompted it to cancel hundreds of short-haul flights, British Airways’ IT systems have been hit by another glitch

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

  Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London

  Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Facebook owner Meta plots Spanish datacentre build to power ‘metaverse’ strategy

  Social media giant Meta wants to put Spain at the ‘heart’ of its vision for how the next-generation of the internet will work, with plans to build a datacentre and a remote working hub

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes

  Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities

  Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

  Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’

  Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

  High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

  With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline

  UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Oxford City Council services back online after weekend outage at SCC datacentre

  Council has confirmed its services are back up and running after its datacentre hosting partner suffered a minor outage over the weekend

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS outage: API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub

  One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Schneider Electric gifts the datacentre industry a five-part sustainability framework

  Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: UK IT leaders show preference for cloud-first strategies

  Research suggests firms across the UK and Europe that were quick to pivot to the cloud in response to the pandemic are prioritising investments that will help them make more of their off-premise infrastructure

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change

  Public and private sector organisations need to pool their resources and collaborate to address the climate crisis by using open source technologies, urged Lord Maude during OpenUK’s COP26 event

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

  Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse