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• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS VP of engineering on the cloud giant's first major quantum computing push

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used the first day of its annual Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to set out its plans to democratise quantum computing, while also firming up the enterprise use cases for the technology

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts

  Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Digital Realty and Interxion gun for market leader Equinix through colocation mega-merger

  The colocation market is continuing to consolidate, with Digital Realty confirming plans to acquire and merge with Europe's second biggest colocation provider, Interxion

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

  The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Matt Harris, head of IT, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

  The IT chief at the world-leading Formula 1 team is focused on using technology to support and deliver marginal gains in performance for the team’s drivers

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

  Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

  Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

  Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

  Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace

  Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

  Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy