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• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Digital Realty and Equinix drive bulk of colocation market M&A activity in 2018, research shows

  Latest review of datacentre market mergers and acquisitions reveals uptick in deal volumes, with colocation giants Digital Realty and Equinix leading the way

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Global hyperscale datacentre growth boom set to continue into 2019, Synergy Research shows

  Synergy Research Group's global datacentre market performance tracker reveals which suppliers built the most new server farms in 2018, and where

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief

  A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

  Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

  Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declares Oracle data warehouse switch-off as 2018 work highlight

  During the closing keynote at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the CTO of the cloud giant's parent company opened up about the career highs and lows of working for Amazon.com

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Amazon brings public cloud services to enterprise datacentres with AWS Outposts

  AWS builds out hybrid cloud play by offering enterprises access to its public cloud services in private datacentres, hosted on the same hardware its own facilities use

• November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions

  Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage

  Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

  A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion

  Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Power and space constraints could put brakes on European colocation growth boom, warn experts

  Panellists at DCD>Europe discuss barriers to future growth of Europe's booming colocation market, as concerns about the availability of power and space grow larger

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London