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• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Poundland launches e-commerce Christmas push with Rackspace managed support

  Budget retailer has turned to Rackspace to ensure its first foray into online retail can withstand the seasonal rush

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Datacentre operators must "open up" to close industry skills gap, claims IO

  IO business development director Andrew Roughan said more must be done to encourage a wider range and higher number people into the datacentre industry

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth

  The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Infinity SDC sells Slough datacentre assets to rival Virtus

  Virtus expands greater London datacentre portfolio by purchasing rival's colocation facility in Slough

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Microsoft steps up efforts to clarify cloud security and privacy policy

  Microsoft debuts merged security information hub to make it easier for cloud users to find out more about the privacy and security policies of its hosted products

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre

  Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Traditional datacentres ill-equipped to cope with IoT demands, warn technology experts

  BBC data scientist and Coca Cola CTO question if the datacentre is the right place to store, process and analyse IoT data

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing

  Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Middlesex University embarks on mass datacentre migration with Exponential-e

  Middlesex University has had enough of owning and running its own hardware, and looks to Exponential-e to help shift its datacentre assets

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  RSA Group flags ID theft risk to Lloyds Bank customers following datacentre storage theft

  International insurance group has seen 500 customers take up offer of identity theft protection in wake of datacentre theft

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  UK CIOs lament lack of IT support for cloud services

  Research from ElasticHosts suggests most cloud users are unhappy with the level of tech support they receive from their providers

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  William Hill kicks off football season with blast from the past

  A mathematical programming concept that dates back a decade before the world’s first electronic computer is proving itself in the era of web-scale computing

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

  While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud

  EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions

  Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

  From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region

• 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

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making

  Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

  EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Datacentre operator Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin resigns

  Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin will step down from the helm at the FTSE 250 datacentre provider on 31 October, after 10 years in the role

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

  Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices

  Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs

• 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

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• May 29, 2014 29 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

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours

  Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services

  The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365

• 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

• 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

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

  On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• February 24, 2014 24 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• 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

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Study finds cloud computing the most valued enterprise IT skill

  Cloud computing overtakes virtualisation, security, BI, database and project management as the most valued enterprise IT skill

• 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

• October 07, 2013 07 Oct'13

  Driving Standards Agency updates WAN with MDNX

  The government agency has revamped its WAN solution to link its datacentre through the PSN network to its driving test centres across the UK

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Cloud computing drives infrastructure upgrade at service provider

  IT services company Ardenta has implemented F5 network security to upgrade its infrastructure and offer cloud services

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Bet365 improves latency and peering by updating network infrastructure

  Online gambling site Bet365 upgraded its network and improved its latency to deliver a fast, smooth and reliable experience to its customers

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient