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• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Datacentres denied: West London server farm dispute prompts calls for UK planning system reform

  The government is under fire after dismissing a datacentre development in west London despite soaring demand for capacity - but how can we balance new development with protecting the UK’s green spaces?

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud

  Australian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  Google saves almost $3bn by running servers for six years

  Extending the life of its datacentre servers and network equipment has led to significant savings over the past nine months for Google

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Rishi Sunak under fire from UK tech stakeholders over revision of net-zero policies

  The prime minister has seen his decision to tweak and revise several policies that underpin the UK's net-zero goals criticised for potentially stunting the growth of the clean tech sector

• September 08, 2023 08 Sep'23

  Executive interview: Richard Moulds, Amazon Braket

  We speak to Richard Moulds, who heads up Amazon’s Braket quantum computing services, about how the technology is progressing

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Node4 helps performing arts charity revamp staff home working setup with IT infrastructure overhaul

  Managed cloud services provider Node4 opens up about the work it has done to help make it easier for one of its long-standing clients to embrace remote working

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  Schneider Electric: Business leaders deprioritise green goals due to economic pressure

  Research from energy management giant Schneider Electric reveals how events like the 2021 energy crisis have altered the investment priorities of enterprises towards green issues

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  Colocation market ready to cash in on rising interest in enterprise AI

  IT market watcher Omdia has tipped the colocation market to be one of the main beneficiaries of the growing demand for enterprise AI services

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  CBRE forecasts rise in European colocation capacity in H2 despite power supply constraints

  Real estate consultancy CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker report suggests the second half of 2023 will be a big one in terms of supply and take-up of datacentre capacity

• August 12, 2023 12 Aug'23

  Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk

  At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

  Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

  The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps

  The latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl

  Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

  Datacentre cross-sector collaboration needed to boost heat reuse rates, report claims

  Report by datacentre consultancy BCS looks at what needs to be done to encourage more operators to reuse waste heat from their server farms

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s

  The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

  HPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

  SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  Mobile operator Three cuts datacentre cooling energy usage through EkkoSense deployment

  Mobile operator Three enlisted the help of EkkoSense to reduce the amount of energy used to cool four of its legacy datacentres as part of a cost- and carbon-cutting initiative

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Colt DCS starts build-out of renewably powered West London datacentre campus

  Hyperscale-focused colocation firm Colt DCS claims project will bring hundreds of jobs to West London

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Government’s revised net-zero strategy could put public sector under more pressure to move to cloud

  With the UK government due to publish its revised net-zero strategy in the coming weeks, the public sector is being warned it could see itself under more pressure to move to cloud

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022

  As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’

  Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  US hyperscale datacentre operator completes first phase of nuclear-powered server farm campus

  US-based Cumulus Data has completed the powered shell infrastructure of its datacentre campus, which will be directly fed nuclear power from a neighbouring plant

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  Exclusion of datacentres from government-backed energy bill discount scheme 'no cause for alarm'

  A government-backed scheme to provide power-hungry businesses with discounts on their energy bills does not include datacentres, but industry watchers claim that's not necessarily a bad thing

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2022

  The energy crisis has wreaked havoc on the UK datacentre market in various ways this year, with supply and pricing issues blighting operators and their business interests

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Italy’s biggest datacentre campus to enjoy €500m growth spurt

  Aruba SpA raises funding to help realise ambitions to further grow mega-datacentre campus in Italy

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS pledges to become a water-positive entity by 2030

  Amazon Web Services has marked the first day of its Re:Invent partner and customer conference by going public with its pledge to become a water-positive entity

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

  French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

  Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Castrol to open datacentre immersion cooling test facility at Berkshire HQ

  BP-owned lubricant brand has unveiled the next phase in its work to accelerate adoption of immersion cooling technologies in datacentres

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud

  Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'

  The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

  The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

  A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  US remains favoured datacentre location for world’s hyperscale cloud and internet giants

  Data released by Synergy Research Group confirms thatr the US remains the favoured location for hyperscale datacentres, but the analyst house predicts this could change in the years to come

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity 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