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• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows

  Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  SSE Renewables teams up with Microsoft for AI-led puffin conservation project on Isle of May

  Green energy provider talks up the potential for artificial intelligence technology to help speed up the time it takes to bring new supplies of renewable power onto the grid

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Linode commits to NVMe storage infrastructure upgrade across its global datacentre portfolio

  Alternative public cloud service provider Linode has commited to revamping the storage infrastructure across its 11 datacentres, which include sites in the US, UK and Germany

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Hyperscale cloud giants look to pick up the pace of self-built datacentres in London

  Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker data from DC Byte and Knight Frank suggests a shift in investment priorities for the hyperscale cloud giants could be on the cards

• September 20, 2021 20 Sep'21

  ASEAN organisations face observability gap

  Organisations in Southeast Asia are grappling with a hodgepodge of observability tools and have some way to go before they can achieve full visibility over their technology stacks

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance

  Following its meteoric rise to social media prominence, TikTok’s parent company is confirmed as being the world’s seventh-biggest datacentre spender after just three years of expansion

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators

  With the water usage habits of datacentres coming under increased scrutiny, research from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute highlights shortcomings in the sector's reporting of how much water facilities use

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030

  Google is the latest tech giant to go public with its commitment to becoming a water-positive entity

• September 01, 2021 01 Sep'21

  NTT Group to grow global datacentre footprint by 20% over next 18 months

  Carrier-neutral colocation giant has set out plans that will see it continue to add datacentre capacity across all of the major markets it operates in

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  The Raxio Group sets out Pan-African colocation datacentre expansion plans

  Pan-African datacentre developer The Raxio Group has embarked on a collaboration that will pave the way for it to increase its colocation footprint within the continent

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  HPE-Microsoft supercomputing collaboration on ISS speeds research into space travel health impacts

  Several months on from the deployment of a microwave-sized supercomputer on the International Space Station, details of the research it's powering have started to emerge

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Norway’s government steps up efforts to court overseas datacentre investors and developers

  The Norwegian government is making a concerted push to attract more foreign investment into its datacentre sector by talking up the country’s green credentials

• August 09, 2021 09 Aug'21

  Alliance formed to build modular power-hungry HPC datacentres in energy surplus regions

  Green datacentre company Cloud&Heat Technologies has formed an alliance with Earth Wind & Power that will see the pair seek to build scalable, modular datacentres in areas where utility firms are producing surplus energy

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Research points to growing importance of secondary datacentre hubs across Europe in years to come

  Datacentrepricing’s half-year look at the growth of the European datacentre market reinforces the rising importance of secondary datacentre hubs across the continent

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers

  TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  Kao Data claims UK first with push to ditch diesel for biofuel in datacentre backup generators

  Harlow-based colocation player claims its on course to become the first datacentre operator in the UK to ditch diesel in favour of biofuel in its backup power generators

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Virgin Media outage: Electrical explosion takes down network in south-east London

  Underground electrical network explosion causes ‘significant collateral damage’ to cabling infrastructure, with users in south-east London told to brace themselves for ‘at least’ 24 hours of disruption

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021

  Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live

  The UK's most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Manutan claws back 25% of storage admin time in switch to Pure

  Industrial and office supply giant needed to replace 3Par arrays then made a rapid switch to Pure Storage FlashArray flash storage when the ageing HPE hardware crashed during POC

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out

  Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water

  Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service

  Extreme Networks will draw on Microsoft Azure's UK datacentre region to provide its customers with locally hosted versions of its flagship cloud management platform

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm

  Norway-based datacentre operator signs a waste heat reuse agreement with the world’s first land-based lobster farm

• June 18, 2021 18 Jun'21

  Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks

  Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Lenovo and Intel unveil second phase of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC buildout

  Currently ranked as the 15th most powerful supercomputer in the world, Lenovo and Intel’s tech will be used to up the performance and compute capabilities of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC environment

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations

  Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push

  International private healthcare provider is on a multi-year, cloud-led digital transformation push with the help of long-time tech collaborator Microsoft

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Atos offers enterprises digital route to net-zero emissions

  French IT services provider unveils portfolio of digital products, services, platforms and support to assist enterprises with curbing their greenhouse emissions

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre

  Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns

  The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Google to shift cloud compute tasks between datacentres based on green power availability

  Internet giant Google debuts capability that makes it possible to shift compute workloads between datacentres based on the regional availability of renewable, carbon-free power sources

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers

  Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Dell Technologies World: Amex CEO on how Covid-19 has accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce

  American Express CEO Stephen Squeri was among the commentators called upon during this year's Dell Technologies World keynote to discuss how the world of work and IT has changed during the pandemic

• April 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre

  The chipmaker aims to make use of standard chip libraries and offer its customers different ways to package and optimise Intel silicon

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population

  Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour

  Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages

  The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going ‘all-in’ on one public cloud provider ‘are dead’

  VMware-hosted panel debate about enterprise public cloud adoption trends charts the apparent demise of CIOs plotting large-scale, multi-year moves to a single supplier’s public cloud environment

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push

  The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  PagerDuty expands European datacentre presence with help from AWS

  Company is expanding its datacentre presence within Europe through its longstanding technology partnership with Amazon Web Services

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users

  Public cloud giant publishes details of its Carbon Free Energy Percentage metric that it hopes companies will use to inform their decisions about where best to run their workloads for sustainability reasons

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue

  Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  OVHcloud datacentre fire: Efforts underway to bring affected cloud customers back online

  OVHcloud confirms it is has reserved capacity at other datacentres, and is preparing to ramp up in-house production of its servers to bring its customers back online as soon as possible

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HPE called in to overhaul Swedish university’s supercomputing setup

  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing has commissioned HPE to build a supercomputer for one of Sweden’s largest technical universities

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  CBRE predicts 2021 will be record-breaking year for European colocation demand

  Latest quarterly market tracker report from CBRE paints a positive picture of how the growth of the European colocation market is set to proceed in the years to come

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

  City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023

  French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  Wellcome Sanger Institute embarks on cost-saving energy efficiency drive at Cambridge datacentre

  The Wellcome Sanger Institute has enlisted the help of long-standing tech partner EfficiencyIT to oversee a revamp of its datacentres’ energy monitoring and management systems

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal

  Ducati and Lenovo have signed another three-year deal that will see the MotoGP team dig deeper into its technology partner's product portfolio in pursuit of performance gains on the track by embracing virtual desktops, HPC and edge computing