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• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  UK banks under pressure to improve downtime reporting under new FCA rules

  To make it easier for customers to compare and switch between current account providers, UK banks are under pressure to improve their reporting processes for downtime and security incidents

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Infinity SDC sells Here East Olympic Park datacentre to fund development of Romford facility

  The colocation provider continues to scale-back its datacentre footprint in London, with the news it has exited its much-hyped facility in the former Olympic Park in Stratford

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  Frequency and severity of datacentre outages on the rise, Uptime Institute research suggests

  The Uptime Institute’s eighth annual datacentre survey reveals operators across the world are suffering more outages, as the complexity of the environments they manage continues to grow

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  BEIS courts datacentre operators to join energy efficiency technology accelerator programme

  Government-backed programme is being run by the Carbon Trust and offering grants of up to £1m to help participants commercialise new energy-saving technology developments

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push

  Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  How Google is using open source, containers and hybrid cloud to win over the enterprise

  At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the search giant gave an update on how its effort to win over enterprise IT decision-makers is progressing

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Virtus Data Centres plots further expansion of Slough colocation site

  Virtus Data Centres is adding three more data halls to its colocation facility in Slough, as well as carrying out a power upgrade at the site

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Carrenza expands public sector footprint with move into Ark Data Centres

  Carrenza parent Six Degrees hails potential for tighter public sector collaboration with Crown Hosting Services through Ark Data Centres deal

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

  Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

  Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

  Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

  Public sector-focused cloud provider has launched a standalone division, dubbed UKCloudX, to oversee its efforts to aid in the fight against cybe rcrime through the roll-out of its cloud platform

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over past relationship with fellow employee

  Intel confirms interim successor for Krzanich, who played a pivotal role in the company’s multi-year efforts to offset the declining demand for PC chips by courting the datacentre community

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

  Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments