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June 11, 2018
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Jun'18
Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows
Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue
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June 11, 2018
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Jun'18
Irish government vows to ease planning procedures for datacentre investors
After Apple and Amazon saw their datacentre plans tripped up by the Irish planning system, the government has outlined its commitment to easing the path to construction for other operators
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June 04, 2018
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Jun'18
Visa blames hardware failure for UK-wide card payment system outage
Credit card payment processor moves to assure customers that last Friday afternoon’s downtime was not the work of hackers
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May 02, 2018
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May'18
Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech
Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place
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April 25, 2018
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Apr'18
Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden
Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm
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April 20, 2018
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Apr'18
TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres
TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth
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April 17, 2018
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Apr'18
Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre
Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project
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April 13, 2018
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Apr'18
Crown Hosting and Fujitsu urge SIs to rethink approach to public sector IT in cloud era
Crown Hosting and Fujitsu claim shift away from large, multi-year outsourcing deals is a change some systems integrators are intent on ignoring
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April 11, 2018
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Apr'18
Facebook settles $365m modular datacentre IP theft case with UK-based BladeRoom Group
BladeRoom and Facebook are known to have reached a confidential settlement in their long-running legal dispute, which saw the social medial giant accused of stealing trade secrets
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April 09, 2018
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Apr'18
Norway government backs ambitious datacentre investment plan
Norway has a plan to be a leading location for datacentres with a policy that will put it in direct competition with some of its Nordic neighbours
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April 03, 2018
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Apr'18
IT set to gain the most from AI and automation
IT administrators anticipate that artificial intelligence and automation will only affect mundane tasks, freeing up 19% of their workload
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March 07, 2018
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Mar'18
VMware Cloud for AWS goes live in Amazon’s UK datacentres as hybrid cloud demand grows
Technology tie-up between VMware and AWS continues to go from strength to strength as the pair confirm a European expansion of their combined hybrid cloud-enabling service
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March 05, 2018
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Mar'18
Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres
Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m
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March 01, 2018
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Mar'18
Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres
As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image
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February 28, 2018
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Feb'18
Colt DCS ramps up renewable power use across European datacentre estate
Carrier neutral datacentre operator Colt DCS claims the technology industry has a "moral duty" to do more than the bare minimum to ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the environment
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February 21, 2018
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Feb'18
CBRE: European colocation market adjusts to 'new' high-growth norms in 2017
As the take-up and supply of datacentre capacity across Europe continues to hit new heights, CBRE claims the colocation market is entering a phase where high growth is becoming the "new normal"
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February 07, 2018
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Feb'18
Beyond Brexit: Can the hyperscalers future-proof the growth of the UK colocation market?
Demand for colocation datacentre space in London is booming, on the back of the hyperscale cloud giants setting up shop in the UK, but will it be enough to safeguard the sector’s growth in the face of Brexit?
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February 07, 2018
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Feb'18
IT managers in the dark over work-life balance pressure of on-call work, research shows
PagerDuty's inaugural work-life balance report highlights how unspoken frustrations about punishing on-call schedules can contribute towards employee attrition and workplace stress
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February 02, 2018
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Feb'18
Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure
Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system
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January 31, 2018
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Jan'18
Colocation providers told to team up with telcos to meet edge datacentre demand
Colocation providers can ill afford to take an “us and them” view of telcos when it comes to addressing the burgeoning demand for edge computing resources, says Datacloud UK panel
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January 30, 2018
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Jan'18
IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing
The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace
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January 25, 2018
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Jan'18
NHS Wales IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentres?
A country-wide outage of several core NHS Wales IT systems has prompted questions about the organisation’s datacentre failover procedures
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January 24, 2018
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Jan'18
Colt Technology Services outage: European customers hit by internet connectivity issues
Voice and data network provider Colt Technology Services suffers outage, blighting users in several European countries
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January 15, 2018
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Jan'18
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy
Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...
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January 10, 2018
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Jan'18
Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal
Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities
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January 04, 2018
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Jan'18
Claire House Children’s Hospice opens up about its digital transformation triumphs
Claire House Children’s Hospice took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards by sharing details of how technology is helping it achieve its aim of reaching every family who needs its help across the north-west of England
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December 18, 2017
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Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
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November 28, 2017
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Nov'17
Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs
The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre
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November 01, 2017
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Nov'17
Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors
Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold
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October 30, 2017
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Oct'17
Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans
Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence
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October 18, 2017
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Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing
Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
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October 10, 2017
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Oct'17
GE opens up on how its move to the AWS public cloud is progressing
The multi-national conglomerate claims to have migrated more than 2,000 apps to the AWS cloud, as its digital transformation efforts continue apace
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September 12, 2017
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Sep'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona
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September 07, 2017
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Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub
Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
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August 17, 2017
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Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway
Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
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July 31, 2017
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Jul'17
Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system
The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled
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July 24, 2017
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Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?
Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
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July 21, 2017
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Jul'17
Research from Ponemon Institute highlights lack of confidence in public sector IT
IT decision makers in the public sector say they struggle with IT operations, reveals study by the Ponemon Institute
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June 22, 2017
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Jun'17
British Army draws on infrastructure refresh and automation to power DevOps drive
Army opens up about how a move to adopt a software-defined datacentre setup has helped DevOps to take hold in the organisation
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June 12, 2017
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Jun'17
Wickes customers hit by ‘system-wide’ online ordering problems
Computer Weekly understands a “system-wide” issue is affecting the home improvement firm's online delivery bookings, as well as its click-and-collect services
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June 09, 2017
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Jun'17
British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?
BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that
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June 06, 2017
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Jun'17
Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal
About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement
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May 30, 2017
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May'17
British Airways counts cost of major bank holiday IT system outage
Share price of British Airways' parent company plummets after power supply issue at "local" datacentre grounds flights at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend
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May 19, 2017
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May'17
Microsoft to open African cloud datacentre region in 2018
Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance
The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
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May 05, 2017
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May'17
HSBC adopts cloud-first strategy to solving big data business problems
David Knott, chief architect at banking giant HSBC, tells Computer Weekly about how machine learning, big data analytics and cloud are changing the way it does business
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 24, 2017
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Apr'17
Research highlights cloud security complacency in organisations that ditch on-premise tech
Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premise
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April 18, 2017
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Apr'17
Virtus Data Centres plots to expand Slough colocation footprint
Colocation provider sets out plans to expand its datacentre footprint in Slough, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows
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April 11, 2017
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Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies
The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role