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Datacentre systems management

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  Canonical founder calls out OpenStack suppliers for ‘lack of focus’ on datacentre cost savings

  Mark Shuttleworth says the OpenStack community needs to open up about the economics of using the open source cloud platform to avoid turning users off

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  CIO interview: Cathal Corcoran, Gatwick Airport

  Computer Weekly speaks to Gatwick Airport’s CIO about a major network upgrade, which will support future expansion and boost its IT services

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Interxion expands colocation footprint in Marseille with second datacentre opening

  Carrier-neutral colocation provider Interxion has opened the first phase of its second datacentre in Marseille, as the demand for lower-latency cloud connections to Africa and beyond grows

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  Inside the rise of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

  A blended strategy of building and acquiring datacentres, as well as forming local partnerships, has contributed to the rapid rise of one of the fastest-growing datacentre providers in Asia

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Emerson ordered to pay UK-based BladeRoom $30m in damages over datacentre IP theft

  Energy giant Emerson told to compensate UK-based modular datacentre tech maker after US court rules that it stole trade secrets

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Twitter plots Hadoop cluster migration to Google Cloud Platform

  Social media giant plans to offload some of its Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud Platform to boost the resiliency of its infrastructure

• May 02, 2018 02 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

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Enterprise readiness for multi-cloud adoption is low across Europe, suggests IDC research

  IDC suggests multi-cloud adoption will become the norm across European enterprises, but there is much work to be done before this becomes a reality

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  ScottishPower opens up about its two-year datacentre downsizing and migration project

  The team behind ScottishPower’s recent two-year push to downsize and migrate its primary datacentre describe the project’s challenges and successes

• April 25, 2018 25 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

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Investments in skills, infrastructure and SMEs needed to help UK data economy hit new heights

  The UK data economy may struggle to reach its full growth potential between now and 2025 unless action is taken, suggests research commissioned by datacentre operator Digital Realty

• April 09, 2018 09 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

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Microsoft outage: Europe-wide downtime locks Office 365 and Azure users out of cloud

  Microsoft engineers cite Azure Active Directory fault as cause of cloud customer service woes across Europe

• April 03, 2018 03 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

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Putting users first: Making sense of the CCS G-Cloud launch date U-turn

  The government's decision to roll back plans to delay the launch of G-Cloud 10 could be detrimental to the future of the framework, it is claimed