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Datacentre systems management
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November 02, 2018
02
Nov'18
Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced
Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced at VMworld next week
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October 18, 2018
18
Oct'18
Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October
Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination
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October 16, 2018
16
Oct'18
E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham
Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London
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October 15, 2018
15
Oct'18
Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal
Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense
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October 05, 2018
05
Oct'18
Amazon and Apple deny claims Chinese government bugged their servers
Amazon and Apple have publicly refuted a Bloomberg report that claims their servers were tampered with and bugged during the manufacturing process
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September 27, 2018
27
Sep'18
Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise
Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up
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September 21, 2018
21
Sep'18
Foreshadow mitigation obscures licensing impact
Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed
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September 19, 2018
19
Sep'18
EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer
Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC
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September 13, 2018
13
Sep'18
Autumn Budget 2018: Guarantees sought over future funding of national quantum computing programme
The chair of the Science and Tech Committee has written to the chancellor Philip Hammond to demand assurances that more funding for the UK's quantum computing efforts will be forthcoming in the Autumn 2018 budget
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September 12, 2018
12
Sep'18
AIOps killed the IT support star
There is no room for IT support stars, who can fix anything. As complexity increases, automation and machine learning are the only options
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September 10, 2018
10
Sep'18
Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia
The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy
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September 07, 2018
07
Sep'18
Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore
The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub
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August 30, 2018
30
Aug'18
Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications
The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended
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August 26, 2018
26
Aug'18
VMware debuts VMware Cloud on AWS in Australia, cuts entry price
Virtualisation juggernaut VMware rolls out its hybrid cloud service in Australia and has halved the entry price to sweeten the deal for enterprises
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August 24, 2018
24
Aug'18
Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs
The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows
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August 23, 2018
23
Aug'18
Danish government in ambitious datacentre push
Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive
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August 21, 2018
21
Aug'18
UK cryptocurrency exchange enlists Rackspace for Microsoft Azure cloud move
London Block Exchange taps up Rackspace to assist with two-month Microsoft Azure migration as it sets about shoring up its platform against demand spikes
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August 20, 2018
20
Aug'18
Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency
Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs
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August 16, 2018
16
Aug'18
Virgin Atlantic signs five-year IT infrastructure delivery and management deal with Exponential-e
Transatlantic airline claims teaming up with Exponential-e will provide its IT team with the "technology backbone" needed to roll out improvements to its customer-facing services
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August 14, 2018
14
Aug'18
Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes
Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo
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August 14, 2018
14
Aug'18
Ireland’s planning laws cited as ‘risk’ to government’s public sector datacentre plan
The Irish government concedes in tender document that country’s complex planning laws could put at risk government plans to build a public sector datacentre in Kildare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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July 31, 2018
31
Jul'18
Inner-city colocation space in demand as firms want better latency, says Interxion managing director
Previous predictions that rural datacentres would be more common are being changed as enterprises aim to bring better latency to customers, says Interxion managing director Andrew Fray
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July 26, 2018
26
Jul'18
Google brings machine learning data processing to IoT edge environments
Google is expanding its internet of things data processing offering by extending the ability for enterprises to carry out machine learning tasks in edge environments
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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
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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
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July 02, 2018
02
Jul'18
Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development
French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres
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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
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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
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June 19, 2018
19
Jun'18
Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage
Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime
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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
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June 18, 2018
18
Jun'18
Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market
NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data
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June 15, 2018
15
Jun'18
Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member
In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices
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June 14, 2018
14
Jun'18
Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre
Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption
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June 13, 2018
13
Jun'18
Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?
With the hyperscale cloud giants showing a growing willingness to build and own their own datacentres, where does this leave the colocation community? Panellists at Datacloud Europe 2018 give their verdict
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June 11, 2018
11
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
11
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 06, 2018
06
Jun'18
Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney
Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world
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June 06, 2018
06
Jun'18
Digital Catapult partners with Cray to give AI startups supercomputing power
Innovation centre says partnership will bring down some of the barriers to entry that startups often face in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning
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June 04, 2018
04
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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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