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Datacentre systems management

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud-enabling infrastructure products soared in 2017, IDC research shows

  IDC's latest cloud IT infrastructure market tracker shows the demand for public and private cloud-enabling servers, storage and Ethernet switches is showing no signs of slowing

• January 15, 2018 15 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 ...

• January 10, 2018 10 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

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre: AWS, Google and Microsoft rush to patch cloud chip flaws

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users

• January 04, 2018 04 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

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

  US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets

• November 28, 2017 28 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

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

  Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run

• November 01, 2017 01 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

• October 18, 2017 18 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

• October 10, 2017 10 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

• September 07, 2017 07 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

• August 17, 2017 17 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

• July 24, 2017 24 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

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres

  Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region

• June 22, 2017 22 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

• June 12, 2017 12 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

• June 09, 2017 09 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

• June 06, 2017 06 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

• May 30, 2017 30 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

• May 19, 2017 19 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

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Bombardier signs $700m IBM cloud deal to support business turnaround efforts

  Canadian vehicle manufacturer inks IBM cloud deal to support five-year push to cut costs and improve efficiency

• May 10, 2017 10 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

• May 05, 2017 05 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

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Google hails end of multi-year enterprise cloud migrations

  Google cloud chief, Diane Greene, claims multi-year datacentre migrations are no longer the norm, as some firms are making the move off-premise in weeks or months

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure

  Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud

• April 24, 2017 24 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

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Equinix tops global colocation leader boards on coverage and connectivity grounds

  Colocation giant Equinix emerges as the one to beat in Cloudscene’s inaugural rankings of globe’s biggest datacentre service providers

• April 18, 2017 18 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

• April 11, 2017 11 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

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  AWS London users suffer "insufficient capacity" problems with T2 Micro Instances

  Users of AWS's London-hosted T2 Micro Instances suffered capacity issues on Friday 24 March

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

  IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

  Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union

• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems

  The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

  CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  CenturyLink sells datacentre portfolio to private equity consortium

  Telco brings an end to months of speculation about its datacentre plans by confirming it has reached a deal to offload 57 sites to BC Partners

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments

  OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Singapore to pioneer tropical datacentre

  If successful, trial would prove that datacentres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38°C and humidity of up to, or exceeding, 90%

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Edge datacentres hailed as answer to latency concerns in IoT era

  With user demand for low-latency, high-performing applications, delegates at Datacloud Europe 2016 hail edge datacentres as the answer

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Lenovo expands x86 server production to Europe

  Chinese hardware manufacturer claims move will result in faster delivery times and lower costs for European customers

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business

  VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Göteborg Energi outsources IT with €40m deal

  Nordic energy company will use outsourcing agreement as a platform to modernise its IT environment

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Wal-Mart to make huge data and analytics investment in India

  Retail giant Wal-Mart is investing heavily in its IT development centre in Bangalore, turning the city into its most important centre outside the US

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Datacentre operators must "open up" to close industry skills gap, claims IO

  IO business development director Andrew Roughan said more must be done to encourage a wider range and higher number people into the datacentre industry

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth

  The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different