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Datacentre systems management

June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers

IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Facebook moves Instagram photos out of Amazon and into own datacentre

Facebook has moved all the user photos on Instagram out of Amazon’s cloud platform into its own internal datacentre and cut costs
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects

Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more
June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14
Intel unveils its most powerful chip, Xeon Phi, for supercomputers and HPC

At ISC 2014, Intel unveiled its next-gen chip, Xeon Phi, with an array of integrated hardware capabilities for HPC and supercomputers

June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers

The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Don’t let bean counters determine your cloud strategy, says Bank of England CIO

John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warns users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Coca-Cola bottler seeks to put mission-critical systems on the cloud

Coca Cola bottling company is moving the company’s mission-critical workloads, including ERP systems on to the cloud
June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14
Kemp Little lawyers offer tips for public cloud journey

Cloud CIOs need to have a “sense check” while planning their public cloud strategies, say technology lawyers
June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup

Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting

June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
80% of UK CIOs cite significant gap between business needs and IT delivery

80% of IT decision-makers in the UK feel there is a significant gap between business needs and IT delivery – the highest in Europe
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres

HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms

Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
Microsoft calls for US to respect privacy

Microsoft has taken its strongest stance to date against the US government’s far reaching snooping laws
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines

VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
Busy Bees nursery virtualises desktops and servers to improve users' IT experience

UK nursery chain Busy Bees has made its IT scalable, mobile-friendly and easy to use by deploying Citrix products
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price

Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
Why European Commission wants cloud standards and policies in Europe

Cloud is key to stimulate growth and create jobs in Europe, but needs a single cloud market, easy policies and cloud standards, says EU
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology

Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs

As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore
May 27, 2014 27 May'14
Digital Single Market for cloud in Europe is crucial, says EC

Europe is moving towards a Digital Single Market for cloud to promote the uptake of cloud computing and reduce complexities
May 23, 2014 23 May'14
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost

A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
May 23, 2014 23 May'14
Microsoft overturns FBI request for enterprise user's data in Seattle court

Microsoft successfully challenges an FBI National Security Letter requesting data about one of the company's enterprise customers
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion

The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College switches to Google cloud

Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College has migrated to a Google cloud system to support education outside the classroom
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
HP debuts Orchestrated Datacentre to automate IT operations and delivery

HP launches its Orchestrated Datacentre service suite to help the IT department deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management
May 19, 2014 19 May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection

Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox
May 14, 2014 14 May'14
‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues

Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.
May 09, 2014 09 May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Gartner recommends IT develops real-time system administration

Businesses will need to rethink their datacentre scaling within two years, to support the demands of web-scale computing
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg

The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services

HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG

A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service

The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
FT takes data warehousing to the cloud and cuts costs by 80%

How the Financial Times beat its data warehousing woes with AWS Redshift and saved costs
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
HP and Foxconn build servers for cloud and hyperscale computing

HP and Foxconn have entered into a joint venture agreement to produce a new line of servers designed to suit the cloud-based IT delivery model
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research

Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer

The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
News Corp rolls out cloud to Harper Collins, Dow Jones and WSJ after News UK success

News Corp is rolling out cloud services across its Harper Collins, Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal titles.
April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14
US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin

A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin
April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14
US cloud security firm builds datacentre in Cardiff for EMEA expansion

US cloud security company Alert Logic is building a datacentre and security operations centre in Cardiff to support its EMEA expansion strategy