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Datacentre systems management
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January 20, 2014
20
Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push
New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
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January 17, 2014
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Jan'14
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs
NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals
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January 16, 2014
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Jan'14
Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup
Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe
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January 14, 2014
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Jan'14
Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises
New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium
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January 13, 2014
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Jan'14
Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold
A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace
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January 09, 2014
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Jan'14
UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe
Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts
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December 31, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 premium content articles of 2013
Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013
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December 28, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013
The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year
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December 23, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013
It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...
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December 12, 2013
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Dec'13
Microsoft enlists elite providers to ease customer cloud moves
Cloud OS Network aims to woo organisations seeking hassle-free hybrid cloud
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December 09, 2013
09
Dec'13
Price confusion casts cloud over utility computing dream
Without interoperability and clarity of pricing, true utility computing will remain a fantasy, a new report from 451 Research suggests
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
Google revs up cloud engine in AWS catch-up race
A renewed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) push by web giant Google could heat up competition among top providers
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December 03, 2013
03
Dec'13
Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre
Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment
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December 03, 2013
03
Dec'13
CIO interview: Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves on constructing a new bottom line
Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves reveals the challenges of rethinking IT from the ground up after inheriting 10 datacentres
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December 02, 2013
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Dec'13
Case study: Oxford Brookes revamps network with Juniper
Oxford Brookes University signs Juniper Networks to overhaul its infrastructure and modernise services for students and staff
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December 02, 2013
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Dec'13
Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits
Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months
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November 29, 2013
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Nov'13
Security is network professionals’ top priority for 2014
New research from TechTarget and Computer Weekly shows networking professionals see security as the biggest priority for 2014, whilst they claim the vendors’ favourite – software defined networking – is just not ready yet
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November 29, 2013
29
Nov'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries
Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here
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November 28, 2013
28
Nov'13
Big beasts fail to dent AWS cloud lead
Amazon’s cloud service remains more than four times more popular than its closest competitor, survey finds
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November 27, 2013
27
Nov'13
IT jobs remain secure as cloud adoption grows
Nine out of ten organisations redeploy freed-up resources on new projects and services, says CIF survey
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November 26, 2013
26
Nov'13
Tesco consolidates global datacentres into UK shared service
Tesco is six months away from completing a three-year programme to deliver a single datacentre operation to support UK and international operations
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November 26, 2013
26
Nov'13
How web giants are making datacentres lean and green
Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London
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November 20, 2013
20
Nov'13
Nordics push to become European datacentre hub
Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?
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November 15, 2013
15
Nov'13
Case study: Caterham F1 speeds ahead with Dell
Virtualised systems and a powerful HPC cluster help the UK-based, Malaysian-owned team Caterham F1 to punch above its weight in Formula One
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November 14, 2013
14
Nov'13
Cloud imperative for companies to remain agile, says AWS
Both enterprise and startups can benefit from the cloud, enabling employees to become more innovative, says Amazon Web Services
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November 13, 2013
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Nov'13
AWS re: Invent 2013 kicks off in Las Vegas
Amazon Web Services' annual conference opens with product announcements to the 8,000 strong crowd during the keynote
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November 13, 2013
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Nov'13
Totaljobs keeps lid on public cloud costs
How Computer Weekly European Datacentre award winner Totaljobs has fared since moving its web servers to AWS last year
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November 08, 2013
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Nov'13
University of Aberdeen - North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre
North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre has won the public sector project prize in Computer Weekly's European Datacentre Awards
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November 05, 2013
05
Nov'13
Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester
Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester
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October 30, 2013
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Oct'13
Red Hat and Intel launch educational initiative to drive OpenStack cloud adoption
Red Hat and Intel have collaborated to launch an initiative called On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack to help accelerate enterprise uptake of OpenStack
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October 29, 2013
29
Oct'13
G-Cloud raises the ceiling again for government IT procurement
The fourth version of of G-Cloud - G4 - has gone live, aiming to provide more SMEs a chance to win government IT contracts
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October 29, 2013
29
Oct'13
Study finds cloud computing the most valued enterprise IT skill
Cloud computing overtakes virtualisation, security, BI, database and project management as the most valued enterprise IT skill
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October 28, 2013
28
Oct'13
Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider
Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper
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October 25, 2013
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Oct'13
Capital markets set to increase cloud investment, predicts Ovum
Both the buy side and sell side of the capital markets are set to increase their IT spend on cloud computing services, says research firm
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October 25, 2013
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Oct'13
Help for Heroes picks hybrid cloud to optimise databases and website
Help for Heroes is building a hybrid cloud to optimise performance and resilience of the charity’s websites and databases
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October 24, 2013
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Oct'13
Firms using cloud for competitive advantage double revenue, claims IBM study
Firms using cloud platforms robustly for analytics, collaboration and CRM are reporting nearly double the revenues of those that are more cautious
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October 23, 2013
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Oct'13
Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner
Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner
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October 22, 2013
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Oct'13
Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid
Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency
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October 21, 2013
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Oct'13
Manchester’s Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust streamlines IT with private cloud
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is implementing a private cloud to improve IT efficiency for the organisation’s 8,800 staff members
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October 18, 2013
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Oct'13
EC: Europe should become a ‘trusted cloud region’ in the post-Prism age
European cloud providers must turn the Prism revelations into an opportunity to build trusted cloud services, says the EC
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October 17, 2013
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Oct'13
Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards: Winners
The Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards have been announced at a ceremony VMworld Europe in Barcelona. See who made the top spots
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October 16, 2013
16
Oct'13
Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform
Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings
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October 15, 2013
15
Oct'13
Datacentre traffic to triple by 2017 with cloud as biggest traffic source
Global datacentre traffic will grow threefold to reach 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017, study finds
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October 15, 2013
15
Oct'13
VMworld 2013: VMware delivers hybrid cloud in the UK
VMware has built a hybrid cloud service in Europe available to UK customers who want to bridge private and public services
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October 14, 2013
14
Oct'13
Italian university reduces costs by 23% with cloud platform
Italy’s first open university, Marconi University, has launched an IT project to host its e-learning services on a cloud platform
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October 11, 2013
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Oct'13
Orange builds datacentre in Normandy to boost cloud services
Telecoms operator Orange, has built a 16,000m² datacentre facility in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy
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October 10, 2013
10
Oct'13
Amazon Web Services launches free service to get startups on the cloud
Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Activate – a set of resources available for free – to help startups use the cloud
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October 10, 2013
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Oct'13
Case study: Bensons for Beds owner opts for third-party datacentre and managed services
Owner of Bensons for Beds and Harveys furniture stores outsources IT infrastructure and adopts third-party datacentre
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October 09, 2013
09
Oct'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards for Data Centre: Winners
The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Data Centre have been announced. See who made the top spots
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October 09, 2013
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Oct'13
IBM bolsters cloud portfolio by integrating SoftLayer assets
IBM has started shifting its cloud services on to SoftLayer’s infrastructure and has launched new SaaS products based on SoftLayer’s technology