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Datacentre systems management

• 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

• January 17, 2014 17 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

• January 16, 2014 16 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

• January 14, 2014 14 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

• January 13, 2014 13 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

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe

  Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts

• December 31, 2013 31 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

• December 28, 2013 28 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

• December 23, 2013 23 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...

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Microsoft enlists elite providers to ease customer cloud moves

  Cloud OS Network aims to woo organisations seeking hassle-free hybrid cloud

• 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

• 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

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre

  Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment

• 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

• December 02, 2013 02 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

• December 02, 2013 02 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

• November 29, 2013 29 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• November 13, 2013 13 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

• November 13, 2013 13 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

• November 08, 2013 08 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

• 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

• October 30, 2013 30 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• October 25, 2013 25 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

• October 25, 2013 25 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

• October 24, 2013 24 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

• October 23, 2013 23 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

• October 22, 2013 22 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

• October 21, 2013 21 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

• October 18, 2013 18 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

• October 17, 2013 17 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• October 11, 2013 11 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

• 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

• October 10, 2013 10 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

• 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

• October 09, 2013 09 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