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Datacentre systems management

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  VMware's hybrid cloud to allow users to extend datacentres to public cloud

  VMware has launched vCloud Hybrid Service IaaS to allow users to extend their datacentre to the public cloud without rewriting applications

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  EC-funded datacentre efficiency project CoolEmAll releases first prototypes

  The European Commission funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of tools designed to make datacentres more efficient

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  UK ranked safest datacentre location in Europe but lags behind US in global ranking

  The UK has been ranked as the lowest-risk destination in Europe for businesses to build datacentres, a Data Centre Risk Index 2013 shows

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  London Olympic Park will become home to a datacentre facility

  The London Legacy Development Corporation has signed a deal with a UK provider to develop a datacentre facility at the Olympic Park

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Google makes IaaS product Google Compute Engine generally available

  Google has made its IaaS platform, Google Compute Engine, generally available to any developer or business

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  CIO interview: Colin Rees, IT director, Domino's Pizza

  The pizza delivery chain's IT director Colin Rees talks about its journey to cloud computing and the challenges of BYOD and IT consumerisation

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Firms not ready for Windows XP end-of-life could face compliance risks

  In less than a year, Microsoft ends support on Windows XP. Companies must have a migration plan or face compliance issues

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Another datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool hits the market

  Digital Realty Trust has become the latest datacentre provider to launch a DCIM service called EnVision

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  Redstation offers 100Gbps data speed for bandwidth-hungry customers

  Datacentre provider Redstation offers businesses data speeds of up to 100Gbps as customers demand greater bandwidth

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Virtualisation and automation help Jaguar Land Rover increase output

  Jaguar Land Rover launched a five-year IT upgrade project including virtualisation and automation and it has already started reaping benefits

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  SME Arcus brings AWS IaaS and PaaS to public sector with G-Cloud

  UK SME Arcus Global has become the first certified Amazon Web Services reseller on the government’s third G-Cloud framework

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Can VMware capture the cloud with its software-defined datacentre strategy?

  According to VMware, a software defined datatcentre is the foundation of a hybrid cloud to help businesses deliver ITaaS

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Salesforce readies UK datacentre for 2014

  The UK government and regulated industries will have to wait until 2014 before Salesforce.com establishes a UK datacentre

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  G-Cloud spending boosts UK SME Memset’s revenue

  UK SME Memset saw its revenue from G-Cloud increase by 38% in six months due to public sector cloud initiatives

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  University of Cumbria to develop a cloud infrastructure

  The University of Cumbria is undertaking a multimillion-pound IT project to develop a cloud infrastructure for flexibility and efficiency

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Brocade outlines on-demand datacentre strategy

  Brocade has developed a strategy for an “on-demand datacentre” which combines physical and virtual networking elements

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Cloud critical to e-governance in India

  The Government of India is expanding e-governance throughout the country and is working on embracing cloud computing for it.

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Taxpayers oblivious to smart meters as government plans to spend big

  Government awards billions of pounds' worth of IT contracts in the smart meter roll-out despite less than half the UK population knowing what it is

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Microsoft pledges to match AWS prices with Azure services

  Microsoft has made its new Windows Azure Infrastructure Services generally available and pledged to match Amazon Web Services prices

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  UK leads Europe in datacentre demand, study finds

  Demand for new datacentres is highest among businesses in the UK, according to a study on the European datacentre market

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Interview: Brad Anderson, Microsoft corporate vice-president of Windows Server and System Center

  Brad Anderson, head of Windows Server and System Center at Microsoft, talks about the future of the server and management platform

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Intel outlines reference design for hyperscale datacentres

  Intel is developing a server rack design architecture for deployment as a full rack for improved server utilisation

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Microsoft starts to push on MDM, cloud and BYOD

  With Microsoft’s enterprise IT dominance under threat, the firm is pushing its products for mobile device management and cloud computing

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  IBM adds social dimension to its European datacentre facility

  IBM has launched a social business datacentre in Germany for customers that want to use cloud-based social business services

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  HP chairman Ray Lane steps down following shareholder attack

  Ray Lane has stepped down as chairman of the board of HP following a meeting with angry shareholders in March

• April 02, 2013 02 Apr'13

  Apple's renewable energy-powered datacentres account for 2% of its carbon footprint

  Apple was responsible for 30.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2012, but only 2% of that was from its datacentres

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Low energy prices in US attract datacentre investment at Europe’s expense

  Low and stable electricity prices are likely to make the US a target for datacentre investment at Europe’s expense

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Use of cloud for disaster recovery, backup and desktop set to rise

  Adoption of cloud computing will move from SaaS to more sophisticated uses such as disaster recovery, backup, business continuity and desktop services

• March 17, 2013 17 Mar'13

  Human error most likely cause of datacentre downtime, finds study

  Human error such as inadvertently adjusting the temperature or pulling power cords from an asset are biggest causes of datacentre downtime

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  VMware takes first step in the public cloud space with hybrid cloud offering

  VMware has launched a hybrid cloud service and created a new cloud business division. Will its move to the IaaS space help it take on AWS?

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Warren School upgrades legacy IT for BYOD and flexibility

  Essex-based Warren School has replaced legacy servers with virtualised, consolidated infrastructure for a BYOD programme for staff and students

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  The Green Grid launches EDE metric to measure datacentre e-waste management

  The Green Grid launches Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric to measure how datacentre e-waste is managed

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Firms overlook commercial and legislative risks to datacentres

  As datacentres become an integral part of a business, serious commercial and legislative risks are being ignored

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  The Health Lottery picks two datacentres for data security and resilience

  The Health Lottery decided to have host its applications on two ideltical datacentres as a disaster recovery good practice and for high resilience

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Case study: How Advania maintains a low PUE in its Icelandic datacentre

  Advania's Thor datacentre near Reykjavik uses Iceland's natural energy resources and free air cooling to maintain a low PUE

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Iceland prepares to lure Silicon Valley IT giants to build datacentres

  Despite having the facilities to build a green datacentre, big firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google have not opted for a base in Iceland

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Cheap energy and green credentials lure business to Iceland datacentres

  As European businesses are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, many are turning to Iceland to build datacentres

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  DCA launches first independent datacentre certification scheme

  An independent multidisciplinary datacentre certification programme has been launched by industry body Data Centre Alliance

• March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

  Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance to shape cloud’s future

  Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) to develop standards for cloud computing

• March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

  Verne Global expands green datacentre footprint in Iceland

  Verne Global has selected Colt's UK-made modular datacentres to expand its Icelandic facility

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  European Commission funded project CoolEmAll to develop datacentre toolkit

  EC's green IT project CoolEmAll is developing the first prototype of the Simulation, Visualisation and Decision-Support (SVD) toolkit

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Big data is adding tremendous strain to datacentres, says IDC

  Big data is causing a lot of strain to datacentre facilities and spiking datacentre workloads creating serious security concerns

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Rackspace enters DBaaS market with ObjectRocket acquisition

  Open cloud company Rackspace has acquired ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service company

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Frequent hardware upgrades help optimise datacentre cooling and efficiency

  UK organisations must refresh their datatcentre hardware every three years to make systems more power efficient

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Lufthansa Systems modernises its datacentre for higher efficiency

  Lufthansa Systems modernised its datacentres to host applications more robustly for its customers

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Microsoft to provide credit to customers after Windows Azure outage

  Microsoft will reimburse customers affected by the Windows Azure outage caused by an expired SSL certificate

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Facebook to build cold storage facility at Prineville datacentre for old photos

  Facebook is planning a ‘cold storage’ facility at its Prineville datacentre facility in Oregon to archive users’ old photographs

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  News International to collapse six datacentres as part of its cloud strategy

  News International will close down two datacentres each in the UK, the US and Australia as it looks to use more cloud services