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Datacentre systems management
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May 23, 2013
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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
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May 22, 2013
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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
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May 21, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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May 15, 2013
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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
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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
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May 13, 2013
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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
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May 09, 2013
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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
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May 08, 2013
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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
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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
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May 07, 2013
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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
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May 02, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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April 30, 2013
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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
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April 30, 2013
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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
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April 29, 2013
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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.
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April 24, 2013
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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
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April 17, 2013
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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
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April 16, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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April 10, 2013
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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
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April 05, 2013
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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
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April 05, 2013
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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
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April 02, 2013
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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
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March 18, 2013
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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
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March 18, 2013
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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
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March 17, 2013
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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
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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?
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March 13, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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March 08, 2013
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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
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March 07, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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March 04, 2013
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Mar'13
DCA launches first independent datacentre certification scheme
An independent multidisciplinary datacentre certification programme has been launched by industry body Data Centre Alliance
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March 01, 2013
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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
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March 01, 2013
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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
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February 28, 2013
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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
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February 28, 2013
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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
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February 27, 2013
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Feb'13
Rackspace enters DBaaS market with ObjectRocket acquisition
Open cloud company Rackspace has acquired ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service company
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February 27, 2013
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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
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February 26, 2013
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Feb'13
Lufthansa Systems modernises its datacentre for higher efficiency
Lufthansa Systems modernised its datacentres to host applications more robustly for its customers
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February 25, 2013
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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
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February 22, 2013
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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
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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