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Datacentre systems management

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace

  Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Rackspace creates 300 UK jobs with datacentre expansion

  Rackspace is leasing datacentre space in the UK to serve customers who want to host data in the EU to comply with data sovereignty rules

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Daisy Group takes control of 2e2's datacentre operations

  Daisy Group has entered an agreement to acquire and manage 2e2's datacentre business unit

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Siemens intensifies datacentre focus with launch of DCIM tool

  Siemens has launched its first datacentre infrastructure management tool, Datacenter Clarity LC, in a bid to intensify its focus on datacentres

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  CIF urges users follow procurement best practice after 2e2 closure

  The high-profile closure of 2e2 should serve as a lesson in best practice for businesses contracting cloud or managed service providers, says CIF

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Businesses are more willing to take datacentre risks amid budget cuts

  Datacentre cost, traditionally a secondary consideration to resilience, has moved higher on IT’s agenda, shows DataCentre Dynamics study

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps

  The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Datacentre managers fail to act on EC energy efficiency targets

  Only 21% of European datacentre managers have acted to address the EC's 20-20-20 Renewable Energy directive

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  VMware buys Virsto Software to extend software-defined datacentre strategy

  VMware is buying storage virtualisation specialist Virsto Software to deliver on its software-defined datacentre strategy

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  SaaS remains most popular form of cloud computing for UK IT

  SaaS is the top cloud service that UK IT professionals plan to use in 2013

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  IBM integrates Emerson Trellis platform for DCIM

  IBM has combined its IT service management with Emerson Network Power’s Trellis platform for datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM)

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom

  Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Virtualisation and datacentre consolidation still top priorities for UK IT

  Many UK IT professionals are still prioritising virtualisation and datacentre consolidation over cloud computing in 2013

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  BriForum London 2013: Brian Madden discusses what is hot in VDI space

  Deadline for session submissions for BriForum London 2013 on 16-17 May is looming. VDI guru Brian Madden on what is hot in the sector

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Cloud implementation costs higher than expected, finds KPMG

  Higher cloud implementation costs and IT integration challenges have come to the fore as use of cloud services rises

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance

  Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Brits stash £24bn of digital assets in the cloud

  Brits are storing about £24bn of photos, music and videos in the cloud, as well as sensitive data such as passwords, study shows

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Dell could prosper as private firm with Michael at the helm, say analysts

  Becoming a private company under the stewardship of founder Michael Dell could help Dell avoid the position HP is in, say experts

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Datacentre boom will push demand for energy-efficient UPSs in Europe

  Datacentre facilities will fuel growth in the European uninterruptible power supply (UPS) market

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

  SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Menzies Aviation replaces VMware with Windows Server 2012

  Menzies Aviation has become one of the first UK companies to install and use Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0 in production

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Dell's OpenStack-based public cloud to go live in Q4

  Dell’s Openstack-based public cloud, which is in beta-testing, will be made generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Big data and green IT receive large share of £600m government fund

  Technologies around big data and energy-efficient computing have attracted millions of pounds in funding

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  Nasdaq OMX picks Slough datacentre to host NLX platform

  US stock exchange Nasdaq has picked Equinix’s Slough datacentre campus to host its London-based trading platform NLX

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  UK lags behind US in cloud adoption

  Research from Vanson Bourne highlights the differences in attitude towards cloud computing between enterprises in the UK and the US

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

  National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  Beware of 'rogue clouds' and hidden costs, warns Symantec

  A growing number of enterprises and SMEs are experiencing escalating costs tied to rogue cloud use, warns Symantec

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  EESC puts forward alternative EU cloud strategy

  The European Commission’s cloud strategy falls short, says EU consultative body as it puts forward an alternative

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Brighton hospital bucks trend by moving from shared services to in-house IT

  Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust moves to an in-house, converged infrastructure for agility and cost savings

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Oracle adds on-premise IaaS to its private cloud portfolio

  Oracle IaaS allows customers to use cloud features such as capacity on demand within the security and control of its in-house datacentre

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  FusionIO launches hyperscale computing server flash card

  FusionIO launches PCIe card-based server flash ioScale for hyperscale users who want to dispense with HDDs in commodity-based servers

• January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13

  Global energy management software market to grow in 2013, say analysts

  Businesses are increasing investment in energy management software to improve IT efficiency, says Verdantix

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Microsoft opens Azure cloud to Linux apps and VMs

  Microsoft Open Technologies has released VM Depot to allow users to deploy and share Linux apps and virtual machines on the Azure cloud

• January 10, 2013 10 Jan'13

  News International presses ahead on the cloud with AWS

  News International has reaped public cloud benefits such as scalability, quick time-to-market and cheaper capital expenditure with AWS cloud

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  Virtualisation's complex licensing is a 'ticking timebomb', claims study

  Software licensing under virtualisation remains complex and many firms may have a significant shortfall in compliance, warns License Dashboard

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Multi-cloud strategies will become commonplace, says Rackspace CTO

  Large enterprises are already considering multiple clouds to mitigate the risk of a single cloud outage

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Cloud computing skills gap is widening, warns IDC

  About 1.7 million cloud computing-related job roles globally could not be filled in 2012 because applicants lacked cloud-related skills

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Government awards £5m to research projects that address cloud challenges

  The government is offering £5m funding for research and development projects that will address cloud computing challenges and push its adoption

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

  Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge uses datacentre tools to improve efficiency

  Microsoft Research Cambridge used datacentre planning and management tools to improve efficiency and support the researchers

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Competing standards could damage cloud industry, warns APM group

  Standards are crucial to maturing cloud services but too many could damage the industry, says certification body the APM Group

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Microsoft undercuts Google, AWS in cloud storage price drop

  Just days after Google and Amazon Web Services dropped their cloud storage prices, Microsoft has announced a steeper cut

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Case study: CERN adopts OpenStack private cloud to solve big data challenges

  CERN is using OpenStack private cloud to overcome IT inefficiency and big data challenges