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Datacentre systems management

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation

  DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

  HPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks

  Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  SDIA applauds EU-led push to make datacentres reuse waste heat and report environmental data

  The European Parliament and European Council have finalised the text of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will see datacentre operators in member states forced to publicly disclose more environmental data and pressured to reuse their ...

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

  More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

  SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  Mobile operator Three cuts datacentre cooling energy usage through EkkoSense deployment

  Mobile operator Three enlisted the help of EkkoSense to reduce the amount of energy used to cool four of its legacy datacentres as part of a cost- and carbon-cutting initiative

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Colt DCS starts build-out of renewably powered West London datacentre campus

  Hyperscale-focused colocation firm Colt DCS claims project will bring hundreds of jobs to West London

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  How Dell is future-proofing its business

  Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Government’s revised net-zero strategy could put public sector under more pressure to move to cloud

  With the UK government due to publish its revised net-zero strategy in the coming weeks, the public sector is being warned it could see itself under more pressure to move to cloud

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Research: Server farm size influences how concerned UK firms are with datacentre energy efficiency

  ASUS research highlights differing attitudes towards datacentre energy efficiency by UK firms depending on how big their server farm estate is

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  Ransomware operator turns their fire on two-year-old VMware bug

  A vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers that users should have patched in 2021 is now being exploited to spread ransomware

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Cisco fixes two bugs that could have led to supply chain attacks on users

  Two vulnerabilities uncovered in Cisco hardware could have opened the door to serious supply chain cyber attacks, according to the Trellix researchers who found them

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust warned in 2018 about datacentre cooling issues, outage report shows

  A review has been published regarding the circumstances that led to two datacentres, hosting healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, overheating during the 2022 summer heatwave

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022

  As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  CIO interview: Ed Higgs, group director of IT shared services, Rentokil Initial

  The pest control provider has consolidated 77 datacentres globally to just three – but with a corporate culture of acquisitions, there’s still a lot more to do

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  US hyperscale datacentre operator completes first phase of nuclear-powered server farm campus

  US-based Cumulus Data has completed the powered shell infrastructure of its datacentre campus, which will be directly fed nuclear power from a neighbouring plant

• January 03, 2023 03 Jan'23

  Batam datacentre to capture spillover demand from Singapore

  NeutraDC’s new datacentre facility in Batam will enable it to meet the spillover demand for datacentre services from neighbouring markets

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2022

  The energy crisis has wreaked havoc on the UK datacentre market in various ways this year, with supply and pricing issues blighting operators and their business interests

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

  The vehicle dealership group has been through a complete digital transformation that embraces cloud, mobile working and automation

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  How India is moving towards net zero

  Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

  French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

  Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  AWS to open cloud region in Thailand

  Amazon Web Services is planning to launch a Bangkok region, following the debut of CloudFront Edge locations and Outposts in the past two years

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Castrol to open datacentre immersion cooling test facility at Berkshire HQ

  BP-owned lubricant brand has unveiled the next phase in its work to accelerate adoption of immersion cooling technologies in datacentres

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud

  Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'

  The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

  The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

  VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

  A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

• September 05, 2022 05 Sep'22

  VMware doubles down on cloud in ASEAN

  Paul Simos, VMware’s managing director and vice-president for Southeast Asia and Korea, dives deeper into the company’s cloud strategy for the region

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware and IBM forge closer ties to build industry-specific hybrid cloud services

  Tech giants reinforce commitment to working together with pledge to co-develop industry-specific cloud services for regulated enterprises

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

  Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites

  Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  How worsening economic climate impacts IT spending

  As inflation rises, purse strings are tightening at the tech giants, which will have a material impact on chipmakers and providers of IT equipment

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

  Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  Microsoft hails success of hydrogen fuel cell trial at its New York datacentre

  Microsoft has opened up about how its efforts to replace the diesel backup generators in its datacentres is progressing

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Singapore to restart datacentre builds with sustainability focus

  The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Four key need-to-knows about CXL

  Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads