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Datacentre systems management

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live

  The UK's most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Ascendas India Trust to build datacentre near Mumbai

  New datacentre campus near Mumbai will deliver 90MW of power to host technology and cloud suppliers as well as large Indian companies in a fast-growing market

• July 03, 2021 03 Jul'21

  Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials

  In a major setback for police hacking operations, Berlin’s regional court has decided that intercepted data from the EncroChat phone network should not be used in criminal prosecutions

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out

  Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water

  Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service

  Extreme Networks will draw on Microsoft Azure's UK datacentre region to provide its customers with locally hosted versions of its flagship cloud management platform

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm

  Norway-based datacentre operator signs a waste heat reuse agreement with the world’s first land-based lobster farm

• June 18, 2021 18 Jun'21

  Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks

  Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Lenovo and Intel unveil second phase of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC buildout

  Currently ranked as the 15th most powerful supercomputer in the world, Lenovo and Intel’s tech will be used to up the performance and compute capabilities of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC environment

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations

  Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Singapore universities to develop cooling solutions for tropical datacentres

  The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University will research on cooling technologies that help to lower the power consumption and carbon footprint of topical datacentres

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push

  International private healthcare provider is on a multi-year, cloud-led digital transformation push with the help of long-time tech collaborator Microsoft

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Atos offers enterprises digital route to net-zero emissions

  French IT services provider unveils portfolio of digital products, services, platforms and support to assist enterprises with curbing their greenhouse emissions

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre

  Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns

  The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Google to shift cloud compute tasks between datacentres based on green power availability

  Internet giant Google debuts capability that makes it possible to shift compute workloads between datacentres based on the regional availability of renewable, carbon-free power sources

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers

  Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Dell Technologies World: Amex CEO on how Covid-19 has accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce

  American Express CEO Stephen Squeri was among the commentators called upon during this year's Dell Technologies World keynote to discuss how the world of work and IT has changed during the pandemic

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Government gets updated powers to intervene on tech-related M&A deals on national security grounds

  The National Security and Investment Bill has secured royal assent, giving the government the legislative support it needs to intervene on business transactions in a variety of tech-related industries on national security grounds

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population

  Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour

  Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages

  The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going ‘all-in’ on one public cloud provider ‘are dead’

  VMware-hosted panel debate about enterprise public cloud adoption trends charts the apparent demise of CIOs plotting large-scale, multi-year moves to a single supplier’s public cloud environment

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users

  One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint

  Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

  VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management

• April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

  How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

  Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  EncroChat hearings delayed as lawyers seek disclosure on police hacking

  Court hearings precipitated by police cracking the EncroChat secure mobile phone network have been delayed after defence lawyers request further disclosures on police decryption capabilities

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push

  The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users

  Public cloud giant publishes details of its Carbon Free Energy Percentage metric that it hopes companies will use to inform their decisions about where best to run their workloads for sustainability reasons

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue

  Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Research: Continuous upgrades to datacentre virtualisation setups key to curbing carbon emissions

  A VMware-commissioned report by Aurora Energy Research highlights environmental benefits that can be attained by operators taking steps to continually improve their datacentre virtualisation setups

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HPE called in to overhaul Swedish university’s supercomputing setup

  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing has commissioned HPE to build a supercomputer for one of Sweden’s largest technical universities

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  CBRE predicts 2021 will be record-breaking year for European colocation demand

  Latest quarterly market tracker report from CBRE paints a positive picture of how the growth of the European colocation market is set to proceed in the years to come

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

  City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023

  French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  Power supply shortages in colocation hubs pile pressure on datacentre operators to go green

  As demand for colocation capacity continues to soar in datacentre hubs, operators are coming under increasing pressure to go green, say Telehouse Europe panel participants

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal

  Ducati and Lenovo have signed another three-year deal that will see the MotoGP team dig deeper into its technology partner's product portfolio in pursuit of performance gains on the track by embracing virtual desktops, HPC and edge computing

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Oracle claims major win in Australian public sector

  Australian Data Centres will deploy Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to host cloud services for the federal government

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn

  Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  IBM, Apple and Accenture join MIT cross-industry climate change-tackling consortium

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s cross-industry push to tackle climate change has attracted some big names from the world of tech, including Apple, IBM, Accenture and Verizon

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Uptime Institute report highlights recruitment issues blighting global datacentre industry

  First-of-its-kind research into recruitment challenges facing the datacentre industry calls for action to avert a skills crisis developing in the future

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Microsoft teams up with UK startup to minimise impact of climate change by aviation industry

  Cambridge-based startup Satavia is tapping into the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform to help aviation industry minimise the impact its activities have on the environment

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  How Globe Telecom is doubling down on cloud

  The largest mobile operator in the Philippines has moved its legacy systems to the cloud and there is more to come as it looks towards deploying cloud radio access networks and cloud-native applications

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Qualcomm announces Nuvia acquisition plan

  Mobile chip giant makes strategic acquisition to augment technology roadmap to redefine compute performance for next-generation devices

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation industry shifts its focus away from business growth to business survival

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Gaia-X: Inside the bid to create an open, next-gen data infrastructure for European enterprises

  The Gaia-X project is billed as a push to create an open, cross-continent, next-generation data infrastructure “by Europe and for Europe”, but why is it needed?