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Datacentre systems management
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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April 29, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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April 07, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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April 01, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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February 25, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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December 29, 2020
29
Dec'20
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
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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
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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?
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November 18, 2020
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Nov'20
Nokia Software embarks on ‘carbon negative’ datacentre revamp push with HPE Greenlake
Global telecoms giant Nokia Software opens up about the work it is doing to improve the environmental friendliness of the R&D datacentres underpinning its 5G innovation
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November 16, 2020
16
Nov'20
Space DC eyes Indonesia datacentre market
Space DC opens first of two datacentres with reliability and green features to tap Indonesia’s growing demand for datacentres
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November 11, 2020
11
Nov'20
What businesses can learn from GovTech’s digital strategy
Modernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic