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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms

  Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps

  New research highlights the challenges CISOs face securing modern, cloud native applications

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire

  The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Google Cloud secures contract to supply online productivity tools to Central Dutch Government

  Search giant's cloud arm has secured a deal to supply its suite of online productivity tools to the Central Dutch Government

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Broadcom confirms $61bn deal to acquire VMware is going ahead

  Chipmaker Broadcom is continuing its buy-and-build strategy to expand into the software market by agreeing to acquire virtualisation giant VMware

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  Google Cloud expands European presence with opening of Madrid region

  Public cloud giant Google is continuing to build out its datacentre footprint across Europe with the opening of its latest region in Madrid, Spain

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Microsoft urged to do more to address European cloud antitrust complaints

  In the wake of Microsoft setting out its first steps towards addressing the antitrust complaints directed at it by some European cloud providers, one complainant said the firm needs to go further by making more of its off-premise portfolio open ...

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to enter general availability in June 2022

  Microsoft has confirmed its sustainability-focused suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools is set to enter general availability from June 2022

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Google embarks on UK-focused cloud skills programme pilot with non-profit Generation UK

  The Google Cloud team is enlisting the help of non-profit training and education provider Generation UK to help more people from under-represented groups start out on a career in cloud

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Rackspace mulls over business unit sell-off following strategic review of company

  A statement by the CEO of Rackspace suggests the company could be heading for another period of change, following a strategic review of its business

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Ryanair taps up AWS machine learning tech to manage in-flight refreshment stocks

  Low-cost airline Ryanair opens up about how its long-standing tech partnership with Amazon Web Services is helping it cut food waste and improve its in-flight customer service

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

  Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance

  The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  DWP Digital sets out three-year plan to improve data sharing and cut legacy

  In response to the pandemic, the government department aims to improve collaboration and develop a reference architecture

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud

  The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  AWS embarks on green power-focused deals with AES and Fluence Energy

  Amazon Web Services is beginning two green energy-focused collaborations that will see it ramp up the amount of renewable power it uses while helping other enterprises to do the same

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  Uptime Institute debuts sustainability-focused accreditation for datacentre professionals

  Uptime Institute continues to build out its education resources and support offerings for datacentre operators that want to get to grips with the changing regulatory landscape around sustainability

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  CyrusOne hits climate-neutral datacentre targets in Europe

  US colocation giant CyrusOne has published its latest sustainability report, which hails progress in making its global datacentre operations climate-neutral and water-positive

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  BT signs five-year deal with AWS to revamp legacy infrastructure and ready it for the cloud

  Telco giant has signed another multi-year cloud deal, this time with AWS, as it sets to work on revamping its operations and cutting costs

• April 29, 2022 29 Apr'22

  AWS grows as Amazon posts net loss

  AWS continues to dominate the public cloud market but Amazon has seen its revenue squeezed

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Disappointing earnings at Google, but cloud still strong

  Google posts first-quarter 2022 revenue of $68bn, but growth is not as fast as last year

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Microsoft shows inflation-busting growth, driven by cloud adoption

  As prices rise, Microsoft is trying to position its cloud services as the public cloud that offers the best value for money

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service

  The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Gartner: Public cloud spending on the rise across the globe as hybrid working takes hold

  Latest worldwide public cloud services spending tracker reveals end-user appetite for off-premise services shows no signs of slowing down

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

  Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app

  AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Vodafone hails business efficiency and sustainability gains of Google Cloud big data partnership

  Less than 12 months on from the announcement that Vodafone had signed a six-year strategic cloud deal with Google, the firm lifts the lid on how the technology tie-up is making its business more efficient

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

  The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

  Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  UCL and AWS team up for health tech-focused startup accelerator

  AWS is lending its cloud expertise to UCL’s startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards helping health and education organisations address global health issues

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market

  As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

  Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

  Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google

  Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London

  Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally

  The number of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world is set to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, as demand for capacity across the globe continues to soar

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Edge computing implementations still in their infancy

  It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  University of Reading tracks fruit tree flowering as spring breaks, with Oracle

  University is working with Oracle for research to monitor fruit trees as they blossom into spring

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  AWS pledges to invest £1.8bn in building out its UK datacentre footprint over next two years

  Public cloud giant outlines commitment to bolstering its digital infrastructure in the UK through investing billions of pounds in its datacentres

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Intel injects billions into European semiconductor push

  With no end in sight to the semiconductor shortage, Intel is blowing the budget on ramping up European manufacturing, packaging and R&D

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia

  Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  BT signs five-year deal with Google Cloud to revamp customer experience

  BT is teaming up with Google Cloud so it can tap into its portfolio of data analytics and artificial intelligence services, and revamp its customer experience

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities

  Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move

  The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  How FinOps can rein in cloud costs

  More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  ASOS commits to keep using Microsoft Azure for another five years to support business growth push

  Online retail giant ASOS is preparing to go even deeper into the Microsoft Azure cloud portfolio, as it looks to ramp up its use of data analytics to support its business growth goals

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery

  Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

  Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion