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• January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

  IaaS challenger OVH to open first UK datacentre by May 2017

  French hosting provider sets out plans to ramp up its UK presence with a series of datacentre builds over the coming year

• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  Hosting provider dumps Docklands-based colocation firm for Migsolv

  Hosting provider 52 Degrees ditches Docklands-based colocation provider for security and efficiency reasons

• December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2016

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Hyperscale datacentre growth sees demand for OEM hardware soar, research shows

  Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016

  Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market

  Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Midland News Association backs shared services for improved business agility

  Midland News Association took home the Best of Show prize at the 2016 Best of VMworld Awards after cutting costs and boosting business agility by overhauling its IT infrastructure

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  HMRC slammed over tax probe into Newcastle datacentre campus investors

  HM Revenue and Customs said it is committed to clamping down on abuses of the UK tax system, following criticism of its decision to recoup tax relief payments to datacentre investors

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2016

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2016

• December 15, 2016 15 Dec'16

  Cisco confirms closure of Intercloud public cloud platform in 2017

  Networking giant says change in cloud strategy indicates how users’ technology needs are evolving

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  Microsoft to offer cloud users private network connections to UK datacentres

  Software giant Microsoft expands on UK datacentre launch to give users private network access to its facilities

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  AWS opens UK datacentre region to meet "pent-up" demand for locally-hosted cloud

  The UK managing director of AWS claims region opening will help existing customers meet their latency and data sovereignty requirements, and benefit the wider economy

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud

  Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

  To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Tech industry big guns unite to create crash-free IT services and systems

  Some of the tech industry's biggest names have come together to create the Zero Outage Industry Standards Association to help improve the uptime of IT systems and services

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

  Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services

  The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Quarter of Apac CIOs expect IT budget to rise by more than 10%

  More than half of Apac-based IT decision-makers expect budgets to rise next year and cloud-related projects look the likely destination of the extra money

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Hybrid cloud set to dominate datacentre infrastructure buying decisions

  The 2017 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests the next 12 months will see enterprise IT buyers move to increase the hybrid-readiness of their datacentre facilities

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Google to hit 100% renewable energy target for datacentres in 2017

  Google claims to be on course to hit its 100% renewable energy pledge in 2017 by ramping up its acquisition of green power sources

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Equinix to acquire 29 datacentres from Verizon for $3.6bn

  Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquisition trail once more, as it continues on its quest to expand its global datacentre footprint

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  The need for speed: Inside the cloud innovation engine at AWS

  With analysts citing Amazon’s speedy product release cycles as a major source of competitive difference for the cloud firm, AWS CEO Andy Jassy opens up about how it keeps its innovation engine ticking over

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• December 02, 2016 02 Dec'16

  AWS on bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence to the cloud masses

  Amazon Web Services used Re:Invent 2016 to stake its claim as an early adopter of machine learning, while revealing details of its plans to boost the technology's take-up among everyday developers

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS to hit halfway point on 100% green datacentre pledge by end of 2017

  Amazon Web Services opens up about the progress it is making with ramping up the amount of renewable energy its datacentres consume

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS ramps up efforts to solve enterprise petabyte-scale cloud data migrations woes

  Cloud giant fleshes out data-transfer appliance portfolio to help enterprises shift large amounts of data off-premise

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs

  Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  Growing multi-cloud demand means providers must diversify to survive, warns 451 Research

  Two reports from analyst house 451 Research suggest cloud providers must consider adding support for competing services to their portfolios in order to survive in the hybrid, multi-cloud era

• November 28, 2016 28 Nov'16

  Metro fibre dig backs new Newcastle datacentre build

  Newcastle campus datacentre owner supports the connectivity needs of local businesses as well as cloud customers

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

  CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  Colocation laggards warned about dangers of ignoring needs of hyperscale cloud giants

  Steve Wallage, managing director of datacentre-focused analyst house Broadgroup Consulting, says operators that take the time to forge closer ties with customers stand to benefit from the rise in demand for colocation from hyperscale cloud giants

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  AWS challenger Alibaba Cloud opens German datacentre to woo European enterprises

  Chinese cloud services firm Alibaba outlines plans to shake-up the European cloud market with German datacentre launch

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  IBM, HPE and T-Systems compete for Europe-wide €5.3m hybrid cloud contract

  European research groups confirm details of who made it through to next stage of their hybrid cloud procurement process

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alibaba brings public cloud to the Middle East

  Alibaba has opened a datacentre in Dubai to attract businesses in the Middle East to its public cloud services

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alibaba to open datacentre in Australia

  Alibaba Cloud will open a datacentre in Sydney by the end of 2016 as part of its global expansion

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  HumanOps: Etsy on how unclear workplace expectations contribute to staff burnout

  IT managers risk "normalising" bad workplace behaviour and contributing to employee stress by responding to emails out of hours and staying late unnecessarily, warns Etsy web operations manager

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Using AI to cut humans out of the datacentre sustainability equation

  As the idea of using artificial intelligence to reduce energy use by datacentres gathers momentum, does this spell the end of human intervention on sustainability matters?

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

  Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  T-Systems talks up post-Brexit benefits of new UK datacentre

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom opens UK datacentre to help enterprises grappling with private cloud and SAP migrations

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  SSP Worldwide under fire over cloud outage communication failings

  Insurance brokers blast SSP Worldwide over its approach to crisis communications during recent cloud outages

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Cloud set to net a larger share of enterprise IT budgets in 2017, predicts 451 Research

  451 Research's cloud and hosting market review suggests enterprise IT decision makers are preparing to ramp up with use of cloud and hosting services in 2017

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers hit by second SSP Worldwide cloud outage in less than a week

  Insurance software house comes under fire from users again, after they run into problems with its cloud service for the second time in a week

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 10, 2016 10 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers fume as SSP Worldwide suffers new cloud outage

  Insurance brokers outline dismay at fresh round of service problems so soon after September's two-week cloud outage

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  HSBC combines AWS with agile thinking to tap into growing demand for mobile banking

  Banking giant opens up about how cloud and DevOps adoption is helping it cope with the growing consumer demand for mobile and online banking services

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  AWS shares datacentre security secrets to inspire more enterprise cloud adoption

  CISO says there is no need to sacrifice security to pursue innovation in the cloud, as he reveals how the cloud giant safeguards customer information in its datacentres

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  The transformation of Randstad’s IT infrastructure

  Digitisation is one of the key themes in Randstad's latest financial report, with the transformation of its IT infrastructure a fundamental step in achieving this

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

  Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  CenturyLink sells datacentre portfolio to private equity consortium

  Telco brings an end to months of speculation about its datacentre plans by confirming it has reached a deal to offload 57 sites to BC Partners

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Dropbox and Google commit to improving terms of use for cloud storage customers

  Dropbox and Google join the government’s push to ensure cloud storage users are not caught out by sudden price hikes or contract changes

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Datacentre industry faces looming skills crisis as need to replace retiring engineers grows

  With new figures suggesting the average datacentre worker is 55 years old and male, the industry opens up about what needs to be done to secure a pipeline of new talent to replace those approaching retirement age

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  SDN trailblazer Big Switch Networks launches in UK

  Having established a base of paying customers through a key partnership with Dell, SDN supplier Big Switch Networks is opening its first European offices and gunning for Cisco’s ACI business

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Property firm flips to Azure to mobilise business processes

  Property consultancy Strutt and Parker engaged cloud services provider 3GI to upgrade its IT systems to Microsoft Azure as more clients demanded a mobile-first approach

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload

  Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  OpenStack adoption by enterprise grows

  New research has found that businesses of all sizes are taking on OpenStack to run their private and hybrid clouds

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Microsoft hikes UK enterprise software and cloud prices as pound tumbles

  The software giant's policy of harmonising prices across Europe means charges go up from 1 January 2017

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Huawei unleashes European cloud programme, commits to UK business

  At an event in Paris, Huawei launches a €75m cloud development programme, and reaffirms its commitment to its UK operations post-Brexit

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Google to open one new datacentre region a month in 2017 to boost multi-cloud appeal

  Google uses cloud user conference to outline how its commitment to innovation, low prices and new datacentre regions is helping it stake a claim in its competitors’ customer bases

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2016: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2016 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  New College Durham selects VMware’s VSan over hyperconverged appliances

  New College Durham decides to update its expensive SAN with VMware’s Virtual San, as hyperconverged infrastructure was deemed too expensive and ill-fitting for the college

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMworld 2016: VMware progresses its hybrid strategy

  Following its partnership with AWS, VMware is honing its hybrid strategy with a suite of tools to manage workloads accros private and public clouds

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off

  IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Malaysia upgrades internet exchange to cope with increased traffic

  Country’s peak internet data hit all-time record in August, equating to year-on-year growth of 57%

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Traditional datacentre hardware revenues hit by digital transformation efforts

  Technology Business Research report sheds light on the impact that cloud, virtualisation and hyper-convergence are having on traditional datacentre hardware revenues

• October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16

  Post-Brexit drop in pound sees cloud costs rise by £1,750 a year in UK, 451 Research shows

  451 Research shows UK enterprises are on course to pay thousands of pounds more for the same cloud services as last year, in the wake of Brexit

• October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16

  SSP Worldwide customers call for revised compensation offer for two-week cloud outage

  Insurance brokers urge software house to rethink rebates, in light of the financial toll prolonged cloud outage has taken on their businesses

• October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16

  VMware and AWS joint venture to help enterprises manage multi-cloud environments

  Virtualisation giant VMware reinforces its commitment to helping enterprises manage multi-cloud deployments with AWS partnership

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  Verizon and CenturyLink close to colocation datacentre sell-offs, say reports

  Reports suggest both CenturyLink and Verizon could be on the cusp of off-loading their colocation assets, after months of speculation

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Singapore property investor snaps up BT’s Cardiff datacentre for £34m

  Keppel DC REIT acquires site on Celtic Gateway business park that has three data halls capable of housing 12,000 servers

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  SSP set for showdown with insurance brokers over two-week Solihull datacentre meltdown

  Senior leaders from insurance software provider will meet brokers next week to discuss the precautions it has taken to prevent a repeat of Solihull datacentre outage

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

  UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  UK firms living in fear of obsolescence as competitive threat posed by startups grows

  Dell Technologies survey suggests UK firms are living in fear of disruption from nimbler startups and overseas competitors

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  PXP reduces costs and raises efficiency with hyperconverged IT

  Payment provider PXP simplifies its datacentre setup and gains a 30% boost in performance

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2016: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, which is set to take place on Wednesday 19 October 2016 at VMworld, Barcelona

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Microsoft calls for cross-industry collaboration to create ‘responsible and inclusive’ clouds

  Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Google to open UK datacentre region as enterprise cloud push gathers pace

  Internet giant outlines next phase of enterprise cloud development, including rolling out machine learning across its portfolio and building out its global datacentre presence

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Amazon Web Services expands European datacentre footprint with Paris region opening

  Amazon Web Services outlines plans to build Paris datacentre region in 2017, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Microsoft’s grand plan aims to make big data intelligence accessible to all

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to democratise access to big data intelligence across the enterprise through the use of cloud, machine learning and new datacentre chip technologies

• September 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  UK Oracle MD: companies repeating tangled architectures in cloud

  Oracle’s UK, Ireland and Israel managing director, Dermot O’Kelly takes stock of Open World 2016 and urges CIOs not to reinvent on-premise “accidental architectures” in the cloud

• September 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  Microsoft preps datacentres for AI revolution through deployment of reprogrammable chips

  Microsoft claims field programmable gate array chips are now live in Azure datacentres in 15 countries, as it future-proofs its infrastructure for the rise of big data applications

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  Microsoft accuses public cloud rivals of overlooking enterprise

  Software giant talks up its enterprise credentials and heritage, while taking a swipe at its public cloud competitors

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe

  Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research

  Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  IBM opens first Nordic cloud datacentre

  Oslo datacentre is IBM’s 12th in Europe and 48th globally and will target large and small enterprises and startups to offer services

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Mirantis acquires TCP Cloud in continuous delivery push for OpenStack deployments

  OpenStack distribution provider claims TCP Cloud acquisition will ensure its customers' infrastructure is equipped to cope with the rate of application innovation they are demanding

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Maturing OpenStack faces enterprise IT challenges

  We look at how OpenStack is shifting into the enterprise and explore the cultural barriers it faces

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Google sets out plans to stop its datacentre waste going to landfill

  Internet giant claims six out of 14 of its global datacentres no longer send any waste to landfill, as a result of its efforts

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Microsoft and Google cloud users suffer service outages

  Downtime hits Microsoft and Google cloud users as rival service providers both experience technical difficulties

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  SSP customer pays £6.5m to exit IT platform contract with insurance software firm early

  CPPGroup has decided to replace SSP's technology with a platform based on its existing systems, at a cost of more than £6.5m

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Gartner highlights gap between enterprise cloud adoption expectations and reality

  Market watcher claims enterprise aspirations around cloud adoption are not being met

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Dubai Culture modernises its datacentre

  Organisation that brings Dubai’s cultural heritage to life has implemented the latest technologies to support its mission

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers fear regulatory action over SSP Worldwide cloud outage

  Insurance brokers hit out at disaster recovery arrangements, fearing two-week outage could put them at risk of action by Financial Conduct Authority

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Managed services could be key to connecting up siloed IT in Middle East organisations

  Organisations in the Middle East will increasingly look for managed services to connect up their IT as they embark on digital transformation

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework