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September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
VMworld 2017: How to change the face of legacy

If change is the only constant, the IT industry is the 21st century engine of change, relentlessly grinding out more features at a faster rate
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Enterprise appetites for cloud-based financial apps on the rise, Gartner research suggests

Research into corporate appetites for cloud-based financial apps suggest demand is growing faster than expected, claims Gartner
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report

New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff
September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17
DevOps salary survey highlights link between server farm size and practitioner pay

The Puppet 2017 DevOps Salary Report suggests practitioners working at larger firms, with sizeable server farms and low-level manual configuration management, get paid more

September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17
Self-preservation: The Gibraltar National Archives uses cloud to safeguard its history

The head of the Gibraltar National Archives discusses how cloud and archiving technologies are safe-guarding its history for future generations
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
Businesses that overlook ROI analysis are missing cost savings

Organisations have more chance of meeting their cost saving expectations following cloud migrations if they carry out ROI analysis before
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona
September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17
UK government sets to work on replicating the Digital Marketplace model overseas

Government procurement chiefs and digital champions share details of the work being done to help export the principles of the Digital Marketplace overseas
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub

Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017

September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Huddle claims new ownership means "business as usual" for public sector customers

UK cloud collaboration firm Huddle confirms Turn/River as new majority shareholder, and claims the tie-up will help accelerate its growth into new markets. But what of its existing customers?
September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17
Virgin Media owner Liberty Global rolls out Juniper NFV

Media delivery company Liberty Global is to use Juniper Networks vMX virtual routers to improve network performance and scale
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
VMware Cloud on AWS pricing will vary in APAC

Prices for the hybrid cloud service in Asia-Pacific will differ based on market differences such as scale and maturity in adopting virtualised infrastructure
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
VMware, Pivotal and Google team up on containers

VMware, Pivotal and Google have developed a service to ease deployment of containers on VMware vSphere and Google Cloud Platform
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
DataCentred goes into administration after £1.8m losses

Administrators appointed after datacentre and cloud operator recorded losses of almost £1.8m in the last financial year
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
Saudi Telecom Company creates cloud computing giant

The IT joint venture in Saudi Arabia will drive the digitisation of government services
August 28, 2017 28 Aug'17
VMware making bigger push into cloud, cyber security

The virtualisation bigwig is making it easier for VMware customers to adopt public cloud services, starting with a partnership with Amazon Web Services
August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17
CBRE: Cloud drives massive take-up of European colocation space in Q2

Real estate consultancy's latest look at the state of the European colocation market suggests cloud is continuing to drive supply and demand for datacentre space across the continent
August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17
How AT&T embraced the telecoms technology transition

AT&T’s CIO of network and shared services, Sorabh Saxena, discusses how to reskill telecoms engineers and exploit open standards as the operator embraces the future of networking services provision
August 21, 2017 21 Aug'17
Kolos co-CEO: Community support ‘key’ to make world’s biggest datacentre plans a reality

Norwegian startup Kolos recently went public with its plans to build the world’s biggest datacentre, and the company’s co-CEO explains why community support matters to a project like this
August 18, 2017 18 Aug'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Awards nominations now open until 31 August

Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
Enterprises will need more bandwidth than public internet

As enterprises continue to digitise their operations over the next few years, their demand for data and bandwidth capacity will massively increase, says Equinix
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
Facebook sets out plans to open 10th datacentre by 2019

Social media giant to build new datacentre in New Albany, Ohio, to future-proof its infrastructure in the face of growing user demand
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway

Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17
Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing to lower barriers to HPC using cloud

Microsoft hits cloud acquisition trail to make high-performance computing accessible to a wider pool of enterprises
August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17
Microsoft to open new Azure regions in Australia in public sector push

Hosted by Canberra Data Centres, Microsoft’s additional Azure datacentre regions will provide the necessary security controls for handling government data in Australia
August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17
Hulu joins the BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix in opting to run its streaming services on AWS

US streaming firm Hulu is opting out of investing in its own datacentres by moving more of its workloads to the AWS public cloud
August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17
CIO interview: Mike Proudlock, interim head of IT, The Royal College of Surgeons

The Royal College of Surgeons has started a cloud-centric transformation programme to ensure the organisation is fit for the working challenges of the 21st century
August 09, 2017 09 Aug'17
Huddle pulls news of private equity deal as shareholders rage over payout size

Huddle is thought to be revising its private equity payouts to shareholders, after past and present employees describe current offer as a ‘slap in the face’
August 07, 2017 07 Aug'17
Forrester warns CIOs of cloud market consolidation risks and rewards

Market watcher's latest cloud report outlines how the consolidation of the cloud software and infrastructure market can mean good and bad news for enterprises
August 04, 2017 04 Aug'17
ICO highlights challenge Slack-like tools pose to public sector FOI request compliance

The Information Commissioner’s Office outlines how the growing use of cloud-based communication channels could complicate how public sector organisations respond to Freedom of Information requests
August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17
Synergy research emphasises gulf between higher and lower ends of cloud provider market

Research data for the second quarter highlights the significant and growing hold the big cloud firms have on the off-premise infrastructure services market
July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17
Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system

The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled
July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17
OVH opens first UK datacentre in south London

French cloud provider OVH has opened the doors on its first datacentre in the UK, slightly later than planned
July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17
AWS emerges as a bright spot in Amazon’s ‘mixed’ Q2 results

Amazon.com’s earnings per share failed to meet analyst expectations, but the retail giant’s cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength
July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17
Outcome of judicial review into Apple's Irish datacentre dispute delayed until 12 October

Apple faces a further three-month delay to see if it will be given the go-ahead to proceed with its much-delayed bid to build an €850m datacentre in Athenry, County Galway
July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17
CIF gears up to target public sector cloud

Cloud Industry Forum wants to help the UK government achieve its digital strategy, but working with government is still a big challenge for many providers
July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17
BP broadens public cloud strategy by adopting Microsoft Azure for data analytics

Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes
July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17
APAC public cloud market to surpass $10bn in 2017

Led by growing demand for cloud infrastructure services, the public cloud market is now dominated by Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba, which is expanding its footprint outside China
July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17
IBM confirms opening of two further UK datacentres

Big Blue is making good on its pledge to triple the size of its UK cloud datacentre capacity by opening two sites in London
July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17
Oracle expands Cloud at Customer, adds 1,000 cloud sales Emea staff

Supplier adds SaaS elements to hybrid cloud service and aims to recruit 1,000 staff in Emea to accelerate cloud business
July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17
Microsoft, Baidu team up on self-driving technology

The two tech giants will drive the use of the Azure cloud computing service to power autonomous vehicle projects outside China
July 17, 2017 17 Jul'17
Norway’s Railway Directorate moves fully to the cloud

Norway’s railway regulator is following the government’s advice and moving IT into the cloud
July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17
Google opens UK datacentre region to deliver low-latency cloud connections to enterprise

Internet search giant declares its UK datacentre region open for business, and promises users improved application performance
July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17
Home Office confirmed as early adopter of Oracle’s UK cloud region

The Home Office is to be one of the first public sector organisations to access cloud services from Oracle’s UK cloud region
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Apple to build second European datacentre in Denmark later this year

Consumer electronics giant confirms plans to start building a second, renewably-powered datacentre in Denmark during the fourth quarter of 2017
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims
July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17
Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs in cloud-related company rejig

Microsoft confirms job cuts and says affected staff have been notified that their jobs are either under threat or set to be made redundant
July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17
IDC: On-premise infrastructure spend will continue to fall in 2017 as cloud demand soars

IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments
July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17
Equinix expands its European datacentre footprint with AM4 opening in Amsterdam

Colocation giant is building out its datacentre capacity in Amsterdam by opening another facility, geared towards helping enterprises embrace the multi-cloud consumption model
July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17
Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours

Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations
July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17
Judge defers ruling in Apple Irish datacentre case until end of July

Apple must wait until the end of the month to hear if its bid to build a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, will get the go-ahead
June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17
Dreamscape to merge with Singapore hosting provider in regional expansion

The Australian hosting provider will tap Vodien’s infrastructure to address the needs of mobile-first businesses in Southeast Asia that are going online for the first time
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
The big four cloud firms are set for price war over serverless computing, suggests 451 Research

Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
Ocado Technology completes two-week self-driving van trial in Greenwich

Ocado Technology opens up about how self-driving vans could revolutionise grocery deliveries in urban areas in the years to come
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access
June 27, 2017 27 Jun'17
French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
Dubai-based logistics company automates backup through cloud

Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
AA blames password reset email glitch on ‘internal error’

Automobile Association apologises for sending out password reset confirmation emails to a small selection of customers in error, which led some to assume the company may have been hacked
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
Court ruling on Apple’s Irish datacentre planning dispute delayed by ‘shortage of judges’

The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged
June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17
AMD fleshes out EPYC datacentre server processor strategy

AMD is preparing to go head-to-head once more with Intel in the datacentre, with the release of its EPYC server processor family
June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17
Analyst tips Microsoft Azure to overtake AWS as cloud revenue market leader in 2017

US analyst house Pacific Crest claims Microsoft is on course to surpass AWS in revenue terms later this year
June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17
Salford City Council adopts Microsoft Azure to deliver hybrid cloud vision

Greater Manchester-based local authority, Salford City Council, is following up its foray into private cloud by adopting Microsoft Azure
June 19, 2017 19 Jun'17
Hovis boosts job applications after HR tech roll-out

Baker and flour miller expects a quick payback from HR technology project
June 15, 2017 15 Jun'17
Google spins up Google Cloud Platform in Singapore

The search giant’s Singapore cloud region is its third one in Asia-Pacific, underscoring its ambition to challenge Amazon and Microsoft in a fast-growing public cloud market
June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17
Lancaster University begins datacentre research to establish cloud latency causes

Researchers, in collaboration with Microsoft and others, want to stamp out data processing delays in datacentres to improve user experience and energy efficiency
June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17
Alibaba Cloud expands footprint in APAC

Chinese cloud service provider Alibaba is opening datacentres in India and Indonesia as part of ongoing efforts to ramp up its presence in the region
June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17
British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?

BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that
June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17
Avvo CTO: Tech leaders must embrace failure to get best work from DevOps teams

Speaking at the Lead Developer conference in London, Avvo CTO Kevin Goldsmith warns tech leaders not to punish DevOps teams for project failures
June 07, 2017 07 Jun'17
DevOps success relies on supportive and communicative senior leaders, research shows

The 2017 State of DevOps Report highlights why supportive, communicative and visionary senior leadership is a must for agile software development to succeed
June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17
Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal

About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement
June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17
Insurance giant Allianz opens up about how DevOps success is fueling its move to cloud

The German financial services giant reveals details of how a year-long push to embrace DevOps has set the scene for a move to cloud
June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17
Hyperscale cloud giants sought as tenants for Scotland's 'largest' datacentre build

Developers of the newly opened site are hoping to follow Ireland's lead by positioning Scotland as a place where the hyperscale cloud giants can set up shop
June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17
Still time for DevOps latecomers to gain ground on early adopters, claims Dora CEO

DevOps research and assessment CEO Nicole Forsgren claims there is still time for enterprises late to the DevOps game to play catch-up
June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17
OVH makes foray into APAC cloud market

With its regional headquarters in Melbourne and datacentres in Singapore and Sydney, the French cloud supplier plans to go after startups and enterprises
May 30, 2017 30 May'17
British Airways counts cost of major bank holiday IT system outage

Share price of British Airways' parent company plummets after power supply issue at "local" datacentre grounds flights at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend
May 25, 2017 25 May'17
CBRE: Demand for colocation space in London holds firm in face of Brexit

The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50
May 25, 2017 25 May'17
Rackspace senior management reshuffle continues with new CEO appointment

Rackspace confirms new CEO appointment, six months after being acquired by private equity house Apollo Global
May 23, 2017 23 May'17
ChefConf 2017: How DevOps sets enterprises on course for digital transformation success

To mark the start of the ChefConf 2017 user summit in Austin, Texas, Chef CTO Adam Jacob shares his thoughts on how early DevOps adopters are now on course to become “high-velocity” technology companies
May 19, 2017 19 May'17
Manx Telecom streamlines its business with VMware NFV

After deploying an NFV platform to replace its IMS service, Isle of Man-based telco has seen substantial improvements to its business agility and processes
May 19, 2017 19 May'17
Microsoft to open African cloud datacentre region in 2018

Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365
May 18, 2017 18 May'17
Financial services firms urged to consider ramping up cloud investments

DTCC whitepaper claims financial services firms that shun cloud are at heightened risk of running into resiliency, security and performance issues.
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
SAP wants to be cloud leader in APAC by 2020

The business software supplier expects its cloud portfolio to contribute at least a third of its revenues in a region that includes key markets such as Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
Bombardier signs $700m IBM cloud deal to support business turnaround efforts

Canadian vehicle manufacturer inks IBM cloud deal to support five-year push to cut costs and improve efficiency
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
VMware expands support for Horizon Cloud to include Microsoft Azure

Virtualisation giant strikes up public cloud partnership with Microsoft to support users that want to run their business applications and desktops in Azure
May 16, 2017 16 May'17
Colt extends high bandwidth network into Finland

Network and datacentre provider will expand its high bandwidth IQ Network to Helsinki to offer pan-Eurasian and local connectivity
May 15, 2017 15 May'17
Why IT needs effective monitoring for cloud applications

IaaS and PaaS free up IT from running day-to-day administration tasks, but the cloud can become a black box, limiting visibility
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience

The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
May 10, 2017 10 May'17
Orange eyes APAC cloud market, expands footprint in Malaysia

French IT service provider Orange rolls out public cloud services in the APAC region and plans to grow its workforce in Malaysia by 70%
May 10, 2017 10 May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance

The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
May 10, 2017 10 May'17
Edward Snowden: Closed public cloud platforms risk "disempowering" enterprises

NSA whistleblower tells OpenStack Summit, via video link, that investing in closed public cloud platforms can lead to users parting with more than just their money
May 09, 2017 09 May'17
OpenStack Foundation hails second coming of private cloud

Enterprises have come to view private cloud as a “toxic” phrase, but new ways and means of building deployments is changing that, according to the OpenStack Foundation and its stakeholders
May 09, 2017 09 May'17
OpenStack Foundation slams claims open source cloud platform's days are numbered

OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce dismisses predictions around the impending demise of OpenStack
May 05, 2017 05 May'17
HSBC adopts cloud-first strategy to solving big data business problems

David Knott, chief architect at banking giant HSBC, tells Computer Weekly about how machine learning, big data analytics and cloud are changing the way it does business
May 05, 2017 05 May'17
Oracle outlines German cloud datacentre expansion plans

Database software giant claims investment in German datacentres is being fuelled by growing demand for its cloud services in Europe
May 04, 2017 04 May'17
Vodafone selects Mirantis for network virtualisation programme

Mobile network operator will use managed OpenStack based on Mirantis’ open cloud platform as part of its network virtualisation programme
May 04, 2017 04 May'17
Dynamics 365 joins Azure and Office 365 in Microsoft UK datacentre

Hosting Dynamics 365 with Azure and Office 365 is part of Microsoft’s big cloud upsell
May 03, 2017 03 May'17
Container technology forces rethink of app development

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst touts the role of open source in easing the transition to container-based applications built on microservices