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• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?

  SaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing

  An emerging approach to quantum security dubbed blind quantum computing may one day help spur mass adoption of quantum computing safely and securely, using technology that is already available today

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

  Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

• March 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error

  An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Meta outage disrupts social media globally

  Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have been downed in a brief service outage

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  HM Treasury signs AWS hosting environment management deal with Keysource

  HM Treasury has enlisted datacentre management services provider to help operate the AWS environment used to host cross-government spending data system

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Datacentres denied: West London server farm dispute prompts calls for UK planning system reform

  The government is under fire after dismissing a datacentre development in west London despite soaring demand for capacity - but how can we balance new development with protecting the UK’s green spaces?

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  UK government pledges £225m to fund University of Bristol AI supercomputer build with HPE

  The University of Bristol’s much-hyped AI supercomputer has secured hundreds of millions in government funding, and HPE has been confirmed as the project’s technology provider

• October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23

  Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres

  Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate

• September 22, 2023 22 Sep'23

  How ready does the world need to be for the quantum era?

  Great use cases may exist for quantum computing, but no one knows for sure how long they will need to wait for a production-ready machine

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Cisco snaps up Splunk in $28bn application observability deal

  The acquisition builds out Cisco’s observability portfolio, with AI-based full-stack observability for hybrid cloud environments

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Datacentre operators ‘hesitant’ over how to proceed with server farm builds as AI hype builds

  As the hype surrounding artificial intelligence enters a new phase with the rising enterprise and hyperscale interest in generative AI, operators are not sure how to proceed with new datacentre builds, it is claimed

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Node4 helps performing arts charity revamp staff home working setup with IT infrastructure overhaul

  Managed cloud services provider Node4 opens up about the work it has done to help make it easier for one of its long-standing clients to embrace remote working

• August 12, 2023 12 Aug'23

  Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk

  At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

  SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

  Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  SDIA applauds EU-led push to make datacentres reuse waste heat and report environmental data

  The European Parliament and European Council have finalised the text of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will see datacentre operators in member states forced to publicly disclose more environmental data and pressured to reuse their ...

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Climate change vs technology: Study suggests tech investments could mitigate environmental risks

  Bloomberg Media report, sponsored by investment firm Mubadala, highlights human impacts of various industry megatrends, including climate change and technology adoption

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  GDS goes serverless to bring personalisation to online government services with One Login

  GDS has opened up about the reasons why it’s opted for a serverless infrastructure to underpin One Login, and how it hopes the system will provide UK citizens with a more personalised experience

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  Mobile operator Three cuts datacentre cooling energy usage through EkkoSense deployment

  Mobile operator Three enlisted the help of EkkoSense to reduce the amount of energy used to cool four of its legacy datacentres as part of a cost- and carbon-cutting initiative

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  How Dell is future-proofing its business

  Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Research: Server farm size influences how concerned UK firms are with datacentre energy efficiency

  ASUS research highlights differing attitudes towards datacentre energy efficiency by UK firms depending on how big their server farm estate is

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  Ransomware operator turns their fire on two-year-old VMware bug

  A vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers that users should have patched in 2021 is now being exploited to spread ransomware

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Deci claims breakthrough inference performance on Intel Sapphire Rapids

  Israeli startup Deci claims GPU-like performance in running computer vision and natural language processing models on Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  CEF selects HPE Greenlake to build out digitisation strategy

  The electrical wholesaler plans to migrate to Equinix datacentres and use Greenlake to run IT services in the cloud

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

  HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  OpenSSL vulnerabilities ‘not as bad as feared’

  As previously trailed, OpenSSL patched two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, neither of them as impactful as had been feared

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer

  The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Gartner: Hero CIOs are needed again to save businesses

  During the pandemic, IT enabled businesses to remain operational. As the economic crisis worsens, business executives are once again reaching out to CIOs

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  ‘We must do better’ says Gelsinger on Intel’s latest results

  Chipmaker has reported a massive decline across its major business divisions

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Microsoft anticipates $3.3bn savings by extending server life

  Thanks to new software tools and better hardware, Microsoft plans to upgrade servers and network equipment every six years

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Four key need-to-knows about CXL

  Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Schneider Electric reinforces commitment to addressing datacentre skills gap with new courses

  Datacentre energy management company is adding more courses to its free online training portal to help close industry skills gap

• July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

  How Lenovo is making the transition into services

  Although Lenovo is late to the as-a-service game, it is making headway through its One Lenovo and services-led transformation strategies, says a top company executive

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches

  A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine

• 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

• 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 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 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes

  Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’

  Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Website owners urged to adopt ‘eco-standard’ to help cut internet-generated carbon emissions

  The Eco-Friendly Web Alliance has set its sights on preventing a further 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide being generated in the next decade by helping website operators to cut emissions

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Interview: How do you define IBM?

  It is the world’s oldest computer company, and it was once said you didn’t get fired for buying from Big Blue. But a lot has changed. Sreeram Visvanathan, CEO for UK&I, explains how IBM is reinventing itself

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

  Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming

• October 12, 2021 12 Oct'21

  Siemens Energy plots multi-petabyte datacentre migration with Google Cloud

  Energy technology company Siemens Energy is to downsize its datacentre footprint with an ambitious plan to move 2.6 petabytes of its business data to Google Cloud over 15 months