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• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Rackspace upgrade to save $12m with Scality object storage

  Cloud services giant Rackspace brings in Scality object storage in a move that slashes 4,000 boxes from its server count as it separates compute and storage

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers

  In a whitepaper co-authored by a number of open source advocates, the OpenStack Foundation makes the case for taking a teamwork approach to tackling the barriers to widespread edge computing adoption

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  IT managers in the dark over work-life balance pressure of on-call work, research shows

  PagerDuty's inaugural work-life balance report highlights how unspoken frustrations about punishing on-call schedules can contribute towards employee attrition and workplace stress

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

  Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: ANZ ups ante on cloud services and software

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand are bullish on IT spending, particularly in cloud infrastructure services, cloud applications and all-flash storage arrays

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre: AWS, Google and Microsoft rush to patch cloud chip flaws

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Claire House Children’s Hospice opens up about its digital transformation triumphs

  Claire House Children’s Hospice took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards by sharing details of how technology is helping it achieve its aim of reaching every family who needs its help across the north-west of England

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2017

  Over the course of 2017, we saw hyperscale cloud giants continuing to invest in their UK presence, as well as Apple’s ongoing planning permission delays in Ireland and the disruption caused by the datacentre downtime from British Airways

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

  The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

• December 15, 2017 15 Dec'17

  AMD hits pay dirt in the cloud with EPYC server platform

  Chipmaker AMD is looking to regain lost ground with its EPYC server platform, and it seems the cloud provider community is getting on board with its plans

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  Enterprises urged to embrace public cloud after latest technology innovations

  Due to the latest technology innovations in public cloud by the major providers, IDC has underlined the importance of this infrastructure

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Interview: Lee James, CTO, Rackspace

  Lee James spent the early part of his career on the user side, deploying clouds and vSphere for his employers, before moving to the supplier side, first at Computacenter and now at Rackspace

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  London colocation market on course for record-breaking year of take-up, CBRE data shows

  CBRE quarterly report into European colocation growth trends shows demand for London datacentre space is holding firm in the face of Brexit

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Executive interview: Antonio Neri, HPE

  We speak to the man taking over from Meg Whitman as CEO of HPE about how he will continue the company's turnaround

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels urges enterprises to get their encryption act together

  During the closing keynote of AWS Re:Invent 2017, Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, warned enterprises of the perils of overlooking encryption

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  As Meg Whitman steps down, HPE fleshes out hybrid ambitions

  Hybrid IT represents a $100bn business, and is a segment HPE has set its sights on

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

  The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  HPE hails progress in using AI to build autonomous datacentres

  Hardware giant claims to be the first in the industry to bring artificial intelligence-based infrastructure management software to market that can predict datacentre problems before humans can

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Budget 2017: TechUK demands datacentre energy reform to stop post-Brexit market slump

  TechUK airs fears over long-term growth and prosperity of UK datacentre market post-Brexit, without urgent government help on rising energy costs

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  Public cloud revenue grows 28% for first half of 2017, research finds

  Revenue from public cloud services grew by 28% for the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2016, says IDC

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Microsoft previews pay-for-use Kubernetes on Azure

  Microsoft regards containerisation as the next phase in enterprise architectures, and is now offering Kubernetes on Azure

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world

  As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  A tenth of datacentre managers shun use of DCIM tools, survey finds

  The findings of a new report by Siemens and Intel suggests datacentre managers are taking a reactive approach to keeping on monitoring and managing the health of their infrastructure

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Lack of transparency obscures public cloud costs

  IT administrators admit they are not making the most of their cloud storage and computing resources. Costs can escalate quickly if virtual machines are not managed properly

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  China and Russia set to drive growth in PC market in 2018, says Gartner

  The market will be buoyed by stronger spending on business PCs in Russia and adoption of Windows 10 in China, according to Gartner

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment

  Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  Rackspace expands APAC footprint, eyes multi-cloud opportunity

  The managed cloud service provider has established a new office in Singapore to tap into the growing APAC market for cloud-based infrastructure

• October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17

  Brother moves core internal applications to Amazon cloud

  Manufacturer Brother has moved its back-office and customer-facing systems to the Amazon cloud using public and hybrid models

• September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17

  Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays

  Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry

• September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17

  Cern calls on industry to collaborate on its datacentre challenges

  Particle accelerator lab has set out a plan, inviting the industry to help it develop next-generation IT to support science

• 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 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

• 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 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  Automation and software-defined IT can bridge server skills gap

  New research from 451 Group has identified a shortfall in server skills, but IT admins appear less willing to adopt tech helpers such as automation

• 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

  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 02, 2017 02 Aug'17

  British Airways online check-in systems hit by another IT failure

  Passengers complain of queues, delays and flight cancellations after airline's check-in systems suffer temporary outage.

• 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 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 04, 2017 04 Jul'17

  How machine learning is changing IT service management

  BMC looks like it is eyeing up CA in a deal to power its digital strategy. We assess the changes in IT service management

• 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

• 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 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  British Army draws on infrastructure refresh and automation to power DevOps drive

  Army opens up about how a move to adopt a software-defined datacentre setup has helped DevOps to take hold in the organisation

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Case study: Future Facilities trials VR to pinpoint datacentre performance problems

  Datacentre performance simulation software provider Future Facilities opens up about its virtual reality trials, and how the technology could change the way the entire industry operates

• 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 12, 2017 12 Jun'17

  Wickes customers hit by ‘system-wide’ online ordering problems

  Computer Weekly understands a “system-wide” issue is affecting the home improvement firm's online delivery bookings, as well as its click-and-collect services