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Managing servers and operating systems
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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
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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
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May 25, 2017
25
May'17
Open19: LinkedIn's bid to lower barriers to open source datacentre tech adoption gathers pace
The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace
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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
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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
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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
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May 03, 2017
03
May'17
Enterprises predict cloud budget growth will outpace overall IT spend in 2017
451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report suggests enterprise IT buyers are feeling very optimistic about how much money they will get to spend on cloud and hosting technologies in 2017
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May 02, 2017
02
May'17
Uptime Institute research: 65% of enterprise applications still run in private datacentres
According to the Uptime Institute’s seventh annual industry survey, enterprise-owned datacentres and colocation facilities remain primary compute venue for many organisations
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April 28, 2017
28
Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 21, 2017
21
Apr'17
Research: OpenStack user satisfaction ratings drop, as adoption of the open source cloud rises
Use of OpenStack-powered clouds continues to grow across companies of all sizes, but customer satisfaction levels appear to have dropped, research shows
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April 20, 2017
20
Apr'17
Object storage services emerge as new cloud pricing battleground, claims 451 Research
IBM, Amazon, Google and others have all cut the price of their object storage services in recent months, suggesting the cloud price wars are entering a new phase, says 451 Research
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April 19, 2017
19
Apr'17
Equinix tops global colocation leader boards on coverage and connectivity grounds
Colocation giant Equinix emerges as the one to beat in Cloudscene’s inaugural rankings of globe’s biggest datacentre service providers
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April 18, 2017
18
Apr'17
Virtus Data Centres plots to expand Slough colocation footprint
Colocation provider sets out plans to expand its datacentre footprint in Slough, as demand for locally hosted cloud services grows
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April 11, 2017
11
Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies
The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
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March 27, 2017
27
Mar'17
AWS London users suffer "insufficient capacity" problems with T2 Micro Instances
Users of AWS's London-hosted T2 Micro Instances suffered capacity issues on Friday 24 March
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March 14, 2017
14
Mar'17
HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows
IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard
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March 13, 2017
13
Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal
Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union
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March 09, 2017
09
Mar'17
Rackspace to roll out managed service support for Google Cloud Platform in Q3 2017
Managed cloud company becomes first managed service provider partner for the Google Cloud Platform
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March 06, 2017
06
Mar'17
AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud disaster recovery
The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT
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February 28, 2017
28
Feb'17
White boxes set to shift server buying habits
Traditional server providers still have the lion’s share of the on-premise datacentre market, but original design manufacturers are now a major force
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February 16, 2017
16
Feb'17
Cisco sales fall as traditional product sales slump
Cisco's traditional product sales such as switches are falling, but revenues in emerging products in areas such as security are on the up
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February 15, 2017
15
Feb'17
Enterprise IT buyers shed light on server makers’ shortfalls in customer service and support
451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report sees IT buyers rate server and converged infrastructure makers on their approach to customer service and support
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February 14, 2017
14
Feb'17
Co-op Bank up for sale now legacy shift to IBM is complete
Bank put up for sale just days after it completed a multimillion-pound migration of its legacy banking platform into an IBM datacentre
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February 06, 2017
06
Feb'17
Dutch businesses have heads in the cloud
In the Netherlands, cloud computing is used by the central bank, large multinationals like Unilever, startups such as WeTransfer, and even a Dutch potato processing plant in China
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January 24, 2017
24
Jan'17
Stockholm offers sustainable datacentre safe haven to hyperscale cloud firms
Sweden's capital city looks to capitalise on recent country-wide tax breaks for datacentre operators, to encourage cloud and colocation firms to set up shop in its new environmentally-friendly business parks
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January 10, 2017
10
Jan'17
Equinix and Digital Realty reap M&A marketshare benefits in 2016, research shows
Synergy Research's latest datacentre-focused market tracker highlights how the global colocation sector is becoming a three-horse race
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January 05, 2017
05
Jan'17
HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems
The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations
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December 29, 2016
29
Dec'16
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2016
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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December 05, 2016
05
Dec'16
Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016
The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016
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November 23, 2016
23
Nov'16
HPE focuses on hybrid IT and IoT as revenue drops
CEO Meg Whitman continues on her quest to refocus Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the company posts its fourth-quarter results
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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November 07, 2016
07
Nov'16
HPE: The UK business one year after split
The headlines say one thing, but Marc Waters, UK and Ireland managing director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is confident CEO Meg Whitman’s strategy is paying off
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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
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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
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November 02, 2016
02
Nov'16
Network analytics gives mining firm a better view of its cloud
Mining equipment manufacturer Weir Minerals deployed Xangati's monitoring and analytics tools to manage its VMware-based cloud and virtual desktop environments
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November 01, 2016
01
Nov'16
Microsoft debuts Project Olympus to boost open source datacentre hardware development
Microsoft wants to give open source datacentre hardware developers earlier access to its designs to speed up the time it takes to bring new products to market with Project Olympus
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November 01, 2016
01
Nov'16
Lancaster University hails potential of AI software to cut datacentre power consumption
Lancaster University reveals details of its work to create an AI-based, self-assembling software system that could improve the efficiency of datacentres
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October 31, 2016
31
Oct'16
How software-defined networking can secure critical systems
SDN promises to bring the efficiency gains achieved in server virtualisation to networking, while also boosting security
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October 25, 2016
25
Oct'16
AI set to replace traditional IT administrators
Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms
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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
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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