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• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Component shortages and price hikes drag down fourth-quarter server shipments in Emea

  Ongoing semiconductor and DRAM component shortage is driving up server prices, prompting IT buyers to delay purchases, according to Gartner

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  VMware Cloud for AWS goes live in Amazon’s UK datacentres as hybrid cloud demand grows

  Technology tie-up between VMware and AWS continues to go from strength to strength as the pair confirm a European expansion of their combined hybrid cloud-enabling service

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres

  As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  CBRE: European colocation market adjusts to 'new' high-growth norms in 2017

  As the take-up and supply of datacentre capacity across Europe continues to hit new heights, CBRE claims the colocation market is entering a phase where high growth is becoming the "new normal"

• 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 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  IR35 dispute prompts mass walkout of IT contractors from MoD agency

  Public sector IT contractors leave UK Hydrographic Office en masse over IR35 clampdown, Computer Weekly understands

• 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 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre

  Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Singapore to pioneer tropical datacentre

  If successful, trial would prove that datacentres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38°C and humidity of up to, or exceeding, 90%

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Edge datacentres hailed as answer to latency concerns in IoT era

  With user demand for low-latency, high-performing applications, delegates at Datacloud Europe 2016 hail edge datacentres as the answer

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Lenovo expands x86 server production to Europe

  Chinese hardware manufacturer claims move will result in faster delivery times and lower costs for European customers

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  The OpenStack Foundation: Building enterprise trust in open-source clouds

  With HMRC and the European Commission emerging as OpenStack adopters, the OpenStack Foundation's CEO explains how it has set about winning over the enterprise with its open-source cloud platform

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Göteborg Energi outsources IT with €40m deal

  Nordic energy company will use outsourcing agreement as a platform to modernise its IT environment