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Managing servers and operating systems

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases

  TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Fear of cloud servers fading fast among UK firms

  Research shows traditionally risk-averse UK firms are being persuaded by the benefits of co-location, with more than 20% of servers now outsourced

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Crown Hosting Service to save £530m from government IT bill by 2018

  Government Digital Service to establish new Crown Hosting Service to consolidate hosting across Whitehall, saving £530m per year by 2018

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom

  Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  RBS spends £80m to link its multiple mainframes better

  The Royal Bank of Scotland will dedicate £80m of its massive IT budget to eliminate problems caused by its mainframe infrastructure

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Google offers Street View of datacentres

  Google offers Street View of its datacentres and a virtual tour of how users' data is stored, with an emphasis on security practices

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe: Horizon Suite to help IT manage corporate assets on Apple iOS

  VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers’ mobile devices including on Apple iPhones securely

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe 2012 kicks off in Barcelona

  VMworld Europe 2012 opens with updates from VMware on the cloud and new management suites

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Complex and non-transparent Oracle licensing costing firms millions

  Companies virtualising Oracle databases with VMware platforms face millions in penalties over non-compliance

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Case study: How to virtualise SAP and migrate from IBM onto x86

  At VMworld Europe Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores gave an overview of how it virtualised an SAP environment and migrated from an IBM mainframe to x86

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Google opens €75m energy-efficient datacentre facility in Dublin

  Google’s new €75m Dublin datacentre facility that that uses air-cooling for energy efficency is now operational

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Facebook engineer builds heatmap tool for datacentre troubleshooting

  A Facebook engineer has built a server-monitoring tool using heatmaps to assess the status of cache systems and fix datacentre problems

• July 02, 2012 02 Jul'12

  Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: What features get users' thumbs up

  Admins who have downloaded Windows Server 2012 RC give thumbs up to the new version of Hyper-V, inclusion of high-end features in free Hyper-V, and shared nothing live migration.

• June 07, 2012 07 Jun'12

  Microsoft launches support for Linux on Windows Azure

  Microsoft’s cloud platform Windows Azure now supports Linux-based operating systems and languages such as Python and PHP. It includes IaaS capabilities to build hybrid cloud.

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Microsoft volume licensing costs to increase up to 33.5%

  Microsoft will increase its volume licensing prices in the UK between 7.5% and 33.5% starting July 1 to maintain price consistency owing to the sustained currency difference in Europe.

• December 19, 2011 19 Dec'11

  Virtualisation technologies: hits and misses of 2011

  Amid a slew of virtualisation products and management suites that emerged in 2011, some products such as Spring platform impressed users, while others such as VMware MVP didn’t.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  VMware vSphere 5 uptake slow among users

  VMware vSphere 5 boasts of cloud-based features and monster VMs, but its uptake is lagging because of user satisfaction with vSphere 4.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  VMware-based server consolidation yields long-term savings

  Avis achieved long-term cost savings and efficiencies with a VMware-based server consolidation. Its transformation won the Best Virtualisation and Server Consolidation Project award at VMworld Europe.

• August 18, 2011 18 Aug'11

  Citrix buys RingCube for desktop personalisation: News in brief

  Citrix has acquired RingCube, a desktop personalisation software provider, for an undisclosed sum. Citrix will add RingCube’s capabilities to its XenDesktop platform.