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July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18
Goonhilly Earth Station sets out plans to open green colocation datacentre in 2018

Owners of the space satellite communications hub in Cornwall are drawing on the site’s network links to court colocation clients
July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18
CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research

Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages
July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18
Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Southeast Asia playbook

Alibaba Cloud is working closely with local customers in joint innovation projects, and has started to launch new services for Chinese and international customers simultaneously to narrow the service gap
July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18
New deals bolster IBM’s European cloud business

IBM has signed up a number of new customers for its European cloud, focusing on the platform and software services in the IBM public cloud

June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18
Formula One switches from on-premise to machine learning on AWS

Formula One plans to use advanced analytics to improve the data it can show to motor racing fans
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
Google courts Hollywood creative community with Los Angeles cloud datacentre region

Google is making a concerted effort to win over the media and entertainment industry with its cloud offerings by pairing the opening of a new datacentre region with services tailored towards Hollywood creatives
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
UK tech startup wants businesses to share their surplus compute capacity to run its cloud

UK-based startup DADI is taking on the hyperscale giants in a bid to “democratise” the cloud and create an internet that is majority owned by the public
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
IT decision-makers increasingly opt for cloud-native architectures

The world of IT is now much more multi-platform and the underlying architecture is cloud-native, according to a new survey from Cloud Foundry
June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18
Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services
June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18
Barclays banks on DevOps to support 'all-in' move to AWS public cloud

Barclays Bank reveals details of its plans to go all-in on the AWS public cloud through adopting the principles of DevOps

June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18
Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres
June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18
UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

Public sector-focused cloud provider has launched a standalone division, dubbed UKCloudX, to oversee its efforts to aid in the fight against cybe rcrime through the roll-out of its cloud platform
June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18
Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime
June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18
Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?

With the hyperscale cloud giants showing a growing willingness to build and own their own datacentres, where does this leave the colocation community? Panellists at Datacloud Europe 2018 give their verdict
June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18
Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows

Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue
June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18
After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise

Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted?
June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18
Skills gaps slow business cloud adoption, research shows

Public cloud provider Skytap highlights the toll skills gaps take on cloud migrations
June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18
Complex pricing hinders enterprise assessment of AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud IoT hubs

451 Research claims the complex IoT pricing models favoured by the hyperscale cloud giants are making life difficult for enterprise IT departments
May 31, 2018 31 May'18
Retail sector flagged as slow to adopt cloud technologies in Bitglass research

The fourth annual Bitglass cloud adoption survey reveals enterprise appetite for off-premise technologies is continuing to rise, but some industries are moving more slowly than others
May 30, 2018 30 May'18
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research uses open source clouds to aid cancer research

OICR explains why it is backing open source software and commodity hardware to help accelerate the pace of cancer research across the globe
May 29, 2018 29 May'18
Save the Children International uses Microsoft Azure to bolster cross-border charity work

Graham Kent, director of IT shared services at Save the Children International, talks about using Microsoft Azure to boost cross-border collaboration between the charity’s member organisations and present a more united front to the world
May 25, 2018 25 May'18
Canonical founder calls out OpenStack suppliers for ‘lack of focus’ on datacentre cost savings

Mark Shuttleworth says the OpenStack community needs to open up about the economics of using the open source cloud platform to avoid turning users off
May 24, 2018 24 May'18
From open clouds to open infrastructure: OpenStack's evolution continues

OpenStack is embarking on a push to position itself as a lot more than just an open source cloud software provider, with forays into containers and continuous integration tools, as enterprises continue to demand their infrastructure do more
May 24, 2018 24 May'18
England and Wales Cricket Board to improve players’ medical data

Cricketers’ medical images will be stored securely in an independent clinical archive, enabling clinicians to access medical data and make treatment decisions more quickly
May 22, 2018 22 May'18
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit

Closing out the first day keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical co-founder Mark Shuttleworth hit out at the firm's "more costly" competitors
May 22, 2018 22 May'18
Thailand’s Ascend Money finds agility with OpenShift

Besides implementing Red Hat’s OpenShift application platform, Ascend Money adopted an open source governance model to keep IT teams aligned with business goals
May 18, 2018 18 May'18
Executive interview: Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Computer Weekly speaks to Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation about how open source is a key ingredient of digital transformation
May 16, 2018 16 May'18
Google opens third availability zone in Singapore

The latest Google Cloud Platform availability zone in Singapore follows recent efforts by rivals to extend their lead in the region
May 15, 2018 15 May'18
Oracle claims positive traction for autonomous database in ASEAN

Oracle’s newly minted autonomous database could leave database administrators unemployed, but that has not stopped a Thai payment services provider from jumping onto the bandwagon
May 11, 2018 11 May'18
NHS Business Services Authority trials AWS chatbot tech to field customer calls in contact centre

Darren Curry, chief digital officer of the NHS Business Services Authority, shares details of how trialling the use of cloud-based chatbots in its contact centres has boosted staff morale and efficiency
May 10, 2018 10 May'18
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels hails ‘egalitarian’ impact of cloud on enterprise IT

Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels claims that the “egalitarian” impact of cloud on IT means enterprises now need to find a new point of competitive difference
May 10, 2018 10 May'18
Apple pulls plug on €850m Irish datacentre project after three-year planning delay

Apple has confirmed it is abandoning its bid to build a datacentre on the west coast of Ireland, blaming three years of legal challenges and planning appeals that have blighted the project
May 10, 2018 10 May'18
Ryanair takes full flight in the AWS public cloud

Low-cost airline Ryanair is on course to go all-in on the Amazon Web Services public cloud, as part of its push to boost the agility and cost effectiveness of its operations
May 08, 2018 08 May'18
Red Hat teams up with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, container push

Building on a strategic alliance first announced in 2015, the two software companies are working together on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure to reduce the complexity of managing containers in a hybrid cloud environment
May 04, 2018 04 May'18
Twitter plots Hadoop cluster migration to Google Cloud Platform

Social media giant plans to offload some of its Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud Platform to boost the resiliency of its infrastructure
May 04, 2018 04 May'18
GDPR prompts data migration U-turn from public cloud to corporate datacentres, finds Forrester

Forrester Research’s latest public cloud adoption report shines a light on how enterprise attitudes to using corporate datacentres are changing as the GDPR deadline approaches
May 02, 2018 02 May'18
Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech

Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place
May 02, 2018 02 May'18
Enterprise readiness for multi-cloud adoption is low across Europe, suggests IDC research

IDC suggests multi-cloud adoption will become the norm across European enterprises, but there is much work to be done before this becomes a reality
April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18
AWS vs Microsoft vs Google: Weighing up the financial results of the big cloud three

Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all posted favourable financial results this week, as enterprise appetites for cloud services show no signs of slowing, but what does this mean for suppliers outside of the big three?
April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18
GDPR: Put your data in Azure cloud, says Microsoft chief

Tech giant reports strong growth in its cloud business in third-quarter 2018 fiscal results
April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18
ScottishPower opens up about its two-year datacentre downsizing and migration project

The team behind ScottishPower’s recent two-year push to downsize and migrate its primary datacentre describe the project’s challenges and successes
April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18
Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm
April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18
Google hails positive economic impact of US datacentre growth

Google claims the expansion of its datacentre portfolio in recent years has generated thousands of jobs and seen it contribute billions of dollars to the US economy
April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18
How application container technology is helping YMCA open up access to education

Youth charity YMCA is in the midst of a push to reduce its reliance on paper-based education aids, with the help of Droplet Computing’s application container technology
April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18
TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres

TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth
April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18
AWS commits to improving cloud skills of 100,000 people in Europe during 2018

Amazon Web Services commits to equipping 100,000 people across Europe with cloud skills to help speed up adoption of off-premise technologies and services across the continent
April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18
Alibaba to set up digital hub in Thailand

Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba is expanding its Southeast Asian footprint with a new digital hub east of Bangkok that is expected to boost Thailand’s digital credentials
April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18
Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises
April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18
Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project
April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18
Investments in skills, infrastructure and SMEs needed to help UK data economy hit new heights

The UK data economy may struggle to reach its full growth potential between now and 2025 unless action is taken, suggests research commissioned by datacentre operator Digital Realty