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• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Datacentre capacity demand remains strong, fuelling continued growth of secondary colo hubs in EMEA

  Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker report from DC Byte and Knight Frank shows demand for capacity across EMEA is holding firm and fuelling growth of secondary hubs

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Thomson Reuters fleshes out multicloud strategy with Oracle application migration deal

  Multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters has added Oracle to its roster of cloud suppliers, as it seeks to make part of its tax application portfolio cloud native

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  SAP invests €250m in UK economy

  Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  Kao Data claims UK first with push to ditch diesel for biofuel in datacentre backup generators

  Harlow-based colocation player claims its on course to become the first datacentre operator in the UK to ditch diesel in favour of biofuel in its backup power generators

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Financial services sector’s cloud use set for more regulatory scrutiny on resilience grounds

  Financial stability report by Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee raises red flag about banks’ growing reliance on a small number of cloud service providers

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Secureworks sets up in EU datacentre for XDR services

  New datacentre location helps Secureworks’ customers meet EU data residency requirements

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021

  Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  Kaseya apologises for extended downtime after ransom attack

  CEO of Kaseya apologises after pushing back the restoration of the firm’s VSA service following a REvil ransomware attack

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC

  A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Swisscom embarks on public cloud migration with AWS to power 5G innovation

  Switzerland-based telco Swisscom has named AWS its preferred public cloud partner to power its digital transformation plans

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation

  Public sector-focused IT supplier UKCloud has had its commitment to ensuring its customers are procuring services from a socially conscious provider verified by the publication of an independent report

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site

  Tech giant Apple has requested a five-year extension to the planning permission deadline for its abandoned datacentre in Ireland, as politicians call for the mothballed site to be put to use

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans

  Database software giant signs a deal with Deutsche Bank to support the financial services company’s ongoing hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market

  Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations

  Software giant offers financial incentives to longstanding on-premise software customers that opt to move more of their workloads to its cloud platform

• June 21, 2021 21 Jun'21

  Opera house shuns cloud for Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure

  The Royal Opera House considered moving all its infrastructure to the cloud, but a hybrid setup with Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure came in 35% cheaper

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace

  The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  IBM Financial Services for Cloud initiative wins support of more than 100 collaborators

  IBM’s bid to build a sector-specific cloud platform to accelerate the adoption of off-premise technologies among financial services companies continues to gather pace

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Travelport makes AWS preferred cloud supplier to oversee its public cloud migration

  Travel retail company Travelport has turned to AWS to help bolster the performance and scalability of its flagship holiday booking platform

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push

  International private healthcare provider is on a multi-year, cloud-led digital transformation push with the help of long-time tech collaborator Microsoft

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Equinix secures additional funding for global hyperscale datacentre builds

  Colocation giant Equinix is embarking on a series of limited liability partnerships with long-standing investment partner GIC to ramp up the number of hyperscale datacentres in its global portfolio

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Covid-19: AWS research points to pandemic-induced ‘shortcomings’ in enterprise IT strategies

  Amazon Web Services research shines a light on the toll that the pandemic has taken on European enterprises and their digital transformation plans

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Cohesity brings DataProtect backup-as-a-service to Europe via AWS

  Scale-out backup appliance pioneer adds backup-as-a-service from a virtual machine on customer premises

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use

  Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service have renewed a memorandum of understanding for the continued use of the supplier’s cloud infrastructure and applications

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  India’s public cloud spending on a roll

  Software as a service made up the lion’s share of overall public cloud spending in India last year, followed by cloud-based infrastructure and platforms as organisations look to build digital agility amid the pandemic

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Whirlpool deepens Google Cloud partnership with SAP off-premise migration plan

  Home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool is expanding beyond simply using Google Cloud’s productivity tools as its digital transformation plans continue apace

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19

  Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre

  Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Homeware retailer vidaXL signs three-year Google Cloud deal to enable SAP systems migration

  Netherlands-based international homeware retailer vidaXL taps up Google Cloud for SAP systems migration

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  NHS Education for Scotland defends 'decade-long' public cloud deal with AWS

  The training arm of NHS Scotland has come under fire from members of the public sector IT supplier community over its decision to award a 10-year cloud contract to AWS

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  GDPR-readiness of EU Cloud Code of Conduct wins backing of European data protection authorities

  The EU Cloud Code of Conduct, which aims to help IT buyers source GDPR-compliant cloud services, has found favour with the European Data Protection Board

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns

  The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Google to shift cloud compute tasks between datacentres based on green power availability

  Internet giant Google debuts capability that makes it possible to shift compute workloads between datacentres based on the regional availability of renewable, carbon-free power sources

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  AWS sets out plans to expand re/Start cloud skills programme across more of the UK and Ireland

  Hot on the heels of Amazon’s pledge to create 10,000 jobs across the UK in 2021, its cloud division is planning to expand the geographical coverage of its long-standing skills builder programme

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Amazon to create 10,000 new UK jobs in 2021 across online retail and cloud computing divisions

  Online retail giant goes public with plans to create 10,000 new jobs in UK and embark on a retraining plan for existing staff who may want to pursue employment opportunities outside the company later down the line

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  PayPal expands multi-year Google Cloud partnership as Covid-19 prompts spike in online payments

  Payment platform app provider publicly commits to moving more of its workloads to the Google Cloud Platform as consumer demand for online payment options soar

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  VMware names Raghu Raghuram as CEO to guide company through Dell Technologies spin-off

  Several months on from the departure of ex-VMware chief Pat Gelsinger, the virtualisation giant names Raghu Raghuram as his permanent successor

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers

  Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Irish datacentre industry urged to throw its weight behind country’s greener electricity grid push

  Host in Ireland tells industry players to work with the government and other stakeholders to boost the sustainability of the country’s electricity grid for the sake of the sector’s continued growth

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Premier League promotes football analytics with Oracle Cloud

  From season 2021-22, the Premier League will provide in-match statistics and analysis for fans, made possible by Oracle Cloud

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Dell Technologies World: Amex CEO on how Covid-19 has accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce

  American Express CEO Stephen Squeri was among the commentators called upon during this year's Dell Technologies World keynote to discuss how the world of work and IT has changed during the pandemic

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Vodafone and Google Cloud expand big data platform collaboration with new six-year deal

  Vodafone and Google Cloud have signed a six-year deal to build on their efforts to create a big data platform that will help the telco deliver a more personalised service to businesses and consumers across the world

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  EncroChat: Top lawyer warned CPS of risk that phone hacking warrants could be unlawful

  Lord David Anderson QC warned prosecutors that there were formidable arguments against the lawfulness of a police operation to infiltrate the encrypted phone network, EncroChat

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Amazon posts profit and revenue growth as Q1 results highlight impact of Covid-19 on its business

  Online retail giant and its cloud arm have benefited from Covid-19-induced changes to consumer and enterprise buying patterns

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Public sector organisations ‘in the dark’ about where their data is, suggests UKCloud survey

  Response to a poll of public sector IT and business leaders suggests few have any idea if their data is stored in the cloud or on-premise, claims UKCloud

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Walt Disney Company confirms AWS as preferred cloud partner for Disney+ streaming service

  Company lifts the veil on the cloud tech powering the global expansion of its popular Disney+ streaming service

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  JEDI cloud contract: US court refuses to dismiss Amazon’s ‘political interference’ allegations

  The long-running JEDI cloud contract row rumbles on as US Court of Federal Claims refuses to dismiss Amazon’s allegations that the Trump administration interfered with contract’s outcome

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Startup targets PC gamers to build decentralised supercomputer

  US-based Salad Technologies has been tapping up PC gamers to donate their surplus capacity for cryptocurrency mining for several years now, but it is now turning its attention to diversifying its workloads

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Papa John’s embarks on ‘multi-phase’ move to Google Cloud

  Papa John’s International has set out plans to shutter its datacentres and revamp its customer experience to include a move towards real-time tracking data for its deliveries

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population

  Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators