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• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  AWS opens UK datacentre region to meet "pent-up" demand for locally-hosted cloud

  The UK managing director of AWS claims region opening will help existing customers meet their latency and data sovereignty requirements, and benefit the wider economy

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

  To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

  Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  Tape backup: Often old and confused, but quite cheap

  Survey results show those with tape are likely to have old tapes, multiple formats, including defunct ones, and no way of knowing what is on them. But tape is still quite cheap for most

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

• 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

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

  Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Coop Denmark replaces NetApp with VMware software-defined VSAN

  Scandinavian retailer Coop simplifies virtual server storage with VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage and sidesteps bandwidth bottlenecks on NetApp Metro Cluster replication

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Cloud set to net a larger share of enterprise IT budgets in 2017, predicts 451 Research

  451 Research's cloud and hosting market review suggests enterprise IT decision makers are preparing to ramp up with use of cloud and hosting services in 2017

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  HyperGrid launches HyperCloud containerised hybrid cloud platform

  Hyper-converged appliance maker HyperGrid promises full two-way workload portability between on-premise hardware, private cloud and public cloud services in HyperCloud launch

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers hit by second SSP Worldwide cloud outage in less than a week

  Insurance software house comes under fire from users again, after they run into problems with its cloud service for the second time in a week

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Cloud co prefers Tintri hybrid flash to Dell, DotHill and NetApp

  Cloud service provider Access Alto struggled with reliable performance in legacy block and file environment, so moved to Tintri hybrid flash with VMware-native file access boxes

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

  Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage