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Virtualisation management strategy
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September 29, 2020
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Sep'20
Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5
Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of hyper-converged systems
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September 16, 2020
16
Sep'20
Pure flashes the cash, paying $370m for Portworx
Flash storage pioneer believes container storage is the next frontier and pays big money for container persistent storage software provider Portworx in deal set to close this month
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September 16, 2020
16
Sep'20
Deutsche Bӧrse tackles VMware application migration with Google Cloud
German financial exchange firm provides an update on its progress in its move to embrace a hybrid IT and multicloud future
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August 05, 2020
05
Aug'20
Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward
Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law
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August 05, 2020
05
Aug'20
Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation
Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years
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July 13, 2020
13
Jul'20
Gartner: Remote working shifts CIO priorities
Business recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will lead to changes in the projects IT leaders focus on
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June 18, 2020
18
Jun'20
Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief
Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops
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June 10, 2020
10
Jun'20
IBM Cloud users demand further clarity over cause of global outage
Multi-hour cloud outage leaves IBM users calling on Big Blue for further information on what caused it
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June 09, 2020
09
Jun'20
Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition
The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy
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June 02, 2020
02
Jun'20
VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover
Ethical hackers from Citadelo uncovered a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that left private cloud owners open to takeover
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May 14, 2020
14
May'20
Venafi buys cloud protection service Jetstack
Jetstack specialises in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystems
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May 04, 2020
04
May'20
Xen Orchestra latest victim of Salt cryptojackers
More victims of cyber criminals exploiting two critical Salt vulnerabilities are coming forward
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May 04, 2020
04
May'20
StorageOS v2 puts ‘mini brains’ in Kubernetes storage volumes
StorageOS persistent software-defined storage for Kubernetes distributes control plane decisions to volumes in a cluster and takes away the impact on centralised scheduler
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April 30, 2020
30
Apr'20
Red Hat-VMware rivalry intensifies with OpenShift virtualisation
New virtualisation features in OpenShift point to an emerging Kubernetes platform war between Red Hat and VMware
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April 22, 2020
22
Apr'20
How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation
At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack
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April 15, 2020
15
Apr'20
Centrica deploys Citrix Cloud services on Azure to manage demand
Utility firm Centrica turns to Citrix on the Azure cloud to deal with its seasonal peak in call centre usage, which affects its virtual desktop environment
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April 14, 2020
14
Apr'20
Three changes to office work post-coronavirus
While it’s early days, experts believe the coronavirus pandemic could change working practices. We investigate
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March 17, 2020
17
Mar'20
Nutanix expands virtual desktop service in APAC
Nutanix has expanded its Xi Frame virtual desktop service to five more cloud regions in Asia-Pacific amid the Covid-19 outbreak
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March 10, 2020
10
Mar'20
Inside Oracle’s cloud strategy
Oracle may be late to the cloud infrastructure and platform game, but it believes it has what it takes to carve out a bigger slice of the Asia-Pacific’s cloud market
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March 06, 2020
06
Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India
Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments
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February 24, 2020
24
Feb'20
McAfee buys Light Point to enhance web browser protection
Acquisition of Light Point Security will extend the capabilities of multiple McAfee products
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January 20, 2020
20
Jan'20
Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north
Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north
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January 15, 2020
15
Jan'20
Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play
Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises
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January 15, 2020
15
Jan'20
How container applications are shaping storage management
Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change
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January 14, 2020
14
Jan'20
What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?
Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?
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January 10, 2020
10
Jan'20
Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows
In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s
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January 06, 2020
06
Jan'20
A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending
The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation"
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December 27, 2019
27
Dec'19
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
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December 04, 2019
04
Dec'19
AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks
AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks
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December 03, 2019
03
Dec'19
HPE takes aim at hybrid IT management as a service
Starting with its GreenLake family, HPE is building out a hybrid platform from the edge to the cloud
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November 26, 2019
26
Nov'19
VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play
New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications
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November 05, 2019
05
Nov'19
Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona
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October 22, 2019
22
Oct'19
Porsche selects HPE for five-year software-defined datacentre strategy
The IT business inside Porsche is deploying HPE servers and infrastructure on-demand as part of a hybrid environment
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October 14, 2019
14
Oct'19
Best of VMworld 2019 Europe Awards nominations now open until 25 October
Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination for this year’s awards
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September 20, 2019
20
Sep'19
Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation
Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage
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September 18, 2019
18
Sep'19
Singapore Airlines extends use of VMware Workspace One
Singapore’s national carrier is extending the use of Workspace One to more users in a move to enable its workforce to stay productive while on the go
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September 04, 2019
04
Sep'19
Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2
Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring
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September 03, 2019
03
Sep'19
Aberdeen Standard Investment deploys Igel for VDI
The investment management group is rolling out virtual desktop infrastructure globally and will use the secure Linux platform Igel to manage the VDI environment
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August 26, 2019
26
Aug'19
VMware’s latest acquisitions point to emerging platform war
VMware’s buyout of Carbon Black and Pivotal is a sign of an emerging platform war following the IBM-Red Hat deal
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July 30, 2019
30
Jul'19
Google increases presence and investments in Finland
New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland
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July 16, 2019
16
Jul'19
Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction
Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds
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July 10, 2019
10
Jul'19
Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development
Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies
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July 09, 2019
09
Jul'19
Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth
The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges
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June 14, 2019
14
Jun'19
How digital transformation underpins Three’s 5G ambitions
At Three, the smallest of the UK’s four mobile network operators, a transformative attitude to underlying IT is helping the firm mount a serious challenge to its rivals when it comes to 5G roll-out
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June 11, 2019
11
Jun'19
Scale targets edge workloads with HE500 hyper-converged nodes
Scale Computing adds hyper-converged infrastructure nodes to provide edge compute and storage that is fully compatible with its datacentre-scale HCI appliances
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June 06, 2019
06
Jun'19
Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps
Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...
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June 04, 2019
04
Jun'19
Is ‘Brexit effect’ to blame for drop in UK data management investments?
Research from data backup software supplier Veeam suggests UK C-suite is set to invest much less in data management over the course of the next 12 months than the rest of the world, prompting concerns that Brexit might be to blame
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May 23, 2019
23
May'19
VMware CEO outlines laws of hybrid cloud
Pat Gelsinger points out three laws that will make the case for the hybrid cloud future: economics, physics and data sovereignty
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May 21, 2019
21
May'19
University of Bradford deploys HPC to aid research into preserving world’s heritage sites
University teams up with OCF to deploy high-performance computing environment to support efforts to create 3D representations of world heritage sites
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May 09, 2019
09
May'19
Nutanix takes aim at making multi-cloud simple
Provider of hyper-converged technology, Nutanix, is breaking out of the datacentre and hybrid IT to enable workloads to move anywhere