Data centre
Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.
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E-Zine
07 Dec 2023
CW EMEA: Prepare for cyber war
When the war between Hamas and Israel began in October, cyber security professionals and major government and private organisations braced for an inevitable accompanying online war. In this issue of CW EMEA, we outline cyber war, patterns of threat activity, and find out what security teams can do to protect their organisations. We also look at Finland’s advances in quantum computing, how Belgian researchers have developed technology to help datacentres process data faster, and the secrets of KPN’s successful business transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2023
Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres
Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Feature
02 Mar 2022
Decarbonising datacentres: Turning the hot air about heat reuse into real-life use cases
Reusing waste heat from datacentres to warm local businesses and homes could bring about considerable reductions in carbon emissions and lower energy costs, so what needs to happen to make this a more widespread practice? Continue Reading
By- Matt Wegner, London South Bank University
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Feature
01 Mar 2022
Software firm saves storage array costs with Nutanix hyper-converged
Banking SaaS provider Vialink needed more IOPS when its NetApp arrays slowed up, but Nutanix hyper-converged proved a better package than Pure Storage and Dell EMC, too Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
01 Mar 2022
ASOS commits to keep using Microsoft Azure for another five years to support business growth push
Online retail giant ASOS is preparing to go even deeper into the Microsoft Azure cloud portfolio, as it looks to ramp up its use of data analytics to support its business growth goals Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
01 Mar 2022
Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery
Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
01 Mar 2022
Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility
Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
01 Mar 2022
Cloud suppliers eye APAC space industry
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are working with local governments and supplying cloud technologies to support the region’s growing space industry Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
28 Feb 2022
SaaS ERP customization vs. out of the box: Pros, cons
Companies considering SaaS ERP should weigh various factors when deciding on customization vs. out of the box. Learn what to consider when making the choice. Continue Reading
By- Reda Chouffani, Biz Technology Solutions
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Definition
28 Feb 2022
hot/cold aisle
The hot and cold aisles in the data center are part of an energy-efficient layout for server racks and other computing equipment. Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2022
British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’
Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’ Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
25 Feb 2022
Cracking the code on blockchain and crypto: What might adoption mean for datacentres?
A high share of datacentre customers look set to adopt blockchain technologies, including digital currencies, over the next few years Continue Reading
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Opinion
25 Feb 2022
Server virtualisation is far from dead
Server virtualisation must be looked upon with an expanded and fresh perspective amid the growing adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Here are seven server virtualisation trends to watch Continue Reading
By- Michael Warrilow
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News
23 Feb 2022
Microsoft extends Defender umbrella to Google Cloud Platform
Redmond says extending Defender for Cloud native capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform will help simplify security for organisations pursuing multicloud strategies by eliminating the gaps where the bad guys can get in Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
23 Feb 2022
Police forces ‘must’ do data protection due diligence checks before using PDS-backed AWS cloud
Police forces across England and Wales are being reminded not to overlook their data protection-related compliance responsibilities when making use of the Police Digital Service’s Amazon-powered cloud platform Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
22 Feb 2022
How to beat the heat: What can datacentre operators do to meet emissions targets?
With new mandates around sustainability proliferating, datacentres must find ways to meet their environmental goals while remaining competitive and meeting customer service-level expectations Continue Reading
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E-Zine
22 Feb 2022
Think nation-state cyber attacks won’t hit you? Think again…
In this week’s Computer Weekly, with Russian state cyber attacks in the news, we find out why security professionals in every organisation need to remain alert. Our buyer’s guide looks at the tools and programmes helping improve IT training. And we look at how the traditional sport of golf is undergoing a digital transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2022
Website owners urged to adopt ‘eco-standard’ to help cut internet-generated carbon emissions
The Eco-Friendly Web Alliance has set its sights on preventing a further 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide being generated in the next decade by helping website operators to cut emissions Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
18 Feb 2022
Alibaba at the Winter Olympics: Bringing Beijing 2022 to broadcasters around the world
As the Winter Olympics in Beijing draw to a close, the organisers lift the lid on the role Alibaba’s cloud technology has played in broadcasting the event to audiences across the globe Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
18 Feb 2022
CIO interview: Adam Miller, group head of IT, Markerstudy Group
The insurer and Auto Windscreens owner is using cloud-based virtual desktops to ease acquisitions and support home working during the pandemic – and its IT chief has a growing range of projects on the go Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2022
Amazon drops Elasticsearch name from cloud portfolio after trademark infringement suit concludes
Enterprise open search company Elastic has succeeded in getting Amazon to stop using the name Elasticsearch to describe its distributed search and analytics product Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
16 Feb 2022
Interview: How do you define IBM?
It is the world’s oldest computer company, and it was once said you didn’t get fired for buying from Big Blue. But a lot has changed. Sreeram Visvanathan, CEO for UK&I, explains how IBM is reinventing itself Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Blog Post
16 Feb 2022
The future of cloud: Tech predictions for 2022 and beyond
In this guest post, Amazon CTO and vice president Werner Vogels sets out what he thinks the year ahead holds for the world of cloud technology Cloud infrastructure has evolved to a place where we ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2022
Cloud Security Alliance publishes guidelines to bridge compliance and DevOps
The Cloud Security Alliance has published a report detailing practices that organisations can adopt to bridge the gap between compliance and software development and operations Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
16 Feb 2022
Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks
Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Feb 2022
The Citrix deal and what it means for Tibco
The investment firm behind Tibco has been on a spending spree, bolstering its product portfolio and offering new ways to access and connect to data Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
15 Feb 2022
Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment
Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Feb 2022
India to invest $1bn in quantum computing
India plans to invest $1bn over the next five years to advance its capabilities in quantum technology, but it will need to have a tailored approach and to address the skills gap to succeed Continue Reading
By- Pratima Harigunani
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News
11 Feb 2022
NetApp provides data infrastructure for EMBL
European Molecular Biology Laboratory uses NetApp to enable researchers to share and process high-end electron microscopy data Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2022
Rackspace buys Singapore firm to bolster analytics capability in APAC
Rackspace Technology’s acquisition of Just Analytics will bring delivery capabilities to Southeast Asia and pave the way for its expansion into Vietnam Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
10 Feb 2022
Sustainability in business practices: What IT should know
Bjoern Stengel, global sustainability research lead at IDC discusses the trends he's seeing in the use of sustainable tools and technologies and what leaders need to focus on. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Feb 2022
CW Benelux: Unesco members adopt AI ethics recommendation
Unesco member state have adopted an AI ethics recommendation that seeks to define a common set of values and principles to guide the development of ethical AI globally. Also read about a large-scale national cyber exercise in the Netherlands, and the Estonian government’s Siri-like digital assistant. Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2022
Half of key IT spending to shift to cloud
Some 51% of spending in key areas such as application software, infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure will shift to cloud by 2025, says Gartner Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
10 Feb 2022
clean install
A clean install is a software installation in which any previous version is eradicated. Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2022
Linux-based clouds an open door for attackers, says VMware
Its prevalence as a cloud operating system means Linux is becoming a meal ticket for malicious actors, but the security industry does not seem to have cottoned on to this yet, says VMware Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Definition
09 Feb 2022
Unix
Unix -- trademarked as UNIX -- is a multiuser, multitasking operating system (OS) designed for flexibility and adaptability. Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2022
How Carrefour is lowering its Oracle footprint
Migrating core business applications requires a multi-pronged approach, so what remains on-prem, and where does SaaS fit? Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
09 Feb 2022
Adoption of smart grid-ready UPS tech by datacentres tipped for take-off in next four years
IT market watcher Omdia claims the next four years could see a sizeable shift in how datacentres interact with the electricity grid as the use of smart grid-enabled UPS tech becomes more widespread Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
09 Feb 2022
KPMG embarks on cloud-focused youth tech talent push with non-profit Generation
Global consultancy firm KPMG is making good on its pledge to employ more people from working class backgrounds by 2030 with cloud-focused youth tech talent push Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
08 Feb 2022
Creating a more sustainable IT department
Technology leaders share some of the ways they're focused on lowering their carbon footprint and helping their companies advance sustainability goals. Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2022
Tiger offers lightweight file access for hybrid cloud
Roar data, anyone? Tiger offers local access to cloud data, with only parts of the file being worked on downloaded and file locking in cloud buckets to ensure integrity Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
08 Feb 2022
Nvidia’s Arm deal is dead
‘Significant regulatory challenges’ have prevented Nvidia in its $31bn attempt to purchase chipmaker Arm Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
08 Feb 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Staff training, incident and media management
In the third in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we set out the key components of DR staff awareness and training programmes, as well as incident management and dealing with the media Continue Reading
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Definition
07 Feb 2022
Categories of twisted-pair cabling systems
A twisted-pair cabling system is a cable consisting of one or several pairs of copper wires. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Carrie Higbie, The Siemon Company
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News
07 Feb 2022
CIO interview: Brian Roche, director of IT, George Best Belfast City Airport
Data analytics, the internet of things and open source software are central to the Northern Irish airport’s aim to create a seamless, tech-enabled journey for passengers Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2022
TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage
Sydney-based TV content provider MediaHub got tired of performance issues and scaling difficulties with SAN and NAS, so powered its as-a-service offer with Scality object storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 Feb 2022
Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough
High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
04 Feb 2022
AWS vs Amazon: Cloud giant’s revenue rises as parent company’s profit falls during Q4
AWS closes out its financial year with another quarter of strong revenue growth, while its parent company, Amazon.com, reports a more downbeat performance Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Feb 2022
Singtel adds Azure Edge Zones to MEC platform
Azure customers will be able to leverage existing Azure subscriptions in Singtel’s new MEC offering and use the Azure portal to deploy 5G applications at the edge Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
03 Feb 2022
French Supreme Court raises constitutional questions over EncroChat hacking secrecy
Conseil Constitutionnel to decide whether ‘defence secrecy’ over state EncroChat cryptophone hacking breaches French constitution Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
03 Feb 2022
Australia’s cloud market tipped to surpass $14bn in 2025
The growth will be led by growing demand for software-as-a-service offerings as Aussie firms look to tap cloud services in their digital transformation efforts Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
02 Feb 2022
JustPark moves from AWS to take up space in the Google public cloud
Parking space booking app JustPark claims shift in public cloud deployment strategy has reduced the system management overhead for its developers Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
01 Feb 2022
Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development
Check Point’s latest acquisition of Israel-based startup Spectral expands its developer-centric security toolset Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
31 Jan 2022
Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre
Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
31 Jan 2022
How apprenticeships are helping bridge the digital skills gap
Apprenticeships are not only for young people – they can help make IT departments more diverse and inclusive, as well as plugging skills gaps, as DWP Digital has proved Continue Reading
By- Richard McHugh
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News
31 Jan 2022
Google inks $1bn deal with Bharti Airtel
The wide-ranging deal covers Google’s equity investment in Airtel, as well as efforts to spur cloud adoption and lower barriers to smartphone ownership Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
28 Jan 2022
Leeds NHS Trust moves millions of patient records to the Microsoft Azure public cloud
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is moving its on-premise patient data system to the Microsoft Azure public cloud Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Jan 2022
Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub
Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
27 Jan 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Setting strategy and developing plans
In the second in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we look at how to formulate a DR strategy and develop detailed DR plans for your organisation, while taking cloud services into account Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Jan 2022
Stakes raised for hybrid cloud as complexity challenges continue
Hybrid cloud may be with us for some time, so what does that mean for cloud provision in 2022? Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2022
Storage tech brief: Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022
PCIe 5.0 will offer bandwidth up to 128GBps per drive. We look at what’s available and when, including in the new EDSFF form factor, as well as looking forward to PCIe gen 6 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Jan 2022
Should IT leaders plan for the quantum computing era?
Quantum computing is still at an early stage of development, but there are a handful of use cases where nothing else matches the horsepower it offers Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
26 Jan 2022
TigerGraph roars into APAC
The graph database technology supplier is approaching the region with a solution-based strategy and partnering with universities to grow local capabilities Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
26 Jan 2022
IBM fourth-quarter results show hybrid refocus
Big Blue continues its journey to rebuild its business around hybrid cloud platforms, software infrastructure and consulting services Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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E-Zine
25 Jan 2022
Why watching your remote workers doesn’t work
In this week’s Computer Weekly, the surge in home working led many firms to mandate use of surveillance software – we look at why it hasn’t worked. It’s an important year for public sector IT – we examine the trends for 2022. And with robotic process automation (RPA) booming, a Swedish bank explains the benefits. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 Jan 2022
Hybrid cloud storage: The devils are in the details
When it comes to storage, one thing is clear – cloud does not change everything Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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News
24 Jan 2022
Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner
With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
24 Jan 2022
EDSFF brings built-for-NVMe connectivity to the datacentre
Aimed at enterprise use cases, EDSFF offers incredible flash density in shared storage and hyperscale deployments, but storage products that use it are still thin on the ground Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
24 Jan 2022
Object storage: How research institute got 850TB for €150,000
French scientific research institute had its budgets cut and to meet the new cost constraints, it settled on Swarm software-defined object storage from DataCore Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
24 Jan 2022
Hybrid cloud storage: Options for rearchitecting enterprise IT
Hybrid cloud is seen as a way to have the best of both the on-premise and public cloud worlds. We look at the pros and cons of hybrid cloud storage Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 Jan 2022
UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline
UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Definition
20 Jan 2022
abend (abnormal end)
An abend (abnormal end) is an unexpected or abnormal termination of an application or operating system that results from a problem with the software. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2022
Delayed pay: Umbrella company cyber attacks disrupt salary payments to thousands of contractors
Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
19 Jan 2022
Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance
Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
19 Jan 2022
virtual to virtual (V2V)
Virtual to virtual (V2V) refers to the migration of an operating system (OS), application program and data from a virtual machine (VM) or disk partition to another virtual machine or disk partition. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jan 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Assessing risk and business impact
In the first in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we provide a step-by-step guide to building firm foundations for the disaster recovery plan, with risk assessment and business impact analysis Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2022
IT teams blind to Kubernetes observability
The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
17 Jan 2022
Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage
Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
14 Jan 2022
Podcast: 2022 compliance preview – GDPR goes global
We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of VigiTrust, about what’s looming in compliance, with regulations based on the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation plus the concept of cyber accountability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Jan 2022
Parasol systems outage leaves umbrella contractors facing late payments
Multi-day outage leaves umbrella company contractors working for payroll processing firm Parasol facing late salary payments, with the firm remaining tight-lipped over the cause of its technical difficulties Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
14 Jan 2022
M1 rolls out voice bot for customer hotlines
The Singapore telco has rolled out a voice bot for a number of customer hotlines to improve customer experience and the productivity of call agents Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
13 Jan 2022
Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle
From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
13 Jan 2022
RBL Bank taps Google Cloud to drive digital agenda
The private lender will tap Google Cloud to power its customer acquisition engine and improve customer data management and analytics, among other areas Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
12 Jan 2022
Dispelling the top five myths of modern infrastructure
Modern infrastructure is agile, flexible and scalable. It is at the forefront of every CIO’s digital strategy – and it's everywhere. But with the multitude of choices comes complexity Continue Reading
By- Paul Delory, Gartner
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News
12 Jan 2022
Macquarie joins NSW government’s cloud supplier panel
New South Wales state agencies will be able to access Macquarie’s sovereign cyber expertise and secure cloud, network and datacentre services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
10 Jan 2022
Inside Kyndryl’s Southeast Asia playbook
Kyndryl will focus on building local partnerships and tapping opportunities in managed cloud services, among other areas, to stake a claim on the region’s managed services space Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
10 Jan 2022
Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?
The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ... Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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Feature
10 Jan 2022
How to make AI greener and more efficient
Artificial intelligence promises both to combat the ill effects of climate change and to make the emergency worse with excessive energy use. How can AI be made greener? Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Jan 2022
Sharp end of the edge: Managing micro-datacentres in a shared environment
Ongoing diversification in datacentre types gives rise to management challenges for operators, prompting a rethink about how they run their sites Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Jan 2022
Avoid complexity in data storage decisions
With more options for on- and off-premise data storage, the need for simplicity is greater than ever Continue Reading
By- Junade Ali
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Feature
06 Jan 2022
Evolving datacentre chipsets put cooling, power and software management techniques under microscope
New processor designs that could revolutionise approaches to supporting higher power densities at the rack still look years away, it appears Continue Reading
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Definition
06 Jan 2022
Cygwin
Cygwin is a collection of open source tools that allows Unix or Linux applications to be compiled and run on a Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) from within a Linux-like interface. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2022
Amazon and Stellantis embark on multi-year, cloud-focused connected car push
Amazon has signed a series of deals with Fiat’s parent company, focused on enhancing the connected car experience for consumers, as well as improving the sustainability of the online retail giant’s delivery fleet Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
06 Jan 2022
Thailand builds new supercomputer to boost research
The National Science and Technology Development Agency’s new supercomputer will boost research in pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and weather forecasting, among other areas Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
05 Jan 2022
Melbourne’s InnerVision ups ante in smart parking
InnerVision Engineering’s smart parking solution uses machine vision and other technologies to deliver a frictionless parking experience for drivers in Australia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
04 Jan 2022
Law passes to give UK government enhanced screening powers for M&A tech deals
The National Security and Investment Act, which gives the UK government powers to intervene on M&A deals in 17 tech-related areas, has now come into force Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
31 Dec 2021
Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
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Definition
29 Dec 2021
HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
HVAC stands for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Continue Reading
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Definition
28 Dec 2021
high-performance computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is the practice of using parallel data processing to improve computing performance and perform complex calculations. Continue Reading
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Definition
28 Dec 2021
IT systems management
Systems management is the administration of the information technology (IT) systems in an enterprise network or data center. Continue Reading
By- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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News
23 Dec 2021
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget