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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News
24 Oct 2025
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion
Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Oct 2025
How APAC organisations can embrace hybrid cloud
As cost pressures, data sovereignty rules and the rise of AI reshape IT priorities, we look at what organisations across Asia-Pacific can do to adopt the hybrid infrastructure model that places each workload in its optimal environment Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2022
Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend
Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2022
Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google
Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2022
Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London
Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2022
More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally
The number of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world is set to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, as demand for capacity across the globe continues to soar Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2022
Ad agency slashes NetApp costs with Datadobi data migration
US-based branding agency needed to migrate 20TB of large files to new NetApp hardware, but unwilling to stomach the vendor’s migration costs it chose Datadobi instead Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2022
CW Innovation Awards: How Telekom Malaysia scaled its RPA initiative
Telekom Malaysia has been driving automation efforts across the company, not only to serve customers more efficiently, but also to improve a slew of back office functions Continue Reading
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Definition
23 Mar 2022
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is an enterprise Linux operating system (OS) developed by Red Hat for the business market. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Mar 2022
The CIO's key role in environmental sustainability
With climate concerns growing by the day, technology leaders are critical to driving sustainability initiatives. Here's advice on getting those started and aligning with the business. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2022
NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection
Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2022
BMW Group adopts HPE GreenLake to improve data management
HPE GreenLake will enable the vehicle manufacturer to provide a unified cloud for data management Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Mar 2022
Weighing up the nuclear option for powering datacentres
Resourcing energy-hungry IT through the race to reduce carbon emissions means looking objectively at all the options, including nuclear power Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2022
Edge computing implementations still in their infancy
It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2022
Siloed data holding back coordinated health responses
Digital health experts discuss the role of data in coordinating the NHS’s pandemic response and how managing privacy and governance issues are key to further success Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2022
University of Reading tracks fruit tree flowering as spring breaks, with Oracle
University is working with Oracle for research to monitor fruit trees as they blossom into spring Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Mar 2022
Digital Cleanup Day: It's time to take out the digital trash
In this guest post, Yann Lechelle, CEO of French cloud provider Scaleway, sets out the steps consumers and businesses can take to reduce the environmental impact of their digital activities, ahead ... Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Five ways the hyper-converged infrastructure market is changing
We look at changes in the hyper-converged infrastructure market as suppliers go cool, go soft, disaggregate HCI nodes, provide as-a-service options and look to containers Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Mar 2022
Storage suppliers put Kubernetes platforms centre stage
How to orchestrate the orchestrator? Storage suppliers’ Kubernetes management platforms aim to meet storage and data protection challenge in containerised application environments Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Mar 2022
Monitoring performance in a hybrid cloud world
The growing use of cloud demands a new breed of monitoring and observability tools to keep track of how cloud-native applications and services perform Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
AWS pledges to invest £1.8bn in building out its UK datacentre footprint over next two years
Public cloud giant outlines commitment to bolstering its digital infrastructure in the UK through investing billions of pounds in its datacentres Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
Facebook owner Meta plots Spanish datacentre build to power ‘metaverse’ strategy
Social media giant Meta wants to put Spain at the ‘heart’ of its vision for how the next-generation of the internet will work, with plans to build a datacentre and a remote working hub Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
Quantum launches ‘scale-out’ i6H rackmount tape library
Aimed at hyperscalers and enterprises, the LTO-9 system comes in a rackmount form factor that can be deployed anywhere in the datacentre as part of a common pool of storage Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
Kubernetes vulnerability underscores repeated security warnings
The disclosure of a new vulnerability in an important container runtime engine that underpins Kubernetes has drawn fresh warnings to pay attention to securing Kubernetes environments Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Mar 2022
A waste of energy: Dealing with idle servers in the datacentre
Servers can be the slackers of the datacentre, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
Intel injects billions into European semiconductor push
With no end in sight to the semiconductor shortage, Intel is blowing the budget on ramping up European manufacturing, packaging and R&D Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2022
TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia
Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2022
Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud computer in Singapore
The Chinese cloud supplier unveils cloud computer powered by Alibaba’s Elastic Desktop Service for the first time outside China Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2022
More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards
Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications Continue Reading
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News
10 Mar 2022
Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub
Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2022
BT signs five-year deal with Google Cloud to revamp customer experience
BT is teaming up with Google Cloud so it can tap into its portfolio of data analytics and artificial intelligence services, and revamp its customer experience Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes
Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Mar 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Maintenance and continuous improvement
In the final article in this four-part guide to disaster recovery planning, we look at how and when to update, maintain, audit, review and continually improve the DR plan Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2022
Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities
Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Mar 2022
Datacentres and climate change: Operators accused of being all talk and no action on sustainability
Datacentre operators talk a good fight when it comes to tackling climate change, but there is far more they should and could be doing to make their operations more sustainable, say experts Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Mar 2022
Strategies, benefits of data center network automation
Data center networks aren't new, but ways of managing them are -- such as with data center network automation. Strategies include cloud automation, DevOps automation and more. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2022
Micron 7450 aims its 176 TLC layers at QLC flash use cases
New 176-layer tech brings densely packed flash cells in drives that come in 2.5”, M.2 and EDSFF form factors, aimed at datacentre workloads from archive to database storage Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Mar 2022
Why post-pandemic reskilling must focus on mainframes
A major contributing factor to UK-wide skills shortages is the significant number of people who have left the workforce since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2022
India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move
The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2022
Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia
Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2022
SingHealth researchers to get new supercomputer
Healthcare researchers at SingHealth can look forward to a new supercomputer to support their work Continue Reading
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Definition
02 Mar 2022
greenfield deployment
A greenfield deployment is the design, installation and configuration of computer infrastructure where none existed before, for example, in a new office. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2022
How FinOps can rein in cloud costs
More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services Continue Reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
