Datacentre backup power and power distribution
Learn about datacentre power distribution, including direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) power, uninterruptible power supply, and backup power in case of a datacentre power outage.
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E-Zine
14 Apr 2026
How a risky move paid off for Nvidia
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Nvidia, the chip company at the centre of the AI revolution, about how its 20-year technology bet paid off. Oracle is laying off 30,000 workers – we find out what’s behind the controversial move. And we analyse the risks and opportunities from edge AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2026
Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy
Texas the hotspot as US datacentres enter the GW age, Virginia set to hold its status as ‘datacentre alley’, while constrained west coast states set for market share decline Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars
Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2020
Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects
Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2020
Prudential turns to AI to secure computer networks against cyber attacks
Prudential, the UK’s largest listed insurer, is turning to artificial intelligence to protect its computer networks in the US, Asia and Africa from malware hackers and internal threats Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Mar 2020
Lean, mean and green: The datacentres of the future
Working out how to develop more efficient datacentres in an increasingly resource-hungry world is not easy, but it is possible Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Mar 2020
Data center power infrastructure essentials prevent downtime
Power infrastructure upkeep is essential to reduce damage in an unplanned outage. UPS and generator maintenance, plus disaster planning, should be a part of regular operations. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2020
Datacentres operators must move away from diesel backup generators to give back to grid
While the diesel backup generators used by datacentre operators have a limited environmental impact, using them for extended periods of time to power sites to feed energy back into the grid is not a sustainable solution to growing electricity demand Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2020
Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019
While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2020
HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world
HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jan 2020
Driving adoption: Are high costs putting public cloud out of reach to non-profits?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s insights into the sky-high cloud bills faced by some non-profit organisations prompts questions about whether the public cloud giants should do more to make their services more accessible to the third sector Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2020
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 Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2020
What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?
Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital? Continue Reading
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News
27 Dec 2019
Top 10 cloud stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2019 Continue Reading
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News
27 Dec 2019
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019 Continue Reading
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News
26 Nov 2019
Unisys nears completion of SaaS-based upgrade of Holmes2 police IT system
Global IT provider Unisys says the last of the 43 police forces in England and Wales that need to upgrade to the cloud-based version of its Holmes2 shared investigations system will complete in early 2020 Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2019
Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme
Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies Continue Reading
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E-Zine
24 Sep 2019
Climate change – the challenge for datacentres
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the impact of climate change on datacentres as potential victims and contributors to the problem. We look at the rise of voice channels and how IT leaders can use the technology for better customer experience. And we ask what lessons must be learned from Ecuador’s citizens’ data breach. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Sep 2019
Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation
Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage Continue Reading
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News
20 Sep 2019
Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment
Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2019
Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace
Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client Continue Reading
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E-Zine
12 Sep 2019
CW Europe: Dutch authorities call temporary halt to datacentre construction
Two Dutch municipalities are putting all datacentre construction on hold while they put together a strategy to help them control developments. A local alderman said datacentres take up a lot of space and place a large burden on the electricity grid. Also read how France is racing ahead of Germany in making the most of service companies in India, and about Google’s plans for a new datacentre and technology training hub in Finland. Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2019
Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report
Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2019
YPO debuts £400m datacentre and cloud framework for local councils and schools
Procurement management organisation YPO has set live a public sector framework designed to support local authorities and educational institutions embrace hybrid cloud Continue Reading
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News
08 Aug 2019
British Airways resolves IT systems issues that forced it to ground and delay hundreds of flights
British Airways has confirmed the IT system-related technical difficulties that resulted in it having to cancel hundreds of flights have been resolved Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Aug 2019
Log management: Helping IT admins to achieve infrastructure-wide visibility
When properly configured and deployed, log management tools can unearth a veritable treasure trove of data that IT administrators can use to triage and diagnose problems in enterprise IT infrastructures Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2019
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 Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2019
Australia to upgrade supercomputer in HPC boost
The Gadi supercomputer at the Australian National University will run 10 times faster than its predecessor, giving researchers access to high performance computing resources to solve the toughest research problems Continue Reading
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News
16 Jul 2019
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 Continue Reading
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News
10 Jul 2019
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 Continue Reading
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News
09 Jul 2019
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 Continue Reading
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News
04 Jul 2019
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage resolved, but questions remain over what caused it
Facebook confirms that technical difficulties blighted its applications and services for several hours on 3 July 2019 Continue Reading
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News
03 Jul 2019
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage blights users across the globe
Social networking users have run into technical difficulties this afternoon when trying to access Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp Continue Reading
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News
03 Jul 2019
Cloudflare outage: Firm blames global website outage on routine software update gone rogue
Content delivery provider traces outage back to failings that occurred during a routine update to its web application firewall service Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Jul 2019
Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre
The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2019
Growing diversity of datacentre types revealed in latest Vertiv 2025 market predictions study
Datacentre power specialist’s latest poll on what the industry will look like in 2025 reveals a change in attitude from respondents to powering sites with renewable energy, and shines a light on how its looming skills crisis is developing Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Jun 2019
Uptime and availability: Making sense of supplier SLAs
Enterprises need to read the fine print of supplier service-level agreements (SLA) or risk finding themselves caught short during downtime incidents Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2019
Schneider Electric CTO claims AI and cloud could give DCIM market new lease of life
Kevin Brown tells Datacloud Europe Congress that the datacentre infrastructure management market could be on the cusp of a second coming, buoyed by cloud, big data and artificial intelligence technologies Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2019
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 of work it involves Continue Reading
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Podcast
07 May 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 14
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload, editor-in-chief Bryan Glick joins Brian McKenna and Caroline Donnelly to discuss the technology used in BBC drama Line of Duty, the latest twists and turns in the Huawei saga, and open source cloud trends Continue Reading
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Feature
01 May 2019
Protecting your digital assets: Why it pays to invest in cyber insurance
Cyber insurance offers financial protection against the worst happening to a company’s data and digital assets, and is something few businesses can afford to be without Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2019
Construction halted at Apple datacentre in Denmark over alleged contractor dispute, report suggests
A local media report suggests construction of Apple's first non-US datacentre has halted in Denmark over a dispute over missed deadlines by the contractor tasked with delivering the build Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2019
Conclusion of legal row over Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre fuels site takeover hopes
After four years of planning delays and legal wrangles, Irish Supreme Court dismisses appeal lodged by objectors to the Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Apr 2019
Improve data center efficiency with these 3 steps
As applications require more computing power, enterprises need to ensure they maximize their data centers. These three steps can improve data center efficiency. Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2019
Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location
Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Apr 2019
Blackout after Brexit: UK datacentres brace for post-EU power supply and cost changes
As the uncertainty over how the UK intends to extricate itself from the European Union rumbles on, datacentre operators are weighing up how Brexit might affect the availability and cost of the power they need to run their facilities in future Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2019
Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend
Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam Continue Reading
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Podcast
26 Mar 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 9
In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly hosts the show as Brian McKenna recovers from his latest jaunt to San Francisco, while Clare McDonald discusses women in technology, and the team once again talks about the need for unbiased artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2019
MySpace data loss: Botched server migration prompts user concerns over fate of lost songs
Social networking forerunner MySpace confirms server migration caused the loss of content uploaded to its site before 2015 Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2019
Cloud backup helps ASL Airlines evade ransomware and keep its business flying, says CIO
ASL Airlines took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2018 Awards after detailing how adopting a robust and resilient disaster recovery strategy is helping it evade ransomware threats Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2019
Google to spend $13bn in 2019 on additional US datacentres and offices
Search giant Google sets its sights on expanding its presence across the US during 2019 to accommodate the demand for its consumer and enterprise-focused internet and cloud services Continue Reading
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News
29 Jan 2019
Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum
The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures Continue Reading
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News
04 Jan 2019
Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief
A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre Continue Reading
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E-Zine
20 Dec 2018
CW ANZ: Rise to cloud and data management challenges
Use of cloud services is soaring in Australia, but a lack of cloud management skills is holding back enterprises from reaping the full benefits of the technology. In this edition of CW ANZ, we look at how enterprises in ANZ are approaching data management in the cloud, and some of the best practices that they can adopt to address cloud related challenges. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2018
Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore
The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
20 Dec 2018
CW ASEAN: How to make the right cloud infrastructure choices
Across the ASEAN region, more companies, including bigwigs such as Southeast Asia’s largest bank DBS, are turning to cloud infrastructure services to augment or even replace their entire IT infrastructure in some cases. In this month’s edition of CW ASEAN, we take a look at the considerations when choosing infrastructure as a service, and what needs to be in place for enterprises to get the most out of the cloud computing technology. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
06 Dec 2018
Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute
Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Nov 2018
Going green: Boosting the sustainability of Europe's booming datacentre market
In this guest post, Jens Struckmeier, founder and CTO of cloud service provider Cloud&Heat Technologies, shares his views on the ecological and technological challenges caused by Europe’s ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Nov 2018
BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage
Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017 Continue Reading
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News
20 Nov 2018
Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres
The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers Continue Reading
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News
06 Nov 2018
Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona Continue Reading
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E-Zine
30 Oct 2018
Power struggle: A row is brewing over EU plans to curb datacentre energy use
In this week’s Computer Weekly, a row is brewing over an EU plan to curb datacentre energy use, and the leading server suppliers are not happy - we analyse the details. Secretary of state for health and social care Matt Hancock talks exclusively to us about his new technology vision for the NHS. And we examine the growing popularity of short-term “gig” employment for IT professionals. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2018
Datacentre glitches expose data loss risks
A new study has highlighted the fragility of corporate datacentres and the very real risk of data loss Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2018
E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham
Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2018
Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2018
Dividing lines: EU bid to curb server energy use has the European datacentre community split
An EU-backed push to curb European datacentre energy use has proven to be a divisive issue, as debate rages over the usefulness of using idle energy to determine the overall efficiency of servers Continue Reading
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News
19 Sep 2018
EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer
Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2018
Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore
The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub Continue Reading
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News
23 Aug 2018
Danish government in ambitious datacentre push
Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2018
Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency
Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs Continue Reading
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News
14 Aug 2018
Waste heat from Digiplex's Nordic datacentre to warm 5,000 Oslo homes
Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex is expanding its commitment to running its facilities in a sustainable way by agreeing to reuse its waste heat to warm homes in Oslo Continue Reading
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News
14 Aug 2018
UK banks under pressure to improve downtime reporting under new FCA rules
To make it easier for customers to compare and switch between current account providers, UK banks are under pressure to improve their reporting processes for downtime and security incidents Continue Reading
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News
07 Aug 2018
Frequency and severity of datacentre outages on the rise, Uptime Institute research suggests
The Uptime Institute’s eighth annual datacentre survey reveals operators across the world are suffering more outages, as the complexity of the environments they manage continues to grow Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2018
EU-backed datacentre consortium seeks industry help for Europe-wide sustainability push
Catalyst Consortium is creating a green energy special interest group to work out how best to encourage Europe’s datacentre operators to reuse their waste heat and reduce the impact of their activities on local energy grids Continue Reading
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News
12 Jul 2018
Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises
IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2018
CNet Training calls on datacentre sector for input on skill shortage research
Technology skills and education provider CNet Training is calling on the datacentre community to help inform its research into what is behind the sector's skill shortages Continue Reading
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News
02 Jul 2018
Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development
French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway
Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth
A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2018
Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market
NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2018
Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre
Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2018
Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup
One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2018
Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows
Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2018
Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney
Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world Continue Reading
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News
02 May 2018
Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech
Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place Continue Reading
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News
25 Apr 2018
Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden
Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2018
Norway government backs ambitious datacentre investment plan
Norway has a plan to be a leading location for datacentres with a policy that will put it in direct competition with some of its Nordic neighbours Continue Reading
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News
06 Apr 2018
Microsoft outage: Europe-wide downtime locks Office 365 and Azure users out of cloud
Microsoft engineers cite Azure Active Directory fault as cause of cloud customer service woes across Europe Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Apr 2018
Data recovery disasters: Kroll Ontrack on how it helps enterprises bounce back
Data recovery expert Kroll Ontrack provides a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges enterprises and consumers face getting their files and information back when disaster strikes Continue Reading
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News
05 Mar 2018
Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres
Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m Continue Reading
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News
05 Mar 2018
AWS outage: Datacentre power cut knocks ‘hundreds’ of internet services offline
A year on from Amazon’s S3 outage at its US-East-1 datacentre region, a power loss incident in the same place has caused a fresh round of service disruption for the cloud giant’s customers Continue Reading
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News
05 Mar 2018
Microsoft Singapore to tap solar energy for datacentre operations
Software giant Microsoft will buy 100% of the renewable energy generated by solar panels installed on rooftops across Singapore to power its datacentre operations Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2018
Are gas-powered datacentres all hype and hot air?
As concerns about how the proliferation of datacentres will affect electricity supplies continue to be raised, some are experimenting with natural gas as an alternative energy source. But is it a viable, long-term solution? Continue Reading
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News
01 Mar 2018
Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres
As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2018
Colt DCS ramps up renewable power use across European datacentre estate
Carrier neutral datacentre operator Colt DCS claims the technology industry has a "moral duty" to do more than the bare minimum to ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the environment Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2018
FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Feb 2018
The EURECA moment: Counting the cost of running the UK’s public sector datacentres
The EU-backed EURECA project has spent the past 36 months assessing the state of public sector datacentres across Europe, and is revealing what it found Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2018
OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers
In a whitepaper co-authored by a number of open source advocates, the OpenStack Foundation makes the case for taking a teamwork approach to tackling the barriers to widespread edge computing adoption Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2018
Cryptocurrency mining consuming more electricity than Iceland’s homes
Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland could use more power than all the households in the country combined Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2018
Beyond Brexit: Can the hyperscalers future-proof the growth of the UK colocation market?
Demand for colocation datacentre space in London is booming, on the back of the hyperscale cloud giants setting up shop in the UK, but will it be enough to safeguard the sector’s growth in the face of Brexit? Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2018
CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres
The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres Continue Reading
