Datacentre capacity planning
Effective capacity planning evaluates how well the datacentre helps achieve its business objectives in the present and anticipates the organisation's future needs. As a capacity planner, you must examine hardware, infrastructure and personnel, and determine whether these IT components can handle growth and new requirements that may arise. This section covers how to develop an effective datacentre capacity planning strategy to ensure your datacentre is scalable and prepared for the future.
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News
30 Apr 2025
Government bags 200 bids from local authorities wanting AI growth zones in their areas
The government has received 200 expressions of interest in response to its AI growth zones application push, and is now seeking to progress some bids Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
25 Apr 2025
How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design
At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Podcast
23 Apr 2025
Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO
Computer Weekly talks to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s expertise in massive volumes of data and a roadmap that includes Myriad, a new file system for forever flash in the AI era Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
16 Apr 2025
Huawei rises in the storage ranks despite sanctions and tariffs
Supplier profile: Huawei has leapfrogged HPE in revenue and market share and broadened its storage offer towards AI, the cloud and as-a-service despite sanctions and tariffs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Apr 2025
Expect a tariff on semiconductors within two months, says US commerce secretary
The Trump administration has separated out semiconductors in a bid to bring back manufacturing to the US Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
14 Apr 2025
Introducing the EuroStack initiative: Could this turn the tide on hyperscale cloud in Europe?
A collaborative initiative in Europe has kicked off to take back some power from an increasingly asymmetric global tech market. Should the UK do similarly? Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2025
IT strategy implications of US tariffs
When is the best time to buy IT equipment? With tariffs in place that are set to increase, tech CEOs have signalled price rises ahead Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
09 Apr 2025
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years
The European Union wants to reduce its dependence on non-EU datacentres in support of its plan to become an artificial intelligence superpower Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 Apr 2025
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
08 Apr 2025
What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?
Moore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
07 Apr 2025
UK government to address balancing energy sustainability with AI growth demands
The government is to host its inaugural AI Energy Council meetup, as it seeks a route to ensuring its goal of making the UK an artificial intelligence superpower does not come at the expense of the nation’s energy security Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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E-Zine
01 Apr 2025
Inside Amazon’s robot-powered warehouse
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Amazon’s robot-powered Swindon warehouse to see how AI and humans are working together. We examine the state of open source licensing and find out how it’s affecting datacentre operators. And we visit a 130-year-old wine and drinks company to find out how technology has brought operations into the modern age. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Podcast
31 Mar 2025
Podcast: HDD safe from flash for a decade or more
We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese, who argues flash cannot replace spinning disk because it’s too costly to consider for anything but limited, performance-hungry applications Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
31 Mar 2025
Meeting the UK’s compute capacity needs: Alternatives to hyperscale datacentre builds
Since coming to power, the Labour government has set out plans to accelerate new datacentre builds. We look at how this is evolving Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Mar 2025
Microsoft’s ‘fraying relationship’ with OpenAI blamed for datacentre expansion plan rollback
US analyst TD Cowen publishes research note pointing to further rollbacks on Microsoft’s datacentre expansion plans Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
26 Mar 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
HMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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E-Zine
25 Mar 2025
NHS England scrapped – and what that means for health service digitisation
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the impact of scrapping NHS England on the health service’s long road to digital modernisation. We look at real-life examples of how digital twins are helping to improve manufacturing and urban infrastructure. And we analyse the options for datacentre expansion, from cloud to colocation and on-premise. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
24 Mar 2025
Cloud, colocation or on-premise? Consider all options
When it comes to datacentres, every option should be considered Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2025
Hyperscale datacentre capacities continue to rise off back of AI boom
Market data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Mar 2025
NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe
Aimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
19 Mar 2025
HPE storage battles hard and smart in challenging market
Storage profile: We look at HPE, which has slipped in the storage supplier rankings, but brings a full range of AI-era storage over a mature cloud and consumption model offer Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
18 Mar 2025
Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture
New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
18 Mar 2025
UK under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack
In this week’s Computer Weekly, MPs have been told the UK is under-prepared to cope with a catastrophic cyber attack – we find out where the problems lie. Our new buyer’s guide assesses the challenges of datacentre capacity planning. And one of the UK’s most successful businessmen, Sir Martin Sorrell, gives his view on the risks and opportunities of AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Mar 2025
Space and power constrain datacentre planning
The government needs to tackle the resource issues that act as roadblocks to building out UK datacentre capacity Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2025
Space and power constrain datacentre planning
The government needs to tackle the resource issues that act as roadblocks to building out UK datacentre capacity. Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2025
Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities
Research report, featuring input from datacentre market stakeholders and sociological experts, makes case for socially integrating server farms into society Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
11 Mar 2025
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
FlashBlade//Exa targets use cases between the enterprise and hyperscalers with a disaggregated architecture and its DFM flash modules to be available separately for the first time Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
05 Mar 2025
Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer
The US giant is top dog in revenue and market share as its storage array range – still largely EMC-derived – deepens its cloud, containers and as-a-service options Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
26 Feb 2025
VMware vSAN Max: What you need to know
We look at VMware vSAN Max storage: its best use cases, how to deploy it and on what hardware, the alternatives, and considerations in light of VMware’s Broadcom takeover Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2025
Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience
New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
19 Feb 2025
Budget flexibility for on-prem AI
Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Tip
19 Feb 2025
5 data center trends to watch in 2025
Data center trends for 2025 focus on sustainability and AI, highlighting energy demand, hyperscale data centers, innovative cooling methods, sustainable energy and edge computing. Continue Reading
By- Kelly Richardson, Associate Site Editor
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News
18 Feb 2025
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre
Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
11 Feb 2025
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 Feb 2025
AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
28 Jan 2025
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?
Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD? Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Jan 2025
DC01UK’s plan to build ‘Europe’s biggest AI datacentre’ wins local council approval
Plans to build a hyperscale datacentre to host artificial intelligence and cloud workloads on green belt land in Hertfordshire have been waved through by local planning officials Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
23 Jan 2025
Why run AI on-premise?
Much of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth has come from cloud-based tools. But there are very good reasons to host AI workloads on-premise Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2025
CMA adds ex-Amazon UK boss to board as provisional judgement in cloud probe nears
The former UK boss of Amazon UK has joined the CMA as its interim chair Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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Feature
22 Jan 2025
EdgeNebula: The UK startup turning disused office spaces into micro-datacentres
With the government committed to growing the number of UK datacentres, despite long-standing concerns about suitable sites and power availability, EdgeNebula thinks it might have the answer Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Jan 2025
Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do
Despite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
17 Jan 2025
Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions
Capgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable Continue Reading
By- Vipin Chimrani, Computer Weekly
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News
16 Jan 2025
DDN seeks AI leadership as it bags $300m investment
DDN aims to take high-performance computing expertise and become a leader in storage for artificial intelligence. It builds on years in the HPC space, and now has £300m from Blackstone, a fund with an AI focus Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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News
14 Jan 2025
Datacentre M&A deals reach record highs in 2024 fuelled by GenAI demand
Figures from Synergy Research Group reveal impact that generative AI is having on datacentre M&A deal values Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Opinion
14 Jan 2025
Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right
Critical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2025
Developing AI datacentres: Has the UK government got what it takes?
The UK government has unveiled its 50-point AI action plan, which commits to building sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities and accelerating AI datacentre developments - but questions remain about the viability of the plans Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
13 Jan 2025
Third-party storage: Key storage supplier offers in big three clouds
We look at storage supplier offerings available in the big three public clouds, their pros and cons, and key use cases Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2025
GenAI causing hyperscale datacentres to swell in size, research shows
Synergy Research Group data shows impact that generative AI demand will have on the number and size of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 Jan 2025
AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region
Amazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
08 Jan 2025
GenAI demand fuels record sales of datacentre hardware and software in 2024
Figures from Synergy Research Group highlight how demand for generative AI and GPU technology has generated record amounts of spending in the datacentre hardware and software space during 2024 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
05 Jan 2025
Digital Edge secures $1.6bn to fuel regional expansion
Singapore-based datacentre provider has raised over $1.6bn in equity and debt financing to meet growing demand for cloud and AI infrastructure across Asia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
17 Dec 2024
Digital Ethics Summit 2024: recognising AI’s socio-technical nature
At trade association TechUK’s eighth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials and industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools globally and the direction of travel set for 2025 Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
17 Dec 2024
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2024
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2024 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
12 Dec 2024
Google Cloud Platform: Key storage options in the Google Cloud
We survey the key cloud storage offers available from GCP, which include Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk and Filestore, with a range of service levels and app-specific options Continue Reading
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News
11 Dec 2024
IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’
Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
06 Dec 2024
Podcast: Storage and AI training, inference, and agentic AI
We talk to Hitachi Vantara CTO for AI Jason Hardy about training, inference and agentic AI, and how competing workloads bring context switching that storage for AI has to handle Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Dec 2024
AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations
At AWS Re:Invent 2024, CEO Matt Garman shared details of how its GenAI technologies are helping enterprises accelerate the pace of Microsoft and VMware datacentre migrations Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Dec 2024
VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp
NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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03 Dec 2024
Five reasons why – and when – cloud storage is the answer
We look at when cloud storage can be the best choice, with considerations that include performance, scalability and agility, cost, management simplicity, and security and resilience Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2024
AWS doubles down on ASEAN with cloud and AI investments
The cloud giant is fuelling growth in Southeast Asia with new infrastructure, skills development programmes and a focus on generative AI, empowering startups and enterprises alike Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Podcast
29 Nov 2024
Podcast: Areal density, AI design and the 50TB hard drive
We talk to Seagate about hard disk drives, the use of artificial intelligence to design them with higher areal density, more terabytes per platter, and capacities up to 50TB, especially with HAMR recording Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
27 Nov 2024
Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance
Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants Continue Reading
By- Kim Loohuis
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News
22 Nov 2024
Qlik expands cloud footprint to India
The data analytics and business intelligence software supplier is bolstering its presence in Asia-Pacific with a cloud region in India Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
21 Nov 2024
Nokia lands five-year extension on Microsoft Azure datacentre networking deal
Nokia is building on its existing partnership with Microsoft to support the software giant as it seeks to build out its datacentre footprint in response to the growing demand for artificial intelligence Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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Feature
17 Nov 2024
Storage technology explained: Flash vs HDD
In this guide, we examine the differences between flash storage and HDD, the rise of NVMe and much denser formats such as QLC, and whether or not flash will vanquish HDD in the all-flash datacentre Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
15 Nov 2024
CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024
Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Opinion
15 Nov 2024
Preparing for future AI energy disruption
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is set to outstrip the capacity of global power grids, threatening to derail deployments. With datacentres facing power shortages and some countries halting construction, organisations must act now to secure their AI future Continue Reading
By- Jorge Lopez
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News
12 Nov 2024
Gartner warns GenAI demand will lead to datacentre energy shortages
IT market watcher Gartner is warning enterprises that the growing demand for generative AI workloads will have a knock-on impact on energy supply and pricing in future years Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
12 Nov 2024
AWS storage: Key storage options in the Amazon cloud
We survey the key cloud storage options available from AWS, which include S3 object storage and its options, block storage in EBS and a range of file storage choices Continue Reading
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News
11 Nov 2024
NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives
Bigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Nov 2024
Storage explained: Consumption models of storage procurement
We look at consumption models of storage purchasing and how cloud operating models have made them mainstream and supplanted the traditional three-year lift-and-shift datacentre refresh Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 Nov 2024
Research: UK residents demonstrate ‘low-level’ understanding of what datacentres do
Research commissioned by colocation giant CyrusOne reveals there is work to be done by operators when it comes to educating UK residents on the benefits that datacentres being built in their local communities can bring Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
04 Nov 2024
TechUK calls for government support to help UK datacentre market reach growth potential
UK tech trade body TechUK claims the UK’s datacentre sector could become one of the country’s fastest-growing sectors with more government support Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 Oct 2024
Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access
Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Oct 2024
Western Digital boosts HDD capacity with 32TB shingled drives
An 11th platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases – allow for greater density and big gains in thoughput Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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Opinion
25 Oct 2024
How AI is radically changing the datacentre landscape
The rising demand for AI workloads and applications is changing the face of the datacentre market, with operators having to rethink the design and location of their facilities Continue Reading
By- Jennet Siebrits, head of UK research, CBRE
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News
21 Oct 2024
Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage
Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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Feature
17 Oct 2024
What are tensor processing units and what is their role in AI?
We look at Google’s TPUs – tensor processing units – and ask what makes them different to CPUs, GPUs and DPUs, as well as how you can take advantage of them in AI processing Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
16 Oct 2024
Philippines leaps forward in e-government with cloud-first strategy
A common infrastructure and a ‘once-only’ principle have propelled the Philippines up the UN’s E-Government Development Index, streamlining services and bolstering data sovereignty Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2024
Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training
Originally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
11 Oct 2024
Azure storage: Key options in Microsoft cloud storage
We survey the key cloud storage options available from Microsoft Azure, which include Files, Blob, Elastic SAN, Managed Disk and NetApp files, for a range of use cases Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Oct 2024
What the datacentre industry would like to see from the government's planning reforms
How can datacentre policy and planning reform better reflect the criticality of both energy and data? Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2024
Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns
Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
30 Sep 2024
Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future
The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
26 Sep 2024
UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
The prime minister has announced that £10bn in overseas investment has been secured to fund the construction of a hyperscale, AI datacentre in Northumberland Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
25 Sep 2024
NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO
We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Sep 2024
Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object
Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Sep 2024
NetApp maintains push to data management for AI
From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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23 Sep 2024
UK government adds datacentres to CNI regime: Why did it take so long?
After years of lobbying, the UK government has agreed to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, with the tech industry claiming the move is long overdue, but also recognition of the importance of server farms to the economy Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Sep 2024
DC01UK: Everything you need to know about the UK government-backed Hertfordshire mega-datacentre
A proposal to build one of the biggest datacentres in Europe has been submitted to Hertsmere Borough Council, and already has the support of the technology secretary and local councillors Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
19 Sep 2024
CMA extends investigation into anti-competitive behaviour in UK cloud market by four months
The UK competition watchdog has secured a four-month deadline extension for its investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, citing the need to probe Microsoft’s licensing practices as a causal factor in the decision Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
19 Sep 2024
UK government adds datacentres to CNI regime: Why did it take so long?
After years of lobbying, the UK government has agreed to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, with the tech industry claiming the move is long overdue, but also recognition of the importance of server farms to the economy Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
17 Sep 2024
Toshiba follows the pack with launch of 24TB and 28TB HDDs
Several months behind Seagate and Western Digital, Toshiba achieves the maximum possible in commercial HDDs and benefits from a speed boost over its rivals Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
10 Sep 2024
AWS to invest £8bn in building out UK datacentre footprint over next five years
Amazon Web Services has reinforced its commitment to the UK, with a five-year datacentre investment plan Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
04 Sep 2024
Cloud repatriation: How to do it successfully
The keys to reverse migration success include workload selection, how to prepare your on-premise infrastructure and future-proofing the decision to come back in-house Continue Reading
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News
03 Sep 2024
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 Aug 2024
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration
US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
16 Aug 2024
Vacancy rates in major European datacentre hubs hit all-time low, CBRE data finds
CBRE’s latest quarterly market figures suggest the major European datacentre hubs could be reaching a crisis point, as demand for new capacity outstrips supply Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Aug 2024
Dublin confirmed as world’s third-largest hyperscale datacentre hub
Data from Synergy Research Group confirms the majority of the world’s 20 biggest hyperscale datacentre hubs are in the US, but Europe is holding its own with Dublin Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK