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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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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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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12 Mar 2020
Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace
Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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10 Mar 2020
University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough
Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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05 Mar 2020
Cache vs tier: What’s the difference between cache and storage?
We look at the key distinctions between cache and tiers of storage, and where the line has become blurred with fast flash, 3D Xpoint and storage class memory technologies Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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27 Feb 2020
CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs
Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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20 Feb 2020
Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud
Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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18 Feb 2020
Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change
Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
12 Feb 2020
How AI and data analytics are driving composable infrastructure adoption in datacentres
As enterprises continue to grapple with how to make sense of their big data stores, organisations are having to rethink how they kit out their datacentres, with composable infrastructure leading the way Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2020
Alibaba versus Amazon, Microsoft and Google: Does the Chinese cloud challenger have what it takes?
Chinese public cloud challenger Alibaba is undoubtedly making waves in the west, but does it have what it takes to seriously trouble the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the infrastructure-as-a-service market? Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2020
Google Cloud confirmed to be a $10bn revenue run rate business
Google parent Alphabet has separated out the contribution its cloud arm makes to its overall business for the first time in its fourth-quarter financial results Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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04 Feb 2020
Record-breaking rise in global cloud infrastructure spend between Q3 and Q4
Synergy Research Group’s fourth-quarter look at the cloud infrastructure market reveals a huge jump in sequential spend since the third quarter Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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03 Feb 2020
India’s 2020 budget to boost local tech sector
A flurry of investments in quantum computing, datacentres and broadband connectivity is expected to shore up India’s technology industry from this year Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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31 Jan 2020
AWS downplays risk of competitors threatening its public cloud dominance during Q4 results
Amazon Web Services posts fourth-quarter revenue of $9.95bn for the three months to 31 December 2019 as speculation persists about the rising threat from Microsoft Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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30 Jan 2020
UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption
Contributors to UKCloud's public sector-focused State of Cloud Adoption report flag barriers to using off-premise technologies, but could adopting a multi-cloud strategy assist with overcoming them? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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30 Jan 2020
Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site
Microsoft declines to comment on a local media report that the site of its Israel datacentre campus has been subject to stoppage notices after two accidents there in two days Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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29 Jan 2020
CTO interview: Juan Villamil discusses changing IT culture
Juan Villamil has worked at the Department for Work and Pensions for nearly five years. As he heads off to take up a new challenge at Imperial College, we speak to him about change and transformation Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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27 Jan 2020
NHS Digital completes first two major service migrations to the AWS cloud
The digital arm of the National Health Service confirms the system moves are the first of many service migrations it is planning to undertake Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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23 Jan 2020
How AWS is helping boost rugby fans’ engagement in the Guinness Six Nations championship
With the Six Nations rugby championship about to kick off, we find out how Amazon Web Services is helping to enhance the viewing experience for fans in 170 countries Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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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21 Jan 2020
Mixing it up: Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT
Cloud computing has long been tipped as the technology that will displace enterprise datacentres in CIOs’ affections, but that is not quite how the story is playing out Continue Reading
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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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15 Jan 2020
Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play
Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Alex Cruickshank
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10 Jan 2020
Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows
In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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06 Jan 2020
A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending
The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation" Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
02 Jan 2020
Processors re-imagined: Will cloud and AI lead mean all change in the datacentre?
We look at the changes cloud-native platforms and artificial intelligence could bring about in the datacentre. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Dec 2019
Overcoming the infrastructure and connectivity challenges of cloud gaming
The cloud gaming market has a number of infrastructure challenges to overcome to reach its potential, and the supplier community is intent on helping it address them Continue Reading
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27 Dec 2019
Top 10 cloud stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2019 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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27 Dec 2019
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
20 Dec 2019
From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2019
Home Office details seven-point plan to cutting its Immigration Technology team's cloud costs by 40%
The Home Office has revealed how its Immigration Technology team cut cloud costs through spot and reserved instances, scheduling, auto-scaling and encouraging developers to spring clean test environments Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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18 Dec 2019
Google declares report on alleged public cloud exit discussions ‘inaccurate’
A US media report claiming senior management teams at Google and its parent company Alphabet discussed exiting the public cloud market in 2018 has been described as “not accurate” by the firm Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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17 Dec 2019
Ramp-up in hyperscalers’ datacentre spend in Q3 puts 2019 on course to become record-breaking year
Latest datacentre investment data from Synergy Research Group reveals a resurgence in hyperscale investment in the third quarter Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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05 Dec 2019
AWS CEO Andy Jassy blames 'significant political interference' for Amazon losing $10bn JEDI deal
AWS CEO Andy Jassy claims White House meddling led to it losing out to Microsoft on the US Department of Defense JEDI contract, despite its cloud platform being demonstrably superior Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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04 Dec 2019
AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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04 Dec 2019
AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks
AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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03 Dec 2019
AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia
AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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28 Nov 2019
Record-breaking colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed space availability concerns
Latest market data from real estate company CBRE suggests the final three months of 2019 could turn the year into another record-breaker for the European colocation market Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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E-Zine
21 Nov 2019
CW Nordics: Automation pays off for Sweden’s social workers
Software robots are freeing up time for social workers in Sweden to help benefits claimants find employment and to receive the money they are entitled to. Also in this issue, read how Sweden’s SEB bank is using a Google-inspired, cloud-native core banking platform, and why India is leading the pack when it comes to IT outsourcing from the Nordic countries. Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2019
Fashion retailer AllSaints on using Google Cloud to handle online shopping traffic peaks
AllSaints shifts website workloads into Google Cloud to protect against website downtime, as well as embarking on microservices-led push to modernise its infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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20 Nov 2019
Carbon Black to open Australia datacentre in 2020
Australia datacentre comes on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black and will serve organisations with data sovereignty requirements Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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19 Nov 2019
APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance
The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2019
How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency
Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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E-Zine
07 Nov 2019
CW Benelux: Dutch banks fight money laundering
Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts. Also read in this issue how companies could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those at rival employers, and why a Dutch province is pioneering a no-code software development platform. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2019
TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts
Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
05 Nov 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 35
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team pick over the finale of Channel 4 reality show The Circle, talk General Election tech and find out why enterprises are not prepared to pay a premium for business applications infused with AI Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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31 Oct 2019
Government review of cloud-first policy concludes guidance should remain unchanged
A review into the continued relevance of the UK government’s six-year-old cloud-first policy has concluded its ‘brand recognition’ is too strong for it to be scrapped, according to GDS Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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31 Oct 2019
Digital Realty and Interxion gun for market leader Equinix through colocation mega-merger
The colocation market is continuing to consolidate, with Digital Realty confirming plans to acquire and merge with Europe's second biggest colocation provider, Interxion Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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22 Oct 2019
Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre
The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
17 Oct 2019
Do non-compete clauses risk stifling cloud innovation?
Non-compete clauses in tech employment contracts are commonplace – and understandably so – but could they be limiting innovation in the public cloud? Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2019
All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments
As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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07 Oct 2019
Interview: BHF on using cloud and big data to improve heart patient outcomes
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has set itself the lofty goal of eradicating the fear of developing heart and circulatory disease by 2030, with the help of cloud, big data and personalisation technologies Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
02 Oct 2019
Data storage: The top five storage deployment pitfalls
Key pitfalls in data storage include silos, under-utilisation, backup and disaster recovery, plus neglect of skills and application requirements. We ask analysts how to avoid them Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Oct 2019
Locking down the datacentre: A security checklist for IT administrators
As datacentres become increasingy decentralised and the security threats they face increase in number and complexity, IT admins are at risk of becoming overwhelmed as they strive to keep on top of their server farm estates Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2019
German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker
Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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25 Sep 2019
UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle tech with cloud MoU
Government procurement chiefs in the Crown Commercial Service sign new agreement with database giant aimed at making it easier and cheaper for public sector organisations to use its cloud Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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25 Sep 2019
European enterprises 'waste' £24,000 a day on unused cloud services, says Insight research
The latest Insight Intelligent Technology Index report highlights the economic impacts of wasted cloud resources within European enterprises Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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25 Sep 2019
Atom Bank CTO on ditching its datacentres and moving to the Google Cloud Platform
Atom Bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya describes what is behind the mobile-only challenger bank’s large-scale, cloud-focused reboot of its infrastructure setup Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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24 Sep 2019
Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government
Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Alex Cruickshank
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
19 Sep 2019
EBA outsourcing guidelines: What banks, fintechs and cloud providers need to know
The regulatory landscape for financial services and outsourcing will undergo a refresh this month with new guidance from the European Banking Authority. We look at what banks, fintechs and cloud firms need to do Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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16 Sep 2019
DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020
Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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12 Sep 2019
Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility
Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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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10 Sep 2019
Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software
Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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09 Sep 2019
Mutlicloud use rife in financial services sector, suggests YellowDog research
Poll of 200 IT decision makers in the financial services sector highlights how this highly regulated industry continues to warm towards using cloud Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
09 Sep 2019
Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre
Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
05 Sep 2019
Cutting the cord: Negotiating cloud contracts with problematic customers
How accountable should cloud firms be for the actions of the customers that use their platforms, and how much thought should they give to aligning themselves with problematic brands before hosting them? Continue Reading
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04 Sep 2019
NHS Shared Business Services sets ‘simplified’ public sector cloud procurement framework live
Twenty-four suppliers selected to populate cloud procurement framework, which is geared towards simplifying the purchasing of off-premise services for public sector organisations Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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04 Sep 2019
PDG, Equinix tap booming APAC datacentre market
Major datacentre providers are expanding their footprint in a region that is set to become the biggest datacentre market by 2020 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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04 Sep 2019
Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2
Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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28 Aug 2019
European colocation market set for another record-breaking year, but London market growth slows
CBRE's quarterly colocation tracker shows the Frankfurt market is leading the way in take-up rates, as London’s 2019 growth rates suffer a hangover Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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28 Aug 2019
IBM and Vodafone offer National Express a smooth ride to hybrid cloud
Coach operator National Express signs eight-year IT modernisation deal with IBM and Vodafone to provide it with a cloud platform to underpin future digital transformation plans Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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27 Aug 2019
Oracle to launch fresh court appeal against US Department of Defense’s $10bn JEDI cloud contract
Database giant has confirmed it will appeal the US Federal Court’s dismissal of its previous legal challenge over JEDI cloud contract Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
23 Aug 2019
Finding a fix for the IT industry's recruitment woes: A datacentre perspective
The datacentre industry is in the midst of a well-documented skills crisis, caused by a mix of sector-specific challenges and some more generalised ones Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2019
GoCo Group backs Microsoft Azure to deliver ‘savings-as-a-service’ customer acquisition strategy
GoCo Group technology director Kieron Nolan explains the firm’s plans to migrate most of its price comparison platforms to the Microsoft Azure cloud in 2020 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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E-Zine
22 Aug 2019
CW Nordics: Copenhagen woos tech startups
Copenhagen offers all the advantages startups need to get off the ground and many are setting up with the intention of staying there for the long haul. Also read how shipping giant Maersk is employing a cloud-first strategy to disrupt competition and build innovation, and why three Finnish banks are sharing a core IT platform. Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2019
Inside Facebook’s engineering culture
An open and transparent culture that encourages developers to take risks and assume the best intent of co-workers has been the defining character of Facebook’s engineering organisation Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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21 Aug 2019
Transport and logistics transformation driven by data
Growth in data connectivity and the adoption of technologies such as robotic process automation are fuelling a tech revolution in transport and logistics Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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15 Aug 2019
Cloud demand fuels 18% rise in colocation M&A activity in first half of 2019
Merger and acquisition activity in colocation market leaps as demand for cloud continues to reshape the enterprise and hyperscale datacentre landscape Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
13 Aug 2019
Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry
The financial services community has gone from being one of the least likely sectors to adopt cloud to becoming one of its keenest users, as regulator attitudes to using the technology have become more accommodating Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
07 Aug 2019
Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change
The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems Continue Reading
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07 Aug 2019
The $10bn question: Why is the US government’s JEDI cloud contract taking so long to award?
The announcement of who has won the US government’s controversial $10bn, decade-long cloud contract is nearly 12 months overdue. So what’s holding it up? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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07 Aug 2019
BA IT systems failure results in cancelled flights and delays at London airports
British Airways is experiencing unspecified technical difficulties at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London City airports, prompting it to cancel flights Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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06 Aug 2019
Scottish government launches £30m Cloud Services Framework with a 50% SME supplier list
Framework has gone live with 14 suppliers making the cut, who will be on hand to provide public sector organisations in Scotland with access to public, private and hybrid cloud services, as well as colocation capacity Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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01 Aug 2019
Amazon to build second wind power plant in Ireland to support AWS green cloud push
Amazon sets out plans to ramp up availability of green power in Ireland and US, as its push to make its datacentre fleet run in a more sustainable way continues apace Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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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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
By- Gerard O'Dwyer
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30 Jul 2019
Google bolsters hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises through VMware partnership
VMware-Google hybrid cloud partnership should pave the way for enterprises to run their vSphere-based workloads on the search giant's public cloud platform with greater ease Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
26 Jul 2019
Evolution in action: How datacentre hardware is moving to meet tomorrow’s tech challenges
The datacentre industry is in a state of flux, as new and emerging tech trends highlight hardware and performance shortcomings in legacy sites, prompting operators to rethink how they kit out their facilities Continue Reading
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26 Jul 2019
AWS growth rate slows in Q2, as Amazon retail's run of quarterly record profit growth ends
Amazon's latest set of results suggest the law of big numbers might be kicking in for its cloud division, while its retail arm grapples with spiralling costs pertaining to the roll-out of its one-day delivery service Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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25 Jul 2019
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud
Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK