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
10 Jun 2025
Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era
Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
18 May 2025
AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing
The compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
18 May 2020
Swedish mining firm LKAB revamps data backup setup to support downtime avoidance goals
State-owned Swedish mining company LKAB scooped the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards. Here we run through what the project involved Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
15 May 2020
Coronavirus: Hardening up datacentre equipment supply chains post-Covid-19
Fears about hardware shortages, staff absenteeism and how to keep sites up and running with social distancing have dogged the datacentre sector since the start of the pandemic, so how is the sector faring? Continue Reading
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11 May 2020
AWS vs Microsoft: US JEDI contract dispute develops into war of words between tech giants
Amazon and Microsoft are embroiled in a ‘battle of the blogs’ over the former’s continued efforts to get its claims that it lost out on a major US cloud contract due to ‘significant political interference’ fully investigated Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
07 May 2020
Amazon and Microsoft dominate European cloud infrastructure market, shows Synergy Research
Such is the hold that Amazon and Microsoft have on the cloud infrastructure market across Europe, other smaller players will struggle to get a look in, claims IT analyst house Synergy Research Group Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
07 May 2020
Using AI and digital twins to future-proof datacentre designs
In this guest post, Paul Finch, CEO of Essex-based colocation provider Kao Data, sets out the potential for digital twins and AI technology to usher in a rethink of how designing datacentres is ... Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
06 May 2020
Sustainability credentials of underground datacentre in Norway lure green investment fund
Norway’s Lefdal Mining Datacenter has designs on becoming Europe's largest server farm, and its green credentials have secured further investment to help it reach its goal Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
05 May 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 56
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to discuss the 20th anniversary of the Love Bug virus, Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism, the rise of virtual events in the wake of Covid-19 and Amazon’s difficulties with striking warehouse workers, concerning the virus Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
04 May 2020
Digital Realty doubles down on sustainability with pledge to cut carbon emissions by 2030
Colocation giant Digital Realty is embarking on a 10-year, business-wide carbon emissions reduction quest, led by climate science Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 Apr 2020
UK government secures Microsoft Azure discounts for public sector
Procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service have secured an addendum to a long-standing Microsoft preferential pricing deal that now includes Azure public cloud services Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
28 Apr 2020
AWS expands beyond edge connectivity in Italy with datacentre region opening
Amazon Web Services says opening a datacentre region in Covid-19-hit Italy indicates its commitment to delivering cloud services to communities that need them most Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
28 Apr 2020
APAC edge computing market set to grow
China and Japan will account for the lion’s share of Asia-Pacific’s edge computing market as more organisations in the region look to streamline processes and improve productivity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
24 Apr 2020
Dark data is contributing to carbon emissions
Almost six million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere this year as a result of dark data, Veritas research finds Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
24 Apr 2020
Intel clean rooms work through lockdown
Intel has reported an increase in PC and datacentre processor sales, reflecting the shift to online and home schooling and working Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
23 Apr 2020
Datacentre M&A closed deal values exceed last year’s total just three months into 2020
Latest market tracker data shows rebound in datacentre M&A deal values as enterprises look to outsource more of their IT and move to the cloud Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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20 Apr 2020
Edge computing environments: what you need to know
An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle. Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2020
AWS slams lack of White House cooperation in JEDI cloud contract investigation
The Department of Defense claims the Inspector General's report into the controversial JEDI cloud contract should nullify a number of allegations pertaining to the deal, but Amazon Web Services seems to disagree Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: Round-up of free cloud infrastructure services to support enterprises through Covid-19
Amazon, Google, Alibaba and OVHcloud are among public cloud providers offering enterprises, researchers and healthcare free access to services to support them through the coronavirus pandemic Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
14 Apr 2020
Podcast: Ruthlessly prioritise applications during Covid-19
We talk to Alex McMullan, CTO international at Pure Storage, about scaling up storage and compute for remote working and why that means prioritising applications Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Apr 2020
Multicloud storage 101: Pros, cons, pitfalls and strategies
Not putting all your eggs in one basket can be helpful to an enterprise’s resilience strategy. We look at multicloud storage and the benefits and pitfalls it brings Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe
Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Apr 2020
Singapore researchers get priority access to HPC resources
Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre is fast-tracking access to its high-performance computing resources for researchers working on Covid-19-related projects Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
01 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: Google Cloud CEO on how its tech is supporting the fight against Covid-19
From public sector organisations to retailers, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reveals details of how the firm's tech is helping enterprises in multiple verticals shore up their infrastructure and get on the front foot in the fight against coronavirus Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
01 Apr 2020
GDS champions cross-functionality approach to cloud adoption in public sector guidance
Extensive research into cloud adoption trends in the public sector by Government Digital Service (GDS) results in guidance detailing how IT leaders can make the most of their off-premise investments Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
01 Apr 2020
Malaysia’s business continuity planning readiness a mixed bag
Larger Malaysian enterprises have BCP in place, but SMEs lag behind and will find it harder to weather the Covid-19 storm Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2020
DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak
Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online services Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
25 Mar 2020
Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019
Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
24 Mar 2020
Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research
With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
24 Mar 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 52
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna talk about the Covid-19 coronavirus and what it means for retail, how data can be analysed to combat it, and its implications for datacentre modernisation programmes Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
24 Mar 2020
Edge computing environments: what you need to know
An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates
Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online
TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
13 Mar 2020
US Department of Defense requests time to re-evaluate section of AWS and Microsoft JEDI bids
The Department of Defense is to request a resubmission of information from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services about their JEDI bids, as the long-running US cloud procurement saga drags on Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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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12 Mar 2020
IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep
The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
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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News
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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Feature
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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Feature
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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News
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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News
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, Informa TechTarget
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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
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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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
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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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
By- Alex Cruickshank
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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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, Informa TechTarget
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News
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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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
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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News
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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News
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, Informa TechTarget
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News
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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News
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, Informa 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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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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
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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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
By- Alex Cruickshank
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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
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK