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Datacentre capacity planning

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace

  Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom

  Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance

  Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Windsor and Maidenhead council migrates services to cloud

  Windsor and Maidenhead borough council will migrate critical services such as childcare, benefits and transport services to the cloud by 2014

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

  National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

  Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds

• November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12

  Firms must measure overall environmental impact of datacentres

  IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre’s power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make it truly sustainable

• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe 2012: Key highlights and technology takeaways

  VMworld Europe 2012 focused on software defined datacentres, cloud automation, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and building new IT skills

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  Case study: How WorldPay built its IT from scratch after RBS split

  Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own since it was sold in 2010

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Google opens €75m energy-efficient datacentre facility in Dublin

  Google’s new €75m Dublin datacentre facility that that uses air-cooling for energy efficency is now operational

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Need for increased network bandwidth is IT's biggest datacentre pain-point

  A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres

• March 14, 2012 14 Mar'12

  VKernel vOPS customers gain Quest integration sooner than anticipated

  VKernel vOPS now includes Quest vFoglight and vOptimizer, just months after the merger. Is the knee-jerk integration right for tomorrow’s cloud infrastructures?

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Surrey County Council's data centre efficiency project: Case study

  The council will replace its existing primary IT facility this spring with a new energy efficient data centre facility which will help it save around £160,000 every year.

• December 19, 2011 19 Dec'11

  Virtualisation technologies: hits and misses of 2011

  Amid a slew of virtualisation products and management suites that emerged in 2011, some products such as Spring platform impressed users, while others such as VMware MVP didn’t.

• October 11, 2011 11 Oct'11

  Moving from in-house IT to third-party hosting services: Case study

  A supplier of civil engineering and building materials moved its IT infrastructure to a third-party data centre to resolve its in-house IT problems, including cooling and flooding issues.

• August 18, 2011 18 Aug'11

  Citrix buys RingCube for desktop personalisation: News in brief

  Citrix has acquired RingCube, a desktop personalisation software provider, for an undisclosed sum. Citrix will add RingCube’s capabilities to its XenDesktop platform.

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Interxion hits colocation sweet spot and sees market shares soar

  Colocation provider Interxion recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and saw its shares soar 18%; plus more news in brief.

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  NetApp bags Akorri to bolster capacity planning lineup

  NetApp has entered into an agreement to buy data centre management software provider Akorri Networks; plus more news in brief.