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Datacentre systems management

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light

  The government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2024

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

  Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Microsoft shares details of plans to reduce water usage of AI datacentres

  Microsoft has released details of the latest initiative to minimise the environmental footprint of its datacentres

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  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

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Intel confirms CEO Pat Gelsinger has left the company

  Several months after Gelsinger went public with plans for mass lay-offs at Intel, he has departed the company and left the board

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  AWS signs multi-year deal with GenAI platform provider to decarbonise its datacentres

  Amazon Web Services has signed a multi-year deal with Orbital Materials that will draw on GenAI skills to develop technologies that could decarbonise its datacentres

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  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

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  RWE bets on HPE Private Cloud AI for green energy push

  Energy firm RWE has selected the HPE Private Cloud AI setup to help it model and glean insights from weather data with greater ease

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  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

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy

  Microsoft pens artificial intelligence energy deal with United Arab Emirates oil giant ADNOC

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  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

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  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

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem

  Nvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025

  After a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  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

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers

  SUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  UK sees over £6bn boost in datacentre investments

  Following moves to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, a number of US tech providers have announced new UK investments

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer

  The supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  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

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  How VMware is supporting AI workloads

  VMware claims its Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform that speeds up AI deployment in private cloud environments is gaining significant traction in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  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

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Third of enterprises to automate majority of network activities by 2026

  Research shows infrastructure and operations leaders increasingly looking to AI-based analytics and augmented decision-making to improve operational resilience and responsiveness

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Nokia unveils automation to reduce datacentre network disruptions

  Global comms tech provider intros what it claims to be the industry’s most modern datacentre automation platform, bringing an intent-based approach to network automation

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  Mainframe teams turn to AI for modernisation gains

  Given the skills crisis, generative artificial intelligence may offer a way for IT and business leaders to modernise their mainframe environments

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24

  Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Government consults on lifting planning barriers to datacentre developments

  The government is inviting feedback on its plans to rejig the UK planning system to make it more supportive of datacentre developments

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS

  Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  How the Mercedes F1 IT team helped Lewis Hamilton win the British Grand Prix

  Computer Weekly went behind the scenes with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, during its victorious British Grand Prix weekend, to find out about the role of IT in beating the stopwatch

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Datacentre market supports Labour government’s review of blocked server farm builds

  New government has wasted no time in lowering planning permission barriers to new datacentre builds, with its disclosure that two previously denied projects are being placed under review

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Council denies planning bid for datacentre near M25 a second time on Green Belt grounds

  Buckinghamshire Council rejects a second attempt by investment firm Greystoke Land to secure permission for a datacentre development in Iver on Green Belt protection grounds

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Digging into the Labour Party’s election manifesto datacentre planning reform pledge

  The Labour Party is promising to reform the planning rules that govern whether new datacentre builds can proceed or not, but stakeholders warn the sector’s growth must not come at the expense of the environment

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market

  Fast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute

  MAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives

• April 05, 2024 05 Apr'24

  Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe

  Uptime Institute's annual outage tracker report suggests frequency and severity of crashes are declining, but warns datacentre operators not to get complacent

• March 25, 2024 25 Mar'24

  IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition

  Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

  Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres

  Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year

• March 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error

  An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority

  Latest data from TechTarget and ESG reveals changing attitudes towards cloud deployments within the enterprise

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Post-production company to go ‘all-in’ on Deep Green’s heat-reusing datacentre in Devon

  Datacentre startup Deep Green confirms long-standing client Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its workloads to its heat-reusing server farm, located in a leisure centre in Devon

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse

  UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  HM Treasury signs AWS hosting environment management deal with Keysource

  HM Treasury has enlisted datacentre management services provider to help operate the AWS environment used to host cross-government spending data system

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project

  The University of Lincoln reveals details of the work it has done, with the help of Schneider Electric and RMD UK, to ensure the resiliency of its edge datacentre environments

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push

  Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia