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Datacentre systems management

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco

  Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

  BP bridged its cloud gap with a cautious and calculated approach using a mix of private cloud, public cloud and in-house IT infrastructure

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Serco outsources IT infrastructure and transformation

  Business service provider Serco contracts SunGard for its UK IT infrastructure that will help Serco increase its cloud services

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?

  Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Users’ top datacentre pain points

  Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  UK cloud firm Iomart sees annual profits soar by 56%

  Cloud computing company Iomart has reported a pre-tax profit up 56% to £10.7m for the year ending March 2013

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  SME Arcus brings AWS IaaS and PaaS to public sector with G-Cloud

  UK SME Arcus Global has become the first certified Amazon Web Services reseller on the government’s third G-Cloud framework

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Cloud critical to e-governance in India

  The Government of India is expanding e-governance throughout the country and is working on embracing cloud computing for it.

• March 17, 2013 17 Mar'13

  Human error most likely cause of datacentre downtime, finds study

  Human error such as inadvertently adjusting the temperature or pulling power cords from an asset are biggest causes of datacentre downtime

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Iceland prepares to lure Silicon Valley IT giants to build datacentres

  Despite having the facilities to build a green datacentre, big firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google have not opted for a base in Iceland

• March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

  Verne Global expands green datacentre footprint in Iceland

  Verne Global has selected Colt's UK-made modular datacentres to expand its Icelandic facility

• 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 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

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Oracle buys cloud services provider Instantis

  Oracle is buying Instantis, a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company, to boost its cloud portfolio

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Cheshire Constabulary polices network with SolarWinds

  Police force in Cheshire uses SolarWinds’ infrastructure monitoring tools to keep its IT out of trouble

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Google offers Street View of datacentres

  Google offers Street View of its datacentres and a virtual tour of how users' data is stored, with an emphasis on security practices

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe: Horizon Suite to help IT manage corporate assets on Apple iOS

  VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers’ mobile devices including on Apple iPhones securely

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe 2012 kicks off in Barcelona

  VMworld Europe 2012 opens with updates from VMware on the cloud and new management suites

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Complex and non-transparent Oracle licensing costing firms millions

  Companies virtualising Oracle databases with VMware platforms face millions in penalties over non-compliance

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Case study: How to virtualise SAP and migrate from IBM onto x86

  At VMworld Europe Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores gave an overview of how it virtualised an SAP environment and migrated from an IBM mainframe to x86

• 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

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Facebook engineer builds heatmap tool for datacentre troubleshooting

  A Facebook engineer has built a server-monitoring tool using heatmaps to assess the status of cache systems and fix datacentre problems

• October 13, 2011 13 Oct'11

  Best of VMworld Europe 2010 winner adopts Cisco UCS

  An Italian bank expands its virtual infrastructure to meet growing needs after winning the “Best virtualisation and server consolidation project” award at VMworld Europe 2010.

• June 14, 2011 14 Jun'11

  VDI technology rollout at Sterlite Technologies reaps rich dividends

  Sterlite Technologies deployed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology, and was rewarded with cost and energy gains. Here’s how they went about it