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Datacentre systems management

• June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

  Sustainable Norwegian colocation firm Green Mountain expands to the UK with Infinity SDC buyout

  Infinity SDC has sold off its Romford facility to Norwegian colocation player, Green Mountain, whose backers claim the move will change the way other UK-based operators approach sustainability

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Castrol and Submer form partnership to popularise use of immersion cooling in datacentres

  BP-owned Castrol has agreed to work with immersion cooling specialist Submer to bring to market next-generation cooling fluids for use in datacentres

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1

  Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network configuration update error

  Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites inaccessible

• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Vodafone and Oracle Cloud strike multi-year deal to modernise telco’s European infrastructure

  Vodafone is expanding the range of cloud providers it works with, as it embarks on a multi-year revamp of the infrastructure underpinning its European operations

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches

  A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

  Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming

  Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

  Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal

  VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility

  Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

  Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Datacentres critical to Singapore but sustainability concerns remain

  Datacentres create jobs and contribute S$2bn to Singapore’s economy each year, but sustainability issues will need to be addressed to minimise their environmental impact

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

  In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint

  Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

  The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

  Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market

  As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  British Airways passengers suffer flight delays due to another IT glitch affecting London Heathrow

  Several weeks on from another systems outage that prompted it to cancel hundreds of short-haul flights, British Airways’ IT systems have been hit by another glitch

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

  Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

  Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London

  Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally

  The number of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world is set to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, as demand for capacity across the globe continues to soar

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Facebook owner Meta plots Spanish datacentre build to power ‘metaverse’ strategy

  Social media giant Meta wants to put Spain at the ‘heart’ of its vision for how the next-generation of the internet will work, with plans to build a datacentre and a remote working hub

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes

  Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities

  Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

  Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Interview: How do you define IBM?

  It is the world’s oldest computer company, and it was once said you didn’t get fired for buying from Big Blue. But a lot has changed. Sreeram Visvanathan, CEO for UK&I, explains how IBM is reinventing itself

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

  Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming

• February 14, 2022 14 Feb'22

  India to invest $1bn in quantum computing

  India plans to invest $1bn over the next five years to advance its capabilities in quantum technology, but it will need to have a tailored approach and to address the skills gap to succeed

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Adoption of smart grid-ready UPS tech by datacentres tipped for take-off in next four years

  IT market watcher Omdia claims the next four years could see a sizeable shift in how datacentres interact with the electricity grid as the use of smart grid-enabled UPS tech becomes more widespread

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

  High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

  With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline

  UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Oxford City Council services back online after weekend outage at SCC datacentre

  Council has confirmed its services are back up and running after its datacentre hosting partner suffered a minor outage over the weekend

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  NEXTDC opens edge datacentre on the Sunshine Coast

  NEXTDC’s SC1 facility is the first in a series of edge datacentre sites that will provide low-latency services to regional businesses and global linkages

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS outage: API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub

  One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Schneider Electric gifts the datacentre industry a five-part sustainability framework

  Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: UK IT leaders show preference for cloud-first strategies

  Research suggests firms across the UK and Europe that were quick to pivot to the cloud in response to the pandemic are prioritising investments that will help them make more of their off-premise infrastructure

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Lithium-ion batteries find their way into datacentres

  Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being deployed in uninterruptible power supply systems to reduce datacentre real estate and energy consumption

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Average size of hyperscale datacentres is on the rise

  Latest data from IT market watcher Synergy Research Group highlights how the number and size of hyperscale datacentres around the world is on the up

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change

  Public and private sector organisations need to pool their resources and collaborate to address the climate crisis by using open source technologies, urged Lord Maude during OpenUK’s COP26 event

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

  Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required