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March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18
Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience

The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience
March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18
Developed APAC countries well-poised for the cloud

With strong policies in data protection and cyber security, Japan, Australia and Singapore are among countries that are most prepared to reap the benefits of the cloud
March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18
G-Cloud 10 launch date confirmed for June 2018

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) confirms it will start accepting new bids from suppliers wanting to join the tenth iteration of the G-Cloud framework from April 2018, in anticipation of the next version going live in June
March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18
US defence chiefs cut $1bn cloud contract with AWS partner amid anti-trust complaints

The US Department of Defense confirms it is revising down the cost and scope of a billion dollar cloud deal awarded to an AWS partner, after critics picked holes in the procurement process

March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18
Microsoft courts US government cloud users with Azure Stack integration promise

Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get the US government using its cloud in anger, with the promise of a forthcoming Azure Stack integration and new datacentre regions to house “secret” classified data
March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18
Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks
March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18
Blockchain investment firm acquires Swedish colocation provider Hydro66

Canadian investment firm Arctic Blockchain has acquired renewably powered colocation specialist Hydro66 to cash in on demand for datacentre capacity from cryptocurrency miners
March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18
Cloud firms need $1bn datacentre investment a quarter to compete with AWS and co

IT service providers must invest “at least” $1bn a quarter to keep up with the pace of Amazon, Google and Microsoft hyperscale cloud growth, research suggests
March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18
Contractor confidence in HMRC’s IR35 online assessment tool remains low

Research suggests contractors still have misgivings about using HM Revenue & Customs' IR35 online assessment tool, one year on from launch
February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18
Legacy lock-in and lack of skills hamper public sector cloud adoption

Migrating from legacy lock-in and the ability to manage workloads in cloud infrastructure are among the major challenges that are slowing down public sector cloud adoption

February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18
FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise
February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18
NHS Digital plots Office 365 and NHSmail integration to boost collaboration in healthcare

NHS Digital outlines delivery timeline for integrating NHSmail with Microsoft Office 365, as it strives to improve collaboration between health and social care stakeholders
February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18
OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers

In a whitepaper co-authored by a number of open source advocates, the OpenStack Foundation makes the case for taking a teamwork approach to tackling the barriers to widespread edge computing adoption
February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18
UKCloud to open Microsoft Azure Stack region for public sector users

Public sector-focused cloud services provider UKCloud is in the throes of beta testing its Azure Stack setup, which will run in the same datacentres as the Cabinet Office's Crown Hosting Service
February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18
IT managers in the dark over work-life balance pressure of on-call work, research shows

PagerDuty's inaugural work-life balance report highlights how unspoken frustrations about punishing on-call schedules can contribute towards employee attrition and workplace stress
February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18
CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres

The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres
February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18
Traditional datacentres to host just 6% of workloads by 2021, predicts Cisco

The seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index highlights how the demand for workloads hosted in traditional private datacentres is continuing to wane in the face of cloud
February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
AWS becomes $20bn company as demand for public cloud continues to soar

Amazon Web Services enjoys another stellar quarter of revenue growth, while its parent company continues to profit off the success of Alexa devices
February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives
January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18
Colocation providers told to team up with telcos to meet edge datacentre demand

Colocation providers can ill afford to take an “us and them” view of telcos when it comes to addressing the burgeoning demand for edge computing resources, says Datacloud UK panel
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
Researchers calculate financial toll of cloud outages on US business sector

A joint report by Lloyd's of London and AIR Worldwide reveals the financial disruption a three to six-day cloud outage could cause to US-based businesses
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
Case study: Network Rail uses cloud to get its digital data preservation plans on track

Digital-by-default railway infrastructure operator, Network Rail, is building a cloud-based archive to protect the organisation’s data assets for future use
January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18
Irish planning chiefs dismiss appeal against Amazon's €1bn datacentre build

Irish planning chiefs have granted Amazon permission to proceed with its plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin to support the continued European growth of its cloud business
January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18
NHS Digital declares the public cloud a safe place to store patient data

The health service’s technology organisation, NHS Digital, has issued guidance confirming the public cloud as a safe place to store patient data
January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18
Privacy International warns of global risk to citizens if Microsoft loses US data access appeal

Privacy International warns of widespread privacy violations if Microsoft loses US data access appeal
January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18
451 Research shines light on how enterprise attitudes to digital transformation are evolving

Enterprises are capitalising on their infrastructure upgrades and are increasing their use of cloud to take advantage of emerging technologies and accelerate business change, says 451 Research
January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18
Google vows to simplify creation of custom machine learning models for developers

Google’s ongoing push to lower the barriers to machine learning and artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises moves up a gear with custom model creation
January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18
Dream machines: how IT is changing the world of neuroscience

We talk to computer scientist and entrepreneur Jamil El Imad about the cutting-edge intersection of neuroscience and IT
January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18
Google to open five more datacentre regions across the globe in 2018

Cloud giant Google is on a mission to boost the capacity and performance of its services, through investments in new datacentres and subsea cables
January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18
AWS commits to expansion of UK datacentre region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a third availability zone to its London region, as demand for locally hosted cloud services continues to grow in the UK
January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18
Demand for cloud-enabling infrastructure products soared in 2017, IDC research shows

IDC's latest cloud IT infrastructure market tracker shows the demand for public and private cloud-enabling servers, storage and Ethernet switches is showing no signs of slowing
January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18
Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...
January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18
Cabinet Office unveils renewed shared IT services programme for government

The Cabinet Office reveals details of its latest push to make the shared services model take off in government
January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18
2017 cemented cloud as the ‘new normal’ for enterprise IT, claims Synergy Research Group

According to Synergy Research Group, 2017 marked another important milestone in enterprise adoption and acceptance of cloud
January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18
Meltdown and Spectre: AWS, Google and Microsoft rush to patch cloud chip flaws

Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users
January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18
Nuffield Health hits peak performance after switching to SDN

The non-profit healthcare and fitness organisation has improved both its network and wider IT performance after switching over to SDN technology
December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17
Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017
December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17
US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets
November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17
AWS fleshes out cloud database proposition, while taking aim at Oracle

The second-day Re:Invent keynote saw AWS lift the veil on 22 new cloud products and services, and aim a few more jabs at Oracle's database proposition
November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2018

A “mega cloud” that weaves together multiple private and public clouds, along with the use of AI to perform data-driven “thinking tasks”, could emerge next year
November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17
AWS CEO says enterprise appetites for proprietary database tech are waning

Speaking at the Re:Invent 2017 Partner Summit Keynote, AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at the firm's cloud competitors, and says the functionality gap between them all is widening
November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17
Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre
November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17
Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors

Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold
October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17
Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17
Apple Irish datacentre objectors to seek fresh High Court appeal against project

The remaining objectors to Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry, Ireland, are preparing to launch another appeal against the project, which has now been delayed by more than two and a half years
October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17
Puppet on why people, process and technology are mission critical to DevOps success

At the PuppetConf user and partner summit in San Francisco, Puppet and its customers shared insights on how best to address the people, process and technology sides of the DevOps success equation
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
GE opens up on how its move to the AWS public cloud is progressing

The multi-national conglomerate claims to have migrated more than 2,000 apps to the AWS cloud, as its digital transformation efforts continue apace
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on why empathy is essential for technology innovation

Speaking at the London launch of his Hit Refresh book, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed how a shortfall in empathy nearly cost him a job at the firm in the 1990s
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
Peer-to-peer CDN improves customer experience for Equinix

Datacentre and colocation services provider Equinix cut page load times at its customer information resource library using a developing peer-to-peer model of content delivery networking