Data centre
Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.
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News
20 Nov 2024
Digital Catapult hails shared infrastructure as route to decarbonisation for logistics sector
Digital Catapult has opened up about the success it has seen with using shared digital infrastructure to help the transport-logistics sector work more collaboratively to cut carbon emissions Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Nov 2024
Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months
If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
06 Mar 2020
IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India
Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
05 Mar 2020
Cache vs tier: What’s the difference between cache and storage?
We look at the key distinctions between cache and tiers of storage, and where the line has become blurred with fast flash, 3D Xpoint and storage class memory technologies Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Mar 2020
Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme
The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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E-Zine
03 Mar 2020
What will points-based immigration mean for IT recruitment?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the government’s new points-based immigration rules and assess the implications for the tech sector. IR35 tax rules change in April – we find out how IT contractors need to prepare. And we examine whether the rise of cloud is really displacing the datacentre. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2020
Mixing it up: Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT
Cloud computing has long been tipped as the technology that will displace enterprise datacentres in CIOs’ affections, but that is not quite how the story is playing out. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2020
Rook 101: Building software-defined containerised storage in Kubernetes
Rook – think castles, not birds – uses the principles of containerisation and the methods used in Kubernetes to build storage that’s abstracted from the hardware it lives on Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
02 Mar 2020
Datacentres operators must move away from diesel backup generators to give back to grid
While the diesel backup generators used by datacentre operators have a limited environmental impact, using them for extended periods of time to power sites to feed energy back into the grid is not a sustainable solution to growing electricity demand Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
28 Feb 2020
Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers
Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Feb 2020
Hidden cost of cloud puts brakes on migration projects
Lack of skills and complexities in rebuilding software for the cloud are among the main factors inhibiting cloud success Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
27 Feb 2020
CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs
Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Feb 2020
IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation
Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
26 Feb 2020
How lack of discipline can kill cloud efficiency and ROI
In this guest post, Dale Vile, CEO and research director at IT market watcher Freeform Dynamics, tells CIOs not to be afraid to change the course of their cloud plans as their IT and business needs ... Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
26 Feb 2020
Cloud Snooper firewall bypass may be work of nation state
Cloud Snooper deploys a combination of specialised techniques to sneak past enterprise firewalls, warns Sophos Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
26 Feb 2020
How tech suppliers are easing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption
The tech industry has risen to the challenge of helping enterprises ease their transition to hybrid cloud, but issues remain Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
25 Feb 2020
Sports retailer Decathlon left employee data exposed
More than 123 million records were accidentally exposed on an unsecured ElasticSearch server Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
25 Feb 2020
The Security Interviews: Gil Shwed’s 10-year vision for security
Check Point founder Gil Shwed discusses his new Infinity Next concept and how he plans to remodel the world of cyber security in the next 10 years Continue Reading
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Podcast
25 Feb 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 48
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss tech billionaires pledging to solve climate change, M&S smart lighting and open data in the EU Continue Reading
By- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
25 Feb 2020
Cloud data leaks compounded by lack of automation tools
Data leaks caused by misconfigured clouds are being compounded because security teams lack appropriate automation and integration tools, according to a report Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
24 Feb 2020
McAfee buys Light Point to enhance web browser protection
Acquisition of Light Point Security will extend the capabilities of multiple McAfee products Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
24 Feb 2020
Cisco goes all-in on security integration with SecureX platform
CISOs are struggling to stitch together disparate cyber security products and services – Cisco believes its cloud-native SecureX platform will change their working lives for the better Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
20 Feb 2020
CW APAC: Expert advice on container storage
In this handbook, focused on storage in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at how container applications can make companies more agile, the cost benefits of data storage and the most common data storage myths that need to be debunked. Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2020
Executive interview: Making IT sustainable
Defra recently reported that “cloud-first” IT strategies are driving green information and communications technology in government. This puts a greater emphasis on datacentre transparency Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
20 Feb 2020
Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud
Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
19 Feb 2020
Macquarie Cloud Services sets up Azure practice
Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers, complementing its existing cloud, hosting, datacentre and telco businesses Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Tip
19 Feb 2020
Compare hyper-converged, converged infrastructure monitoring tools
Better monitor your hyper-converged infrastructure systems with tools from Zenoss, Uila, eG Innovations and ManageEngine than with the proprietary tools of hyper-converged vendors. Continue Reading
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Podcast
18 Feb 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 47
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss IR35 protests, the Oracle vs SAP cloud applications dog fight, and a Goldman Sachs cloud service for its banking sector Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
18 Feb 2020
Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering
Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
18 Feb 2020
Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change
Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
17 Feb 2020
Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes
The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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Feature
17 Feb 2020
Ensure your DR strategy meets the challenges of a new decade
Traditional disasters and new cyberthreats have organizations reexamining their DR plans to ensure they maintain high levels of availability and can restore operations quickly. Continue Reading
By- Nick Cavalancia, Techvangelism
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Feature
17 Feb 2020
Cloud key to top 2019 data backup and disaster recovery products
Commvault, Cohesity and Actifio make the podium in our Products of the Year competition for backup and DR. Cloud Daddy wins the new Judges' Choice award. Continue Reading
By- Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor
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News
17 Feb 2020
Met Office gets a decade of funding to update supercomputers
As the UK goes through another storm battering, the Met Office has received a £1.2bn investment to power the next decade of weather forecasts Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
14 Feb 2020
AWS secures temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn US JEDI cloud contract
Restraining order prevents Microsoft doing any “substantial” work on the JEDI cloud contract as Amazon’s legal action against the US government gathers pace Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Tip
13 Feb 2020
Initiative aims to improve data center incident reporting
The Data Center Incident Reporting Network hopes to pull back the smoke screen on software and hardware issues to improve operations and reduce downtime risks -- with admins help. Continue Reading
By- Julia Borgini, Spacebarpress Media
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E-Zine
13 Feb 2020
CW Benelux: Ericsson helps driverless buses hit European streets
Ericsson has revealed its plans for new technologies including 5G, the internet of things and self-driving buses. Also read about the Dutch government lacking the knowledge and skills for its own IT strategy, and the Dutch government’s need to push for an electronic ID system for its citizens. Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2020
GitHub eyes Indian market, forms local subsidiary
GitHub is staffing its local office with engineers and sales teams to tap the growing use of its software development platform by developers and enterprises in India Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
12 Feb 2020
How AI and data analytics are driving composable infrastructure adoption in datacentres
As enterprises continue to grapple with how to make sense of their big data stores, organisations are having to rethink how they kit out their datacentres, with composable infrastructure leading the way Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2020
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
11 Feb 2020
Alibaba versus Amazon, Microsoft and Google: Does the Chinese cloud challenger have what it takes?
Chinese public cloud challenger Alibaba is undoubtedly making waves in the west, but does it have what it takes to seriously trouble the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the infrastructure-as-a-service market? Continue Reading
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Podcast
11 Feb 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 46
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna are joined by special guest Hannah Foulds, head of marketing and membership at the Open Data Institute, who flags stories about humans tricking AI. The group then discusses the Women in Software Powerlist, the loan charge and online targeting Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
11 Feb 2020
Tencent Cloud gains multi-tier cloud security certification
China's Tencent Cloud joins major cloud suppliers in securing tier three of Singapore’s Multi-Tier Cloud Security standard in a bid to grow its presence in Asia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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E-Zine
11 Feb 2020
How the Post Office caused so much misery
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after a landmark legal victory against the Post Office over a faulty IT system, campaigner Alan Bates shares his 20-year story of trials and triumph. Oracle is under fire over its cloud sales practices – we examine the claims. And we look at the sustainability challenges for datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2020
Web app ubiquity gives cyber criminals new opportunities
The popularity and ubiquity of web-based apps such as Office 365 and Salesforce is a temptation too good to miss for cyber criminals Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
05 Feb 2020
Check Point pledges end to security updates
Check Point’s Gil Shwed expands on a vision for the next 10 years of cyber security, which he calls Infinity Next Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
05 Feb 2020
OVHcloud eyes Indian market in APAC expansion
French cloud infrastructure supplier OVHcloud is investing more in India over the next few quarters as part of its regional expansion plan Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
04 Feb 2020
Australia’s NAB taps AI to create brand voice
Using Amazon’s artificial intelligence smarts, National Australia Bank has developed a unique brand voice that will greet customers who dial up its contact centre Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
04 Feb 2020
Google Cloud confirmed to be a $10bn revenue run rate business
Google parent Alphabet has separated out the contribution its cloud arm makes to its overall business for the first time in its fourth-quarter financial results Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
04 Feb 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 45
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna are joined by investigations editor Bill Goodwin to delve deeper into the Travelex and related affairs, and to discuss public sector cloud trends, AI and the NHS, and the Hangar 51 startups accelerator programme Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
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News
04 Feb 2020
Record-breaking rise in global cloud infrastructure spend between Q3 and Q4
Synergy Research Group’s fourth-quarter look at the cloud infrastructure market reveals a huge jump in sequential spend since the third quarter Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Feb 2020
Brexit messes up IT project plans
With no firm plans for a managed departure from the Europe Union, the UK’s IT spending is set to be curbed, and CIOs will need to start cutting costs as IT budgets decline Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
03 Feb 2020
India’s 2020 budget to boost local tech sector
A flurry of investments in quantum computing, datacentres and broadband connectivity is expected to shore up India’s technology industry from this year Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
31 Jan 2020
Australia’s Iconic Hotels taps cloud for speed and cost savings
The independent hotel operator in the Australian Capital Territory has saved IT manpower and costs by moving from an on-premise hospitality management system to a cloud-based application Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
31 Jan 2020
Promotions for architects of IBM’s $34bn Red Hat deal
Former CEO of Red Hat and IBM’s cloud chief are now heading up Big Blue as it moves forward to a multicloud, hybrid computing future Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
31 Jan 2020
AWS downplays risk of competitors threatening its public cloud dominance during Q4 results
Amazon Web Services posts fourth-quarter revenue of $9.95bn for the three months to 31 December 2019 as speculation persists about the rising threat from Microsoft Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 Jan 2020
UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption
Contributors to UKCloud's public sector-focused State of Cloud Adoption report flag barriers to using off-premise technologies, but could adopting a multi-cloud strategy assist with overcoming them? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 Jan 2020
Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site
Microsoft declines to comment on a local media report that the site of its Israel datacentre campus has been subject to stoppage notices after two accidents there in two days Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
29 Jan 2020
Inside DXC Technology’s APAC playbook
DXC Technology’s CTO for Asia-Pacific talks up efforts to support the region’s enterprises that are in varying stages of digital transformation Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
29 Jan 2020
Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion
In December, Oracle won its day in court – but a poll reveals a sales tactic based on audit threats combined with heavy cloud discounts Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
29 Jan 2020
CTO interview: Juan Villamil discusses changing IT culture
Juan Villamil has worked at the Department for Work and Pensions for nearly five years. As he heads off to take up a new challenge at Imperial College, we speak to him about change and transformation Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Podcast
28 Jan 2020
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 44
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Cliff Saran to discuss the end of support for Windows 7, the latest developments in IR35 in the private sector, Will Carling and AWS in respect of the Six Nations, data literacy, and IT at Davos Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
28 Jan 2020
Organisations losing control of cloud data
Data is more widely dispersed in enterprise clouds than most organisations think, and as a result they are at risk of losing control of it, according to a report Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
28 Jan 2020
IT must play its part in tackling the climate crisis
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at this year’s World Economic Forum and find out how the IT sector is aiming to help tackle climate change. Our buyer’s guide assesses onsite, offsite and cloud-based disaster recovery. And IT contractors are up in arms about the government’s loan charge policy – we examine the issues. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2020
NHS Digital completes first two major service migrations to the AWS cloud
The digital arm of the National Health Service confirms the system moves are the first of many service migrations it is planning to undertake Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Jan 2020
Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019
While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
24 Jan 2020
HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world
HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
23 Jan 2020
How AWS is helping boost rugby fans’ engagement in the Guinness Six Nations championship
With the Six Nations rugby championship about to kick off, we find out how Amazon Web Services is helping to enhance the viewing experience for fans in 170 countries Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
22 Jan 2020
Spread of Kubernetes spurs backup and disaster recovery products
Growth of containerised applications brings with it the need to back up and provide disaster recovery. But what do you need to protect, and who provides the products? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
22 Jan 2020
Driving adoption: Are high costs putting public cloud out of reach to non-profits?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s insights into the sky-high cloud bills faced by some non-profit organisations prompts questions about whether the public cloud giants should do more to make their services more accessible to the third sector Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2020
Big Blue finds green shoots in Red Hat mix
IBM’s latest quarterly filing shows early signs that enterprises are buying into its OpenShift and RHEL-powered cloud strategy Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
21 Jan 2020
Mixing it up: Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT
Cloud computing has long been tipped as the technology that will displace enterprise datacentres in CIOs’ affections, but that is not quite how the story is playing out Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2020
Millions lost due to lack of effective IT operations monitoring
The complexity of modern IT systems means it can be impossible to identify the root cause of a failure Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Blog Post
21 Jan 2020
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge
Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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20 Jan 2020
Don’t become the next Travelex: Get ready for ransomware
With Travelex’s IT still in disarray and banks and travellers left without access to funds more than a week after it was hit by a ransomware attack, we ask what others can learn from the foreign exchange services company’s response to the incident. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2020
IR35 private sector reforms: IBM joins list of enterprises applying blanket ban to PSCs
Tech giant IBM has notified its personal service company IT contractors that they must switch to PAYE terms or use umbrella companies from the end of March, as the private sector races to achieve IR35 compliance Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Jan 2020
Exposed AWS buckets again implicated in multiple data leaks
A series of data leaks in the past week have once again implicated poorly secured Amazon S3 buckets, which are supposed to be private by default Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
20 Jan 2020
Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north
Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2020
Davos 2020: Why IT sector must address climate issues
Climate change is set to be top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum, with Microsoft chief Satya Nadella declaring he aims to delete the company’s emissions Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
16 Jan 2020
Big storage meets cloud in the datacentre 'as-a-service' revolution
Cloud is mainstream but the datacentre’s here to stay. This has resulted in a trend towards as-a-service in the datacentre where big storage array makers and the cloud giants meet Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
15 Jan 2020
CW APAC: Trend Watch – digital disruption
Adoption of new technologies is growing rapidly and transforming the business landscape. In this handbook, focused on digital disruption in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at how business and IT leaders can implement a coherent and cohesive approach to digital transformation. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2020
Bristol University uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to speed up smoking cessation drug discovery
Scientists from the University of Bristol used Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to speed up research into how nicotine causes addiction by binding to specific receptors in the brain Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
15 Jan 2020
AWS to request temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn JEDI cloud contract
Amazon to file temporary restraining order with the US federal court to prevent Microsoft undertaking any substantial work relating to its delivery of US government’s JEDI cloud contract Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Jan 2020
Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play
Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Jan 2020
Threat landscape grew in complexity in 2019, no respite in sight
Check Point’s annual state of security report shares some 2019 trends and looks ahead to 2020 Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
15 Jan 2020
How container applications are shaping storage management
Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
14 Jan 2020
What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?
Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital? Continue Reading
By- Alex Cruickshank
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News
14 Jan 2020
Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities won’t be patched until end of January
Some vulnerabilities identified in Citrix products will not be fully patched until the end of January 2020 Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Opinion
14 Jan 2020
Putting edge computing centre stage in the UK’s fourth industrial revolution
The fourth industrial revolution will see every sector become a data-driven digital sector, with computing at the edge – which has power implications Continue Reading
By- Sue Daley, TechUK
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News
13 Jan 2020
Computing at the edge
Edge computing is currently one of the most important trends in IT that is likely to complement cloud by supporting new and emerging workloads Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jan 2020
Edge computing could fail, if you only pay attention to the tail
In its obsession with software development, all too often at the expense of other disciplines, the IT industry has let the tail wag the proverbial dog for more than ten years. Now, with the rise of ... Continue Reading
By- Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics
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News
10 Jan 2020
Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows
In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
10 Jan 2020
Home Office reinforces commitment to AWS with £100m cloud hosting deal
The Home Office’s position as one of the central government’s biggest cloud spenders shows no signs of slipping, as details emerge of four-year contract with Amazon Web Services Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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E-Zine
09 Jan 2020
CW Middle East: Digital leads the way for Abu Dhabi oil giant
The state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is transforming its business through digital projects that range from deciding where to drill for oil and gas, to helping the company decide where to sell its final products. Also find out in this issue why the UAE is setting up a university dedicated to artificial intelligence, and read an interview with Mohamed Sater, head of IT at Bahrain sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2020
AWS finds growth in Australia amid maturing cloud market
Edge computing, the internet of things and contact centre services are some of the key growth areas for Amazon Web Services in Australia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
08 Jan 2020
Five ways that backup has changed since the days of tape
Back in the day, all this was tape, but times have changed, with cloud-to-cloud backup, cloud storage, virtual and physical backup appliances and myriad endpoint hardware Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2020
Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace
Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
07 Jan 2020
Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware
Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
07 Jan 2020
Digital fashion for sustainable consumption
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at fashion for online personas, report on a programme to get more young women into cyber security, and examine edge computing as the new data frontier and how cloud-native platforms and AI might transform the datacentre. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2020
A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending
The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation" Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
06 Jan 2020
Why enterprises should care about DevOps
Besides supporting cloud-native software development, DevOps’ biggest gains lie in legacy systems, says Puppet’s field CTO Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget