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
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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
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Blog Post
08 Sep 2023
Why AI’s growth makes datacentre sustainability more important than ever
In this guest post, Danny Quinn, managing director of datacentre services provider DataVita, assesses the environmental impact of artificial intelligence from a server farm perspective The ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Sep 2023
Executive interview: Richard Moulds, Amazon Braket
We speak to Richard Moulds, who heads up Amazon’s Braket quantum computing services, about how the technology is progressing Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Sep 2023
SME disaster recovery: Five key points to consider
We look at key DR considerations for SMEs, including RPOs, RTOs, infrastructure needed for effective continuity and the right combination of cloud and in-house provision Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2023
Node4 helps performing arts charity revamp staff home working setup with IT infrastructure overhaul
Managed cloud services provider Node4 opens up about the work it has done to help make it easier for one of its long-standing clients to embrace remote working Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2023
IT leaders ‘oblivious’ to the environmental impact of ‘unwanted’ data, research shows
Research commissioned by IT infrastructure services provider NTT reveals knowledge gaps among IT leaders regarding the environmental footprint of their data storage estates Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Sep 2023
CXL in the datacentre: Boosting memory for hungry workloads
We look at CXL, how it revolutionises connectivity between memory components, potentially saves energy, and adds oomph to heavily memory-dependent workloads such as AI analytics Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2023
Microsoft finds Storm-0558 exploited crash dump to steal signing key
Microsoft has published new information on how the Chinese state threat actor Storm-0558 was able to exploit a rare race condition following a crash dump in order to acquire a consumer signing key Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2023
Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders
BMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2023
Schneider Electric: Business leaders deprioritise green goals due to economic pressure
Research from energy management giant Schneider Electric reveals how events like the 2021 energy crisis have altered the investment priorities of enterprises towards green issues Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2023
Orange and Huawei seek platform opportunity in Saudi Arabia
Business services arm of leading operator and global communications technology provider cut key deals for internet of things, smart cities and cloud infrastructure in increasingly important part of EMEA region Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2023
TikTok opens Irish datacentre in push to safeguard European user data
Social media giant TikTok has completed the first of two datacentre builds it has under development in Ireland Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2023
HPE storage comes with full IT stack, hybrid cloud and as a service
Storage profile: We look at HPE, its Alletra storage refresh, and Greenlake and the ways the company is re-branding as a full-stack provider across on-prem and hybrid cloud Continue Reading
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News
05 Sep 2023
Colocation market ready to cash in on rising interest in enterprise AI
IT market watcher Omdia has tipped the colocation market to be one of the main beneficiaries of the growing demand for enterprise AI services Continue Reading
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News
05 Sep 2023
Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform
WithSecure’s research team uncovered an authentication flaw in an application security platform developed by Mend.io, which has now been fixed Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2023
Tackling Scope 3 emissions in materials to help meet datacentre climate goals
Fanciful carbon accounting practice might not help much with emissions reduction, but specific materials values are already on offer from steel makers and the like that can assist datacentre operators Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2023
Going cloud-native: How to develop better cloud apps
Cloud apps do not always perform as desired – and there are multiple contributing factors, from resource gaps to blind spots and poor planning. Continue Reading
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News
05 Sep 2023
VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment
VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2023
How APAC organisations can drive IT sustainability
From using liquid cooling and optimising data storage to tapping renewable energy and recycling tape drives, organisations across the region are upping their sustainability efforts Continue Reading
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News
05 Sep 2023
The National Television Awards uses Hyve Managed Hosting to support website voting system
For the fourth year in a row, Hyve Managed Hosting has been the hosting provider of choice to the National Television Awards Continue Reading
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E-Zine
05 Sep 2023
Met Police data platform goes £64m over budget
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal a £64m cost over-run for the Metropolitan Police’s new record management system – and the thousands of support requests it’s caused. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at the issues around integrating software-as-a-service applications. And a leading flash storage firm says the age of spinning disk drives is almost over – are they right? Read the issue now Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Sep 2023
The challenges of integrating SaaS applications
SaaS has grown from a handful of applications to a vast market covering almost every type of business task. We look at the integration challenges Continue Reading
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Podcast
01 Sep 2023
Digital service: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We speak to Harmeen Mehta, chief digital innovation officer at BT, about service management in digital transformation Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2023
Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure
Details of a launch event for the Scottish government's push to encourage wider use of public cloud services by public sector organisations have emerged Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2023
GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority
Enterprise Strategy Group research on the use cases for generative AI shows it as strategic for corporate IT, with impacts on customer experience, software development and IT Ops Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2023
Google Cloud gunning for enterprise growth with generative AI push
This year's Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco has seen the company announce a slew of generative AI-focused products and services Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2023
NCSC warns over possible AI prompt injection attacks
The UK’s NCSC says it sees alarming potential for so-called prompt injection attacks driven by the large language models that power AI chatbots Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2023
Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers Continue Reading
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Definition
29 Aug 2023
critical infrastructure
Critical infrastructure is the collection of systems, networks and public works that a government considers essential to its functioning and safety of its citizens. Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2023
Google bets on AI-backed cyber controls for Workspace users
Zero-trust and digital sovereignty controls are the focus of a series of enhancements being made for Google Workspace users Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2023
AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer
The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Aug 2023
floating-point operations per second (FLOPS)
Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) is a measure of a computer's performance based on the number of floating-point arithmetic calculations that the processor can perform within a second. Continue Reading
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News
22 Aug 2023
CBRE forecasts rise in European colocation capacity in H2 despite power supply constraints
Real estate consultancy CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker report suggests the second half of 2023 will be a big one in terms of supply and take-up of datacentre capacity Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2023
Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle
Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2023
UK competition watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware deal green light to go ahead
After several months of deliberation, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its investigation into Broadcom's $61bn bid to acquire VMware Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2023
Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe
German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights Continue Reading
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News
17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
Healthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer Continue Reading
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News
16 Aug 2023
AI is the most hyped technology of 2023
Gartner's 2023 hype cycle puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations in its latest analysis of emerging tech trends Continue Reading
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News
15 Aug 2023
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases
Nutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks Continue Reading
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15 Aug 2023
Is the UK datacentre industry set for further consolidation?
Turbulent times make it tricky to predict which way markets will jump, yet UK datacentres continue to grow and hold investor attention. Continue Reading
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News
14 Aug 2023
US Cyber Board to probe cloud security after latest Exchange hack
CSRB review of cloud security comes in the wake of a major Chinese cyber attack on US government bodies orchestrated through Microsoft’s cloud services Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Aug 2023
power factor correction (PFC)
Power factor correction (PFC) is the set of mechanisms built into a power supply circuit to raise the power factor (PF). Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2023
Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk
At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2023
The future of sustainable datacentres
In this guest post, David Gammie, CTO at iomart, sets out the role that smaller cloud provider can play in leading the way on green issues in the datacentre market It’s no secret that datacentre ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2023
Implications of SAP Rise premium strategy
SAP dropped a bombshell during its second-quarter 2023 results call that will negatively impact those using S/4Hana on-premise or through a hosted service provider Continue Reading
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Definition
09 Aug 2023
VMware snapshot
A VMware snapshot is a copy of a virtual machine (VM) in a VMware environment taken at a specific point in time. Continue Reading
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News
09 Aug 2023
AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon
Remote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Aug 2023
Huawei a big storage hitter despite international troubles
Huawei is a leading storage player with an enterprise product offer across file, block and object storage, and the cloud, despite controversy and trading difficulties Continue Reading
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News
07 Aug 2023
Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism
Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes Continue Reading
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News
07 Aug 2023
HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices
HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2023
CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs
The government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are coming under fire from the SME supplier community over accusations it could do more to make the £1.3 bn Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to smaller suppliers Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2023
SAP called out by German user group for Rise U-turn
German SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe calls on SAP for clarity around on-premise S/4Hana product enhancements Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2023
VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region
MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2023
Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results
After a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2023
Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says
Two years and three months after Joe Biden mandated new standards in supply chain security, over 40% of UK respondents to a survey say they have implemented new SBOM policies in direct response Continue Reading
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News
03 Aug 2023
Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign
Microsoft shares intelligence on a newly observed Cozy Bear campaign that saw the APT take over genuine Microsoft 365 tenants and subvert them to try to phish its victims Continue Reading
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News
03 Aug 2023
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’ Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2023
Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage
Cubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2023
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores Continue Reading
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Definition
01 Aug 2023
Dell EMC VxRail
Dell EMC VxRail is a hyper-converged appliance. Like VSPEX Blue -- the Dell EMC product that it replaced -- and other hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems, VxRail includes compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources in a single device. Continue Reading
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01 Aug 2023
The impact of generative AI on the datacentre
While artificial intelligence won’t live up to its name any time soon, mass adoption of large language models requires the attention of enterprise IT leaders. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
01 Aug 2023
We’re doing AI all wrong
In this week’s Computer Weekly, AI is being imposed upon society from the top down and the socio-economic implications will cause problems – we talk to an expert who says there is a better way. We find out how hackers – the good kind – are turning to AI to make their work more effective. And we examine how generative AI will affect the datacentre. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
31 Jul 2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Preparing the enterprise for tightening green regulations
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
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News
31 Jul 2023
SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play
SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jul 2023
Infrastructure-as-Code in 2023: What enterprises need to know
In this guest post, Tom Chisholm, principal training solutions engineer at IT automation software provider Puppet by Perforce, sets out what enterprise IT leaders need to know about ... Continue Reading
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News
31 Jul 2023
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites Continue Reading
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Opinion
28 Jul 2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Recruitment and the regulatory landscape
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
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News
27 Jul 2023
IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions
Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities Continue Reading
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News
26 Jul 2023
Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy
Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas Continue Reading
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News
26 Jul 2023
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue Continue Reading
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News
25 Jul 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation
With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration Continue Reading
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News
25 Jul 2023
Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy
Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations Continue Reading
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Opinion
25 Jul 2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: What enterprises need to know about regulation
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jul 2023
Generative AI: Automating storage and backup management
We look at how generative artificial intelligence is being deployed to automate monitoring of repetitive tasks and report on enterprise storage and backup, but also the limits to its implementation Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2023
How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers
The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2023
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2023
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2023
Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps
The latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2023
Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows
The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2023
The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses
The Football Association is drawing on its long-standing technology partnership with Google Cloud to collect match and player data to support the Lionesses in their training regimes for the Women's World Cup Continue Reading
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Definition
18 Jul 2023
real-time monitoring
Real-time monitoring is the delivery of continuously updated data about systems, processes or events. Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2023
Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks
Two vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed Continue Reading
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E-Zine
18 Jul 2023
Computer Weekly: Soaring ahead with data at Rolls-Royce
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how aerospace giant Rolls-Royce is using data science, machine learning and internet of things to improve its competitive advantage. We examine the benefits and best practices in software-defined storage. And we analyse calls for a review of laws around the use of computer evidence prompted by the Post Office IT scandal. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Jul 2023
The essential role of PETs in unlocking the trillion dollar SaaS market
Ahead of the Eyes-Off Data Summit in Dublin, Jack Fitzsimons of Oblivious AI explains why so-called Privacy Enhancing Technologies or PETs may hold the key to unlocking the full potential of SaaS in the enterprise Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2023
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
Zoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Jul 2023
System Restore (Windows)
System Restore is a Microsoft Windows utility designed to protect and revert the operating system (OS) to a previous state. Continue Reading
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News
13 Jul 2023
Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres
Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres Continue Reading
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News
13 Jul 2023
BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three and Virgin Media commit to curbing telco supply chain GHG emissions
Twelve telcos and network infrastructure providers have vowed to join forces to help cut the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from their supply chains Continue Reading
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News
13 Jul 2023
Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon
Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments Continue Reading
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Definition
12 Jul 2023
Windows containers
Windows containers provide abstracted, isolated, lightweight and portable operating environments for application development on a single system. Continue Reading
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Opinion
12 Jul 2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Keeping one step ahead of regulation
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jul 2023
Do batteries pose a fire risk to datacentres?
In this guest post, Jack Pearce, CEO of green critical power systems manufacturer Active Power, outlines the risks involved with using battery-based power in datacentres A datacentre ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Jul 2023
Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl
Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans Continue Reading
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News
10 Jul 2023
Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri
The Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change Continue Reading
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News
10 Jul 2023
Datacentre cross-sector collaboration needed to boost heat reuse rates, report claims
Report by datacentre consultancy BCS looks at what needs to be done to encourage more operators to reuse waste heat from their server farms Continue Reading
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Opinion
10 Jul 2023
How Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware will accelerate multi-cloud adoption
How will the $60bn acquisition accelerate the private cloud and how important are regulator concerns about interoperability? Continue Reading
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News
10 Jul 2023
How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming
Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services Continue Reading
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News
07 Jul 2023
Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA
As the UK cloud market braces itself for the publication of Ofcom's final report into the state of the market, Amazon and Microsoft's responses to regulator's interim findings have been made public Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Jul 2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Keeping on top of the regulatory landscape
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2023
VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC
VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2023
Schneider Electric makes bid to acquire Atos Group's EcoAct sustainability consultancy business
Energy management giant Schneider Electric has entered into exclusive negotiations with Atos Group about acquiring the sustainability consultancy business it obtained in 2020 Continue Reading