Datacentre disaster recovery and security
Get up-to-date news and information on disaster recovery (DR) processes and planning to ensure that your business will stay up and running in the event of a disaster. Checks on generator testing, load testing, breaker design and fuel supply need to be taken care of long before a disaster hits so that when a disaster is happening you are not spending time doing things that you would not normally be doing. Find out about backup power supply products and how to failover and failback servers in the event of an outage. Discover ways to keep disaster recovery documentation up to date and available to all employees. This section also includes news and how-to information on securing your buildings against theft and natural disasters as well IT security, compliance and risk management.
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Feature
19 Nov 2024
Storage technology explained: Ransomware and storage and backup
We look at ransomware attacks, and the importance of good backup practice as well as immutable snapshots, air-gapping, network segmentation, AI anomaly detection and supplier warranties Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
25 Oct 2024
How AI is radically changing the datacentre landscape
The rising demand for AI workloads and applications is changing the face of the datacentre market, with operators having to rethink the design and location of their facilities Continue Reading
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News
28 Jun 2022
Google Cloud expands availability and scope of IT sustainability tracking tools for enterprises
The Google Cloud Sustainability Summit sees the public cloud giant ramp up its support for enterprises wanting to minimise the environmental impact of their operations Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
22 Jun 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
14 Jun 2022
MS Azure Synapse vulnerability fixed after six-month slog
Microsoft patched a critical Azure Synapse vulnerability twice, but each time the researcher who discovered it was able to bypass it with ease, leading to a lengthy saga Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
10 Jun 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
08 Jun 2022
Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms
Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
31 May 2022
OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire
The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Definition
31 May 2022
contingency plan
A contingency plan is a course of action designed to help an organization respond effectively to a significant future incident, event or situation that may or may not happen. Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2022
Consultation launched on datacentre, cloud security
The government is seeking views on how to boost the security and resilience of the UK’s datacentres and online cloud platforms Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Feature
26 May 2022
Hydrogen’s promise: How fuel cells might power lower-carbon datacentres
Could UK datacentre operators soon adopt emerging hydrogen technologies to reach expanding energy and emissions requirements? Continue Reading
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News
13 May 2022
Dublin datacentre operators warned of climate change-related coastal flooding risks
A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
12 May 2022
The limits and risks of backup as ransomware protection
Backups can provide a sound means of recovery from ransomware infection, but they are not 100% certain to foil attackers. We look at the limits and risks of depending on backups Continue Reading
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Opinion
12 May 2022
Security Think Tank: Your path to understanding attack paths
The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these attack pathways better in order to fight back Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2022
CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance
The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Feature
05 May 2022
Disaster recovery is an essential service for EDF with Phenix-IT
EDF has built disaster recovery tracking, planning and testing software on a six-month upgrade cycle based on governance, risk and compliance functionality in Mega’s Hopex platform Continue Reading
By- Alain Clapaud
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
29 Apr 2022
Podcast: War, geo-political risk, data storage and compliance
We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about impacts on compliance and data storage from instability in geo-political events, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
27 Apr 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
20 Apr 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
20 Apr 2022
AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch
AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
12 Apr 2022
Disney combines digital, data and creativity to win advertising opportunities
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the executive vice-president for client and brand solutions at Disney Advertising Sales about how it is using data to subserve story-telling excellence. We delve into how rising energy costs negatively impacted the UK arm of Sungard Availability Services. And we look at the role of infrastructure as code in edge datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
06 Apr 2022
Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda
The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
04 Apr 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Mark Ballard
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News
01 Apr 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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News
30 Mar 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
30 Mar 2022
Backup types explained: Full, incremental, differential, synthetic
We look at backup – on-prem and cloud – and the key variants available, from full backup to synthetic full, via incremental, differential, incremental forever and reverse incremental Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 Mar 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
09 Mar 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Maintenance and continuous improvement
In the final article in this four-part guide to disaster recovery planning, we look at how and when to update, maintain, audit, review and continually improve the DR plan Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2022
British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’
Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’ Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
25 Feb 2022
Cracking the code on blockchain and crypto: What might adoption mean for datacentres?
A high share of datacentre customers look set to adopt blockchain technologies, including digital currencies, over the next few years Continue Reading
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News
23 Feb 2022
Microsoft extends Defender umbrella to Google Cloud Platform
Redmond says extending Defender for Cloud native capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform will help simplify security for organisations pursuing multicloud strategies by eliminating the gaps where the bad guys can get in Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
22 Feb 2022
Think nation-state cyber attacks won’t hit you? Think again…
In this week’s Computer Weekly, with Russian state cyber attacks in the news, we find out why security professionals in every organisation need to remain alert. Our buyer’s guide looks at the tools and programmes helping improve IT training. And we look at how the traditional sport of golf is undergoing a digital transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2022
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
09 Feb 2022
Linux-based clouds an open door for attackers, says VMware
Its prevalence as a cloud operating system means Linux is becoming a meal ticket for malicious actors, but the security industry does not seem to have cottoned on to this yet, says VMware Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Feature
08 Feb 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Staff training, incident and media management
In the third in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we set out the key components of DR staff awareness and training programmes, as well as incident management and dealing with the media Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2022
Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub
Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
27 Jan 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Setting strategy and developing plans
In the second in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we look at how to formulate a DR strategy and develop detailed DR plans for your organisation, while taking cloud services into account Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2022
Delayed pay: Umbrella company cyber attacks disrupt salary payments to thousands of contractors
Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
19 Jan 2022
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Assessing risk and business impact
In the first in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we provide a step-by-step guide to building firm foundations for the disaster recovery plan, with risk assessment and business impact analysis Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2022
Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage
Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
14 Jan 2022
Podcast: 2022 compliance preview – GDPR goes global
We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of VigiTrust, about what’s looming in compliance, with regulations based on the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation plus the concept of cyber accountability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Jan 2022
Parasol systems outage leaves umbrella contractors facing late payments
Multi-day outage leaves umbrella company contractors working for payroll processing firm Parasol facing late salary payments, with the firm remaining tight-lipped over the cause of its technical difficulties Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
20 Dec 2021
Clouds gather over Chinese providers – but is there a silver lining?
With the geopolitical outlook chillier than for some time, Computer Weekly explores the future prospects for UK-China approaches to technology and business Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2021
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
13 Dec 2021
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 Dec 2021
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
30 Nov 2021
Why does ransomware still work?
As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium – thankfully at second-hand – and has been writing about it for almost as long, I sometimes find myself amazed by the high ... Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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Blog Post
29 Nov 2021
Ransomware teaches us the importance of data protection
Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages of mainstream newspapers, not just in the IT press, I took part in a number of webcasts on the topic. The ... Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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News
15 Nov 2021
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
12 Nov 2021
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 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
08 Nov 2021
How can enterprises avoid datacentre supply chain issues affecting IT upgrades?
With analysts predicting that the current datacentre component shortages could last for at least two years, CIOs are being advised to act now to prevent the situation affecting their IT upgrade plans Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2021
Siemens Energy plots multi-petabyte datacentre migration with Google Cloud
Energy technology company Siemens Energy is to downsize its datacentre footprint with an ambitious plan to move 2.6 petabytes of its business data to Google Cloud over 15 months Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
11 Oct 2021
Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities
The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2021
Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions
Harlow-based colocation giant has secure further investment as its expansion plans gather pace Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
29 Sep 2021
Riskier business: How Brexit could be changing downtime risk and resilience in the datacentre
As the UK enters the final quarter of its first year from the Brexit transition period, the risk picture for local datacentres remains unclear Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2021
Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?
Most of Iceland’s cheap, sustainable energy is currently used by aluminium smelters, but recognising the need to diversify, the Landsvirkjun power company now promotes other uses Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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News
28 Sep 2021
How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack
Palo Alto Networks shares details of how its red teamers found and sealed a customer vulnerability that could have led to another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
27 Sep 2021
Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth
Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates Continue Reading
By- Gerard O'Dwyer
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News
24 Sep 2021
IT systems failure blights UK Border Force electronic passport gates
The Home Office confirms the UK Border Force electronic passport gates are up and running again after passengers complain of missed flights due to earlier immigration processing delays Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
23 Sep 2021
European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows
Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
14 Sep 2021
TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance
Following its meteoric rise to social media prominence, TikTok’s parent company is confirmed as being the world’s seventh-biggest datacentre spender after just three years of expansion Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
14 Sep 2021
Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators
With the water usage habits of datacentres coming under increased scrutiny, research from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute highlights shortcomings in the sector's reporting of how much water facilities use Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
10 Sep 2021
The second coming: The Nordic datacentre market comes of age
As concerns mount about space and power constraints within several of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs, enterprises are being urged to consider shifting more of their energy-intensive workloads to the Nordic countries Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Sep 2021
Equinix acquires two Mumbai datacentres to expand colocation operations into India
Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a physical presence in India for the first time, following the completion of its acquisition of two Mumbai datacentres Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
09 Aug 2021
Possible ransomware attack hits Italian vaccine booking system
It is still unclear who is behind the attack that caused Covid-19 vaccine bookings in Lazio, Italy, to grind to a halt, as despite masses of files being encrypted no specific ransom demands have been made for the decryptor Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
09 Aug 2021
Alliance formed to build modular power-hungry HPC datacentres in energy surplus regions
Green datacentre company Cloud&Heat Technologies has formed an alliance with Earth Wind & Power that will see the pair seek to build scalable, modular datacentres in areas where utility firms are producing surplus energy Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
04 Aug 2021
Disaster recovery for SMEs: Five key areas to consider
We look at key disaster recovery considerations for SMEs, including why backup is not enough, how to create a disaster recovery plan, best-practice DR testing and DR as a service Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2021
Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers
TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
22 Jul 2021
Beeinfotech PH opens telco-neutral datacentre in the Philippines
Datacentre startup is touting carrier neutrality, bespoke services and cyber security capabilities to meet the growing demand for co-location services in the Philippines Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
15 Jul 2021
Macquarie Data Centres to build Sydney North facility
Macquarie Data Centres’ latest 32MW facility will come with a cyber security centre that monitors and manages cyber security events Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
15 Jul 2021
Virgin Media outage: Electrical explosion takes down network in south-east London
Underground electrical network explosion causes ‘significant collateral damage’ to cabling infrastructure, with users in south-east London told to brace themselves for ‘at least’ 24 hours of disruption Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
13 Jul 2021
Secureworks sets up in EU datacentre for XDR services
New datacentre location helps Secureworks’ customers meet EU data residency requirements Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
13 Jul 2021
Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021
Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 Jul 2021
Kaseya apologises for extended downtime after ransom attack
CEO of Kaseya apologises after pushing back the restoration of the firm’s VSA service following a REvil ransomware attack Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Blog Post
01 Jul 2021
IT As Marriage Guidance Counsellor...
In my last blog, I spoke about the need to get immediate access to network behaviour patterns, in order to detect anomalies. An extension of that need is the ability to make instant use of that ... Continue Reading
By- Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing
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News
30 Jun 2021
Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out
Colocation giant Interxion has invested £1.1m in a network roll-out that will connect up eight of its London-based datacentres Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
28 Jun 2021
Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water
Green Mountain has gone public with details of a second heat reuse agreement it has signed that will see its waste datacentre water used to warm a nearby land-based trout farm Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
22 Jun 2021
Nautilus Data Technologies CEO on building waterborne datacentres in the name of sustainability
James Connaughton, CEO of waterborne datacentre design champion Nautilus Data Technologies, sets out why the firm is convinced that water-cooled facilities are the answer to the tech industry’s sustainability woes Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
18 Jun 2021
Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks
Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
17 Jun 2021
Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace
The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
17 Jun 2021
Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations
Colocation giant Equinix is setting science-based targets to help guide its efforts to curb the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its global operations and supply chain partners Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
20 May 2021
The National Security and Investment Act: What datacentre operators and investors need to know
The incoming National Security and Investment Act will give the UK government enhanced powers to pre-screen and intervene on datacentre M&A deals, prompting concerns it could dampen the sector's soaraway growth rates Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
12 May 2021
Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers
Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Apr 2021
Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour
Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
19 Apr 2021
Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages
The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 Apr 2021
The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users
One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
29 Mar 2021
Backup survey: UK councils’ downtimes five times longer than average
Backup product supplier Veeam’s freedom of information request finds councils’ average downtime is seven hours and that backup and disaster recovery testing is not done frequently Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
23 Mar 2021
Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push
The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
16 Mar 2021
Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue
Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
11 Mar 2021
OVHcloud datacentre fire: Efforts underway to bring affected cloud customers back online
OVHcloud confirms it is has reserved capacity at other datacentres, and is preparing to ramp up in-house production of its servers to bring its customers back online as soon as possible Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
10 Mar 2021
OVHcloud confirms no casualties following fire at Strasbourg datacentre campus
Local media reports suggest websites across Europe have gone offline in the wake of the blaze at OVHcloud’s datacentre campus in Strasbourg, France Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
09 Mar 2021
NHS datacentre transformation projects continue apace during pandemic
NHS trusts have continued to invest in their datacentre estates throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but the nature of their upgrade projects continues to evolve Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Mar 2021
Five ways that disaster recovery changes in a pandemic
Covid-19 has changed IT. Previously, working remotely was a business continuity measure, but now it is the norm. That means disaster recovery has to adapt to new risks and new ways to respond Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2021
Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres
City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2021
Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023
French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
11 Feb 2021
Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow...
Disaster recovery is important for every business, large or small. But how can small businesses with limited resources protect themselves? Especially as a ‘disaster’ doesn’t have to be caused by a ... Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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News
10 Feb 2021
Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal
Ducati and Lenovo have signed another three-year deal that will see the MotoGP team dig deeper into its technology partner's product portfolio in pursuit of performance gains on the track by embracing virtual desktops, HPC and edge computing Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
03 Feb 2021
Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn
Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Feature
08 Jan 2021
Datacentre energy efficiency: Is the time now for a big switch-off?
The clock is ticking on sustainable IT and energy use, and much more can be done to save energy, power and reduce emissions at a datacentre level. So why isn’t it happening? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jan 2021
How have attitudes to risk and resilience changed?
The New Year is traditionally a time for reflections as well as resolutions. With Throwback Thursday we are happy to offer you both, as we look back to June 2008, when Freeform Dynamics published a ... Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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News
29 Dec 2020
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2020 Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK