Datacentre

Gartner Sees Rise In IT Spending Next Year

IT spending in Europe and worldwide seen coming out of slump in 2020 as currency pressure eases – and firms…

5 years ago

OpenText Acquires Carbonite For £1.1bn

Cash deal sees OpenText expand its cloud business while adding Carbonite's data protection and end-point offerings to its own security…

5 years ago

Digital Realty To Acquire Interxion For $8.4bn

Data centre consolidation sees US real estate giant acquire Europe's largest colocation provider, Interxion

5 years ago

EU Data Regulator Finds ‘Serious Concerns’ Over Microsoft Contracts

Microsoft's contracts with EU agencies found to have 'significant scope for improvement' where it comes to protecting citizens' data

5 years ago

‘Less Than One-Third’ Of Companies Fully GDPR-Compliant

Capgemini finds firms struggle with legacy IT systems, complex requirements and mounting costs to bring themselves into line with strict…

5 years ago

Google To Spend Billions On European Data Centres

CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is to spend an additional 3 billion euros (£2.6bn) on European data centres

5 years ago

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Pledges To Be Carbon Neutral By 2040

Environmental pledge from CEO, as staff stage walkout at Seattle HQ in protest at Amazon's green record

5 years ago

Oracle, VMware Reach Agreement For Hybrid Cloud, Tech Support

Partnership expanded to cover VMware workloads on Oracle Cloud, and tech support for Oracle products on VMware

5 years ago

Google Broadens Scope Of Anthos Hybrid Cloud Management Platform

New features include Services Mesh microservices management and Cloud Run for running fully managed applications in serverless environments

5 years ago

RBS Natwest Websites Suffer Outage

Websites for RBS and Natwest suffer outage from 9am on Tuesday and problems are ongoing

5 years ago

Microsoft Buys jClarity To Boost Java Performance On Azure

Acquisition is part of Microsoft's growing support for open source technologies on Azure, including Linux and Java

5 years ago

British Airways IT Failure Results In Travel Chaos

Passengers face flight delays and long queues after IT failure during peak summer holiday period

5 years ago

Far-Right Website 8chan Offline After Cloudflare Withdraws Services

Site goes offline following involvement in shootings in Texas, with Cloudflare accusing it of 'directly inspiring tragic events'

5 years ago

Destructive Cyber-Attacks Double In First Half Of 2019

Attacks seeking to wreak havoc on targets' systems have risen sharply, with the manufacturing sector accounting for half of all…

5 years ago

BT Opts For Canonical For 5G Core Build

Open source move for telco as it opts for Canonical as key partner for 5G services delivery

5 years ago

Adobe, Microsoft, SAP Demonstrate First Open Data System

The Open Data Initiative, announced last autumn to create a common data model for customer data, could pose a competitive…

5 years ago

Western Digital Expands NVMe Range For Accessibility, Higher Density

Company aims to make speedy NVMe data centre storage more accessible, while new tech doubles density through support for 15TB…

5 years ago

Cloudera Moves To All-Open Source Model In Major Shift

Amidst financial troubles and departure of chief executive Tom Reilly, company says it wants to emulate success of pure open…

5 years ago

Google Cloud Acquires Storage Start-Up Elastifile In Latest Buy

Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian has made a series of acquisitions this year as he seeks to give the…

5 years ago

Facebook EU Privacy Challenge Raises Prospect Of Data Disruption

Case opening this week in European Court of Justice could invalidate legal basis for transfer of citizens' data to any…

5 years ago

Facebook, WhatsApp Hit By Photo Glitch

Normal services resumed. Photo glitch with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger now resolved

5 years ago

Huawei Loses Case Against Former Staffer’s Startup CNEX

Chinese giant loses US court case against CNEX Labs after accusing it of stealing trade secrets

6 years ago

Cisco Warns Of Flaws In Data Centre Kit

Cisco warns of two critical flaws affecting its equipment commonly used in data centres

6 years ago

Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report

Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered

6 years ago

TSB Hires New Transformation Boss After Epic IT Failure

Poisoned chalice? Mark Curran “looking forward” to be responsible for IT restructuring at bank

6 years ago

Microsoft, Oracle Partner For Cloud Push At AWS

One time bitter rivals Microsoft and Oracle agree to make their cloud services work together

6 years ago

Oracle Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs Amidst Cloud Confusion

Company reportedly sheds staff in the US and China as it struggles to compete with top cloud players

6 years ago

Google Cloud Restored After Four-Hour Outage

The disruption affected Google's online tools such as Gmail as well as those of third-parties, including Snapchat and Vimeo

6 years ago

Facebook Privacy Case Will Be Heard At ECJ

Europe's top court will finally hear privacy case against Facebook, after Irish Supreme Court ruling

6 years ago

Google To Invest 600m Euros In New Finland Data Centre

The new facility adds to Google's existing facility in Hamina, which is on track to be powered by wind energy

6 years ago