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EMC World – Tech Bundle Launched For Modern Data Centres
EMC unveils EMC Unity Family, Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC MyService360 Service Dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR Controller 3.0
Poll: Does It Matter To You If Your Data Is Stored In The EU?
Cloud vendors are bringing customer data closer, but does being covered by European data protection laws matter to you?
Microsoft Targets Hybrid Cloud With New Management Tools
New Microsoft tools arrive to tame management of hybrid clouds and data centre resources
Dropbox’s Ease Of Use Is ‘Essential’ To Attracting More UK Businesses
Dropbox pins hopes on usability to expand European business, arguing it will make companies more secure and productive if employees actually want to use it
Dropbox Project Infinite Gives Terabytes Of Data With Gigabytes Of Storage
Project Infinite will give businesses control over files without the need to download them to desktop, Dropbox tells European customers
EMC Revenue Slides Ahead Of Dell Purchase
EMC CEO describes results as “solid” as revenues slip ahead of pricey acquisition by Dell
Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?
Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the figures correct?
G-Cloud 8 Open For Applications Next Month As GDS Hints At G-Cloud 9 Shakeup
G-Cloud 6 suppliers will have to reapply, but G-Cloud 7 partners don't in most cases
Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue
Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up
UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites
123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million sites it hosts
Microsoft Will Open German Data Centres In June
Microsoft’s two German data centres will be opened on a rolling basis, with Office 365 coming in September, three months after the Azure launch
Security Concerns ‘Prevent’ Mainstream Container Adoption
Cloud experts believe security concerns will stop containers superseding VMs for now but, in 18 months, it could be a different story
Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres
Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and performance
IBM And SAP To Build On Cloud, Big Data Partnership With Cognitive Capabilities
IBM and SAP will work together on creating new services and boosting HANA with IBM cognitive capabilities
DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services
DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud
Google And Rackspace To Develop OpenPower Server Design
Google and Rackspace co-develop open server architecture based on new IBM POWER9 hardware
Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion
Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner
Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre
Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site
Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges
New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator
LinkedIn Opens First International Data Centre In Singapore
LinkedIn said that growth in Asia Pacific has led to increased demand on its infrastructure
Ericsson Acquires Data Centre Automation Startup NodePrime
Ericsson says all-cash purchase is 'strategic' to its cloud offering, integrates NodePrime's software into Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000
Intel Tightens Cloud Focus With New Xeon Chips, SSDs And Partnerships
Chip giant expands Xeon line with new processor models and partnerships to aid cloud workload migrations
HPE, Dell, Lenovo Refresh Servers With Intel’s New Xeon E5 Chips
HPE also is introducing its new Persistent Memory technology on two of its ProLiant systems that is designed to speed up database workloads
‘The Bunker’ Wins Britain’s Most Picturesque Data Centre Award
Beating hundreds of other competitors, Sandwich’s The Bunker deemed to have the ‘X’ Factor
5 Things You Need To Know About The Data Centre Colocation Market
How is the colocation data centre market reacting to increased demand from enterprises for cloud services?
Brocade’s StackStorm Acquisition Will Bring Data Centre DevOps To Networks
Startup StackStorm specialises in DevOps - and Brocade thinks the company's open source software can help its customers act more like the cloud giants
Newcastle ‘Data’ Centre Will Cost £30m And Create 1,000 Jobs
Newcastle University matches Budget's £15m pledge for big data research centre that will help businesses exploit benefits of a data-driven economy
How To Break Into A Google Data Centre
Google lifts the lid on its data centre security, revealing laser beam security and biometric verification for employees
UK Lagging In Terms Of Data Centres, But Cloud Giant Expansions Will Change That
UK plays host to less than 5 percent of world's major cloud data centres, but expansions from AWS, Google, and Microsoft will boost the region in 2016