VMware wants to see all its users use Photon as a layer in the virtualized data center that welcomes containers from a slew of various makers
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HP Leads As Server Shipments Grow
Hewlett-Packard maintains lead in the server market as shipments grow despite currency impact, according to Gartner
C4L Resolves Service Outage, Blames Software Glitch
'Emergency maintenance' has now been completed after major outage for British data centre
Hortonworks Acquires Onyara For Real Time IoT Analytics
The Hadoop developer said Onyara's NSA-developed technology will make it easier to acquire data from an array of devices
Vodafone Pumps £5m Into Irish Data Centre Services
Vodafone Ireland wants to increase European cloud and hosting abilities with further investments into Irish cloud services
Google, Amazon Tussle For Tata Communications’ Data Centre Business
Google and Amazon amongst potential buyers in £450m data centre deal that would boost presence in giant Indian emerging cloud market
Lightning Strikes Cause Of Google Cloud Outage
St. Ghislain, Belgium Google data centre shocked by four lightning strikes to local power grid that caused temporary power loss
Aliyun Launches Data Centre And New Headquarters In Singapore
In latest move against AWS and Azure, Alibaba's cloud division Aliyun extends operations in Asia Pacific region
Linux Foundation Expands Mainframe, Network And Storage Initiatives
The Linux Foundation kicked off its LinuxCon event with the announcement of new efforts that will build on the promise of open-source collaboration
Equinix Plans 3,000 Mile Atlantic Cable Route
Equinix IBX data centres to be hooked up with AquaComms' AEConnect cable
Google Suffers Compute Engine Cloud Outage
Some Google users hit with four-day Persistent Disk outage as europe-west1-b region gets the hiccups
2,000 Cabinet Expansion For Equinix’s Singapore Data Centre
Equinix's SG3 data centre goes into phase two as firm highlights importance of bringing region complete connectivity
Facebook Gets Green Light For Irish Data Centre
Local Councillor says approval is the "best news" he's had in the county in his 30 years of service
Obama Orders Exascale Supercomputer Initiative
World's faster supercomputer. Obama orders creation of computer capable of 1,000 petaflops
Equinix’s Data Centre Growth Shows No Sign Of Stopping
Equinix posts 10 percent rise in revenue in promising quarterly results
Huawei Kicks Off Open IT Ecosystem For Finance Industry
Huawei aims to help revolutionise finance IT with open standards-based technologies backed by major financial services providers
IBM Sees 13th Consecutive Quarterly Revenue Decline
Growth in cloud computing and big data wasn't enough to compensate for declines in business services, software and hardware
Oracle Reveals Plans For Indian Data Centres
Oracle chases Microsoft in establishing data centre presence in India to meet growth in demand
Quiz Of The Week: Data Centres
Show us how much you know about data centres with our weekly quiz
Intel Switches Out For Data Centre Success In Waning PC Market
But pushes back 10nm "Cannonlake" chip release to 2017, potentially damaging data centre progress
Fujitsu Claims Huge Energy Savings With Liquid Cooling
Good to be green. Fujitsu says its Primergy cooling tech for data centres can halve cooling costs
Digital Realty Buying Telx In £1.21bn Data Centre Deal
Data centre real estate giant picks up Telx in high-growth data centre expansion play
Google Filing Lifts Lid On Data Centre Expansion
Google's Lithia Springs, Georgia site set to expand with 500,000 square foot data centre
Two Thirds Of Firms Think Storage Cost Is Biggest Data Centre Problem
But just THINK about the revenue benefits from the Big Data explosion that new technologies in the data centre can bring, says report
Facebook Reveals Wind-Powered Texas Data Centre
Fort Worth Facebook data centre will be 100 percent renewable energy powered at expand firm's fleet of data centres to five
Colt Data Centre Suffers Fire And Power Outage In Milan
Colt's Italian data centre goes down as firefighters attend the incident
Green Data Centre Market To Skyrocket
A new study has found the market for green data centre technologies could grow by more than 30 percent a year to 2022
Why Secura Hosting Chose Infinity SDC To Be Its Data Centre Provider
Ollie Beaton, CEO at Secura, on how the firm came to the decision they did when shopping for the best data centre provider to suit its needs
How To Explain A Data Centre To A Five-Year-Old
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UK Will Be ‘Largest Single Data Centre Market In Europe’ By 2020
New report also forecasts data centre space in Europe to increase 20 percent by 2020