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Lenovo Targets Data Centre Expansion With Enterprise Server And Network Updates
Lenovo refreshes data centre range and details more about Juniper Networks partnership
HPE Leads Contracting Server Market As Cloud Popularity Grows
Revenues fall but shipments rise, says Gartner, as SMBs look to the cloud to satisfy growing needs
CoreOS Launches Torus Project for Cloud-Native Storage
While there are already multiple distributed storage systems, Torus aims to be cloud-native and integrate closely with Kubernetes.
EU Watchdog: EU-US Privacy Shield Is ‘Not Robust Enough’
The new transatlantic data transfer agreement is likely to be defeated in EU court just as Safe Harbour was, argues the European data protection supervisor
Singapore Tests Data Centres At 30 Degrees In 90 Percent Humidity
'Tropical Data Centre' trial will test how data centres can run at higher temperatures, saving costs through reduced cooling demands
Competition Watchdog Slams British Cloud Providers
Several major cloud providers accused of breaking consumer law by altering contract terms without notice
Lenovo Boosts Data Centre Power With New Cooling Technology
Work with University of Birmingham could reduce cooling energy by up to 83 percent compared to using air cooling alone
IBM Wins FleetCor Cloud Bid To Power Two Billion Annual Transactions
FleetCor will shift to IBM's cloud in mega financial win for Big Blue against cloud rivals
451 Research: Cloud Race To The Bottom Is ‘Red Herring’
Price doesn’t matter, claims 451 Research, as customer look for value-added services
OakNorth Becomes First UK Bank To Move Core Systems Onto AWS
Entrepreneur bank OakNorth, launched eight months ago, moves entire core systems into the public cloud
Salesforce Strikes Cloud Services Deal With AWS
Salesforce moved software onto AWS cloud in the hope of expanding its international services with minimal infrastructure spend
Microsoft Boosts Azure Site Recovery With Flash Storage
Azure Premium Storage users can now replicate their workloads onto SSDs
Theresa May Promises Snoopers Charter Review
Bulk data collection scrutiny - 'draconian' Investigatory Powers Bill to face independent investigation
Elissa Fink, Tableau Software : “I was an Excel Junkie”
Chief Marketing Officer of Tableau software, Elissa Fink was in Paris this week to announce the company latest version of its solution mixing datavizualisation and business intelligence
Alibaba Takes On AWS In India With Data Centre
AliCloud eyes Indian data centre build to compete with Western cloud expansion
IBM Cloud Community Grid Project Targets Zika Virus
#OpenZika allows users to contribute computing power to help identify anti-Zika drug candidates
IBM, Huawei, AMD, ARM And Qualcomm Unite On Data Centres
Xilinx, Mellanox also join CCIX Consortium to give data centre CPUs an open sharing architecture to boost speed and efficiency
Dropbox Opens German Office Ahead Of AWS Partnership
DACH region gets a dedicated Dropbox office, a 'natural step' in one of the company's most popular regions
UK And Half Of EU Member States Back Free Data Flows
Liberalisation of the way user data can be used by businesses is 'vital' for EU businesses, member states say
Microsoft Raises Data Centre Renewable Energy Targets
Microsoft commits to reducing reliance on carbon offset certificates and aims to boost direct renewable energy use for the future
ST Telemedia Buys Majority Stake In Tata’s Data Centre Business
£439m gets ST Telemedia 17 data centres across key Indian and Singaporean cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore
SAP Counting On Customers To Go All-In On Cloud Migration With HANA
ANALYSIS: SAP is counting on its HANA in-memory database to help retain established customers
Dell Targets Flash With Storage Center Operating System 7
Dell's enterprise storage operating system follows introduction of a network OS earlier this year
Office 365 Security Risks Rise As Corporate Adoption Increases
Nearly three quarters of enterprise Microsoft Office 365 users have a compromised account each month and more than 200 files called 'password'
Why VCs Have Invested More Than $200M in Container Tech
ANALYSIS: Last week alone, investors—aiming to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing apps—poured $63M into container vendors.
SAP HANA Will Run On Microsoft Azure Public Cloud
Microsoft Azure will be certified for all types of HANA workloads as SAP software and Office 365 get integrated
Microsoft Canadian Azure Data Centres Go Live, South Korea Region Planned
Microsoft Azure data centres open in Toronto and Quebec, offering Canadian customers additional data protection
CoreOS Lands £19m Container Funds From Google Ventures
GV leads Series B funding to help push CoreOS Kubernetes containers into businesses
Internet Optimiser Dyn Raises £35m In New Funding
Internet performance management vendor Dyn cashes in on healthy 2016 outlook