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ENISA: Encryption Back-Doors ‘Not A Solution’
EU security body concludes government-mandated backdoors would make legitimate services less secure and harm law enforcement
Tales In Tech History: The Mainframe
The ultimate tech survivor? Big iron computers began life back in the early 1950s and are still in use today
Quiz Of The Week: Christmas Tech
Time to put your tech and Christmas knowledge to the test
Digital Realty: Data Centre Renewables Are Up, But The Work’s Not Done
Rob Coupland, Digital Realty's MD of EMEA, explains the growing impact of renewables in the data centre industry
Microsoft Cloud UK Data Centres Get Private Connections & Security Updates
The Azure ExpressRoute and PSN/N3 Connectivity feature is just one of the new tools and services available to Azure customers in the UK.
AWS Opens UK Data Centres With New London Region
AWS long-awaited UK data centres go live with launch of London region for public cloud
Kubernetes 1.5 Brings Container Management To Windows
New release of open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system adds initial support for Microsoft Windows Server and previews beta stateful application capabilities
Tech Quiz Of The Week: What Do You Know About IBM?
Do you know your cognitive computing from you cloud computing?
Qualcomm Targets Data Centres With 10nm 48-core Server CPU
Are you watching Intel? Qualcomm trumps rival with commercial sampling of 'world first' 10nm server chip
Docker Boosts Container Storage With Infinit Acquisition
Docker to directly integrate storage capabilities into its container engine, while still leaving room for organizations to choose other storage technologies
Google To Hit 100 Percent Renewable Energy Target In 2017
Solar and wind investment pays off as Google reveals it will reach 100 percent renewable energy target in 2017
Home Office Grants Another £26m For Police Cloud And Data Transformation
The funding is to support a cloud data-access programme, DNA database, data analytics lab and other schemes
Met Office Shift To The Cloud Fuelled By Demand For Weather Data
IN DEPTH: Met Office discusses how demand for data is fuelling a move to the cloud and new super computer will improve the weather forecast
Tech Quiz of The Week: IT Jargon
Can you makes sense of all the acronyms?
HPE Embraces Digital Transformation To Help Enterprises Cope With IT Disruption
ANALYSIS: No surprises as HPE joins the likes of Microsoft in towing the digital transformation line
Met Police Selects Microsoft Azure For Data Storage Of Video Evidence From Wearable Cameras
UK data centre means police data is kept securely in British borders
HPE Sells OpenStack And CloudFoundry Assets To SUSE
SUSE says HPE deal is a sign of its commitment to open source cloud infrastructure
Dropbox CEO Talks European Expansion, Brexit, Trump And IPO
IN-DEPTH: Drew Houston outlines plans for European expansion and how Dropbox will change the conversation from syncing files to syncing teams
HPE Throws Synergy’s Composability Into Helion Cloud Hyper-Converged Tech
Hewlett Packard Enterprise aims to make embracing digital transformation and disruption easy for IT operators
Japan To Build World’s Fastest AI & Big Data Supercomputer
The AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure is to target machine learning applications and big data analysis for academia, enterprises and start-ups
Newcastle Will Play Host To UK’s Largest Purpose Built Data Centre
Newly minted data centre firm Stellium will make Newcastle's northern tech hub the base for its UK data centre
The Economics Of OpenStack
Canonical's Mark Baker explains how the economics of Openstack can work in favour for your business when compared to public cloud
Rackspace Expands European Reach With German Data Centre
First Rackspace data centre on mainland Europe announced to satisfy cloud services demand and data sovereignty rules
NHS Royal Free London Signs Five-Year Deal With Google’s DeepMind
The revised deal for DeepMind's Streams app still gives it access to millions of patients' data going back years
Data Protection Breach Cases Set To Soar With GDPR Introduction
Legal experts expect disputes related to privacy or data breaches to become much more common in the next five years
Nvidia Builds World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer
The SATURNV system is powered by Nvidia's own Tesla P100 GPUs and intended to help build autonomous driving software
IBM Plans Four New UK Data Centres To ‘Meet Cloud Demand’
IBM will treble its cloud capacity in the UK, targeting regulated industries and government, but European cloud head confirms plans underway before Brexit
Oracle Buys Domain Names Service Provider Dyn
The database giant looks to extend its cloud footprint with Dyn acquisition
Intel Outlines AI Push With Lake Crest Chip And Google Partnership
The chip maker is keen to pursue the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning