Data Centre

Google Cloud Grows But AWS Shines Again

Google Cloud Platform helped push a 21 percent revenue gain while AWS posts £2.2bn quarterly sales

8 years ago

ARM Revenues Up 17 Percent Ahead Of £24bn Softbank Takeover

ARM Q2 revenues up to £267.6 million as licensing revenue goes up again

8 years ago

IBM Launches DeepFlash 150 For Big Data Workloads

The DeepFlash 150 rounds off IBM's all-flash portfolio

8 years ago

OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light

OpenStack earns CII best practices badge for security, quality, and stability

8 years ago

European Science Community Launches £4.5m Hybrid Cloud Tender

Ten top European research bodies, including the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, support the tender

8 years ago

Estonia Wants UK ‘Data Embassy’ To Protect Citizen Data Amid Cyberattack Fear

Threat of cyberattacks prompt Estonian officials to investigate possibility of using UK data centres for citizen data

8 years ago

Dell Rolls Out Flex Pay Hybrid Cloud Options In Europe

Try before you buy, says Dell, as six month hybrid trial gets EMEA support

8 years ago

Salesforce Buys Cloud Infrastructure Startup Coolan

Salesforce sips the Open Compute Project Coolan, picks up startup making software for server optimisation

8 years ago

Intel Posts Reduced Profit Amid Data Centre Slowdown

Intel reports a better than expected profit, but hefty cost cutting impacts chipmaker's bottom line

8 years ago

BT Broadband Suffers Second Day Of Outages After Telehouse Data Centre Power Failure

UPDATED: A second data centre power failure in as many days, this time at Telehouse North, causes disruption for BT…

8 years ago

Google Uses DeepMind AI To Slash Data Centre Energy Use

Artificial intelligence platforms predicts power needed for cooling, resulting in 40 percent energy saving

8 years ago

Equinix Admits To Power Failure That Knocked Out BT Internet

Equinix’s Telecity LD8 data centre in London’s Docklands suffers brief outage, in turn affecting BT’s services from LINX

8 years ago

Microsoft Azure Cloud Revenue Grows 102 Percent

Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS

8 years ago

Does £24bn ARM Sale End UK’s Last Hope Of Creating A Tech Giant?

ANALYSIS: ARM will stay in Cambridge and its UK workforce will double, but the UK's biggest hope for a tech…

8 years ago

Microsoft Blasted Over Severe Azure Stack Delay

Microsoft reveals big Azure Stack changes, will only sell platform through certified hardware partners such as HPE, Dell and Lenovo

8 years ago

Cisco Brings More Security to Its Networking DNA

Cisco Live 2016: Cisco shows off new offerings designed to make it easier for enterprises to address increasing security threats

8 years ago

Trust Cloud And Reap Profits, Finds Google-Backed Study

Google-sponsored Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research finds businesses with a higher trust in cloud computing find profit boost

8 years ago

Gartner: Brexit Threatens Improved IT Spending Outlook

IT spending forecast to be flat this year according to Gartner, but that prediction assumes the UK will not exit…

8 years ago

British Software Vendors Could Lose AWS Business After Brexit

AWS Marketplace is now accepting software sellers based in the EU, but AWS doesn’t know how Brexit will affect UK…

8 years ago

Brexit Won’t Stop Amazon Building Its AWS UK Data Centres

AWS still won't give official launch date, but it is understood UK data centres will open between November and February

8 years ago

Public Cloud Spending Almost Double That Of Private Cloud

IDC cloud tracker: Boost comes as IT infrastructure spending for non-cloud deployments falls again

8 years ago

E-Shelter Offers Up Managed Ubuntu OpenStack Through Canonical

Ubuntu funnels Hosted BootStack through e-shelter data centres for end to end private cloud management

8 years ago

Google Buys 236MW Of Wind Energy From Sweden and Norway

Google wants more of its European operations to be powered by clean energy

8 years ago

Board Room Data Centre Efficiency Discussions Are ‘Not Happening’

The Green Grid says that important conversations about keeping data centres green are still not hitting the top brass

8 years ago

Amazon Web Services Expands With First India Data Centres

Amazon Web Services has established two cloud data centres in Mumbai, expanding the total to 35 worldwide

8 years ago

MongoDB Launches Atlas Cloud Database As A Service

Atlas provides complete pay-per-hour infrastructure and management cloud tools over AWS, Azure and Google

8 years ago

BT Offers Direct Access To Oracle Cloud

BT Cloud Connect will link to Oracle data centres in London and Amsterdam

8 years ago

US To ‘Regain’ Supercomputer Crown In 2018

The Summit supercomputer will have roughly double the power of China's top system, according to the DOE

8 years ago

Western Digital Boosts VMware vSphere Performance

WD develops FlashSoft software and virtualisation system to speed up vSphere environments

8 years ago

SoftIron Launches CentOS Edition Overdrive 1000 Server

SoftIron’s new 64-bit ARM systems now comes ready to go for CentOS developers at less than £500

8 years ago