Data Centre

Google Launches US East Coast Cloud Region

US-east1 region is opened to give East Coast Google customers lower latency and better options for disaster recovery

9 years ago

Aberdeen Gets First Microsoft Azure-Enabled Data Centre In Scotland

Photos: brightsolid’s new data centre will hold the equivalent computer power of over 100,000 MacBooks

9 years ago

China Is Home To The Second Largest Amount Of Data Centres In The World

Fuelling its 700 million internet users, China makes up for 10 percent of the world’s major cloud and internet data…

9 years ago

Box And IBM Share First Fruits Of Cloud Partnership

IBM to integrate ECM products into Box and offer up its cloud platform to joint-customers, but why was it keen…

9 years ago

Everything We Know About Microsoft’s Indian Data Centres

Microsoft goes live with Azure cloud services in India, opening three data centres and planning Office 365 local launch

9 years ago

Google Launches Service For Managing Hadoop, Spark Clusters

Cloud Dataproc will make it easier to administer and manage clusters, the company says

9 years ago

What To Do When The Cloud Comes Crashing Down

BLOG: Major cloud services are reliable, until they suffer an outage that can bring your business to its knees for…

9 years ago

AWS Recovers After Weekend Outage

AWS issue at an East Coast data centre caused weekend disruption for major websites

9 years ago

IBM Opens New Cloud Data Centre In Brazil

To tap into the fast-growing market for cloud computing in Latin America, IBM has opened a new cloud data center…

9 years ago

Google: We Don’t Want To Be The World’s ISP

Google says it will continue to make investments in networking and further projects like Loon and Titan, but it wants…

9 years ago

How Telcos Can Avoid Being Left Behind By OTT Players

Cloud, video and IoT applications will drive investment in broadband, but how can operators increase revenues and serve customers directly?

9 years ago

The Nordics: Your Next Data Centre Haven?

Come for the tax, stay for the renewables? Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to get more than €3bn data…

9 years ago

Alibaba Builds Lake-Cooled Data Centre

Latest cloud move from Alibaba's cloud division Aliyun sees Chinese data centre cooled by nearby lake water

9 years ago

Microsoft Continues To Resist Drug Email Handover

Redmond's Cloud data sovereignty fight with the US government continues, as the two sides return to court

9 years ago

Broadband Networks Must Be ‘Reimagined’ For Cloud And Video

Huawei says current networks are built for audio and web and must be simplified, data centre-centric and software defined as…

9 years ago

Equinix Snaps Up Japanese Data Centre Provider Bit-Isle

Acquistion strengthens Equinix's Asia-Pacific footprint with six Japanese data centres

9 years ago

Fujitsu Suffers ‘Five-Day’ Cloud Outage

Fujitsu's California data centre loses power, knocking out IaaS services as investigation continues

9 years ago

Data Centre Laws Postponed In Russia For Facebook, Google

Roskomnadzor comms regulator delays data sovereignty enforcement for big US techies until January amidst data centre build refusals

9 years ago

IDC: AWS Customers Get 64 Percent Lower TCO

Business value of moving to AWS cloud from an on-premise or hosted platform shown in new whitepaper

9 years ago

Watch A Data Centre Get Built In Less Than Two Minutes

Blog: Time lapse video shows complete construction of Cegeka data centre in Holland

9 years ago

Citrix Has Free Kit For Migrating From VMware Horizon To Xen

Free migration service offers a risk-free way to switch to Citrix, which makes for an easier, more intuitive user experience…

9 years ago

Apple’s Green Denmark Data Centre Could Actually Cost Local Residents

Apple's planned Viborg data centre promised to offload excess heat to city, but experts are saying this will require huge…

9 years ago

Intel Pays Mirantis $25m for OpenStack Expertise

Intel's OpenStack interest goes further than just funding as firm seemingly splurges $25m on 'OpenStack resources' from Mirantis

9 years ago

VMware Rolls Out The Red Carpet For Containers With Photon

VMware wants to see all its users use Photon as a layer in the virtualized data center that welcomes containers…

9 years ago

C4L Resolves Service Outage, Blames Software Glitch

'Emergency maintenance' has now been completed after major outage for British data centre

9 years ago

OpenStack Silicon Valley: At Five Years Old, Is OpenStack Ready?

There are the early adopters and the customer success stories, but OpenStack is still fighting Goliaths

9 years ago

IBM Makes OpenStack Blue Box Available In All Data Centres

Users can now deploy and manage their applications on OpenStack-based private clouds from IBM Cloud data centres worldwide

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

Lenovo Agrees Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deal With SimpliVity

Lenovo eyes larger North American market share with X series server packed with SimpliVity's software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure

9 years ago