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Intel Cutting 12,000 Jobs As Pivot To Cloud And IoT Continues
Chipmaker reports steady revenues, but is taking a $1.2bn restructuring charge as company pushes cloud and IoT 'growth engines'
Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?
Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the figures correct?
UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites
123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million sites it hosts
Microsoft Knows It Needs To Be ‘Explicit And Transparent’ With Customer Data
As Microsoft sues US gov for the right to alert customers when their data is snooped upon, its cloud director tells TechWeekEurope 'trust' is at heart of Azure strategy
Quiz Of The Week: Facebook
Facebook is the world's biggest social network and one of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley, but what do you know about it?
Box CEO Supports Apple In FBI Battle But Looks At Privacy Shield Alternatives
Box CEO Aaron Levie says there needs to be a discussion between the tech industry and authorities about digital regulation as privacy becomes hot topic
Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale
IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product, not hardware
Microsoft Will Open German Data Centres In June
Microsoft’s two German data centres will be opened on a rolling basis, with Office 365 coming in September, three months after the Azure launch
Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres
Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and performance
Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion
Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner
Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre
Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site
Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges
New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator
LinkedIn Opens First International Data Centre In Singapore
LinkedIn said that growth in Asia Pacific has led to increased demand on its infrastructure
Equinix Releases Data Hub For Enterprises Wanting Power On The Edge
Equinix claims it can solve data demands brought on by real-time analytics, IoT, and data protection by moving storage and power closer to source and users
Ericsson Acquires Data Centre Automation Startup NodePrime
Ericsson says all-cash purchase is 'strategic' to its cloud offering, integrates NodePrime's software into Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000
Brocade Acquires Ruckus Wireless In £1bn Networking Deal
Wireless infrastructure player scooped up by Brocade to strengthen 5G and Wi-Fi services amid growing demands for networking speed and capacity
Intel Tightens Cloud Focus With New Xeon Chips, SSDs And Partnerships
Chip giant expands Xeon line with new processor models and partnerships to aid cloud workload migrations
HPE, Dell, Lenovo Refresh Servers With Intel’s New Xeon E5 Chips
HPE also is introducing its new Persistent Memory technology on two of its ProLiant systems that is designed to speed up database workloads
‘The Bunker’ Wins Britain’s Most Picturesque Data Centre Award
Beating hundreds of other competitors, Sandwich’s The Bunker deemed to have the ‘X’ Factor
5 Things You Need To Know About The Data Centre Colocation Market
How is the colocation data centre market reacting to increased demand from enterprises for cloud services?
Brocade’s StackStorm Acquisition Will Bring Data Centre DevOps To Networks
Startup StackStorm specialises in DevOps - and Brocade thinks the company's open source software can help its customers act more like the cloud giants
Newcastle ‘Data’ Centre Will Cost £30m And Create 1,000 Jobs
Newcastle University matches Budget's £15m pledge for big data research centre that will help businesses exploit benefits of a data-driven economy
How To Break Into A Google Data Centre
Google lifts the lid on its data centre security, revealing laser beam security and biometric verification for employees
Oracle Ships Public Cloud To Its Customers’ Own Data Centres
Oracle Cloud at Customer gives CIOs a potential workaround for regulatory and legislative barriers holding back public cloud adoption
Google Set For Massive Cloud Expansion With 12 New Data Centres
Google reveals plans for 12 new data centres in bid to catch up with Amazon Web Services - the first two will hit Tokyo and Oregon this year
UK Lagging In Terms Of Data Centres, But Cloud Giant Expansions Will Change That
UK plays host to less than 5 percent of world's major cloud data centres, but expansions from AWS, Google, and Microsoft will boost the region in 2016
Google Shares Details Of Its Software-Defined Load Balancer
The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight years, company says
Data Centre Outage Causes Drama For Theatre Ticket Seller
Data centres: "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." Rack's faulty network switch knocks out theatre ticketing system provider
Apple Reveals Data Centre Requests From Chinese Government
Company reveals dealings with Chinese government ahead of US court case with the FBI