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Google’s new €600m Denmark data centre: The facts

The relentless march of the hyperscalers continues with today’s announcement that Google is committing a whopping €600 million to a new data centre in Denmark.

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AWS tops all four global markets, APAC a unique case

The order of proceedings remains relatively the same in three of the four major regions for public cloud services providers, but the APAC market is bolstered by the prominence of China.

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Huawei obtains world’s first PUE test certificate for modular data center product

Huawei is supposedly committed to providing users with green, efficient and reliable data center energy solutions.

Five secrets – Workday’s 2019 winning formulas

We thoroughly investigate why business software vendor Workday believes 2019 will be their best year yet.

Exclusive: Strengths and limitations of the AWS/Cisco partnership

Iguazio CEO Yaron Haviv discusses whether the partnership really is a 'match made in heaven' and what it means for the industry.

Google Cloud CEO stepping down to welcome ex-Oracle exec

Google Cloud has grown significantly under Greene's tenure, but has involved tens of billions of dollars and little gains on AWS and Azure.

Mobile Infrastructure market sees fastest growth since 2014

The report from Dell’Oro shows that while the vendor rankings for the top three vendors remained unchanged with Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia leading.

HPE unveils AI-driven operations for ProLiant, Synergy and Apollo servers

With global learning and predictive analytics capabilities based on real-world operational data, HPE InfoSight supposedly drives down operating costs.

Enterprises to begin closing their data centres

Dan Hushon predicts next year companies will begin bidding farewell (if they haven't already) to their onsite data centres.

Exclusive: How the separation of Amazon and AWS could affect the cloud market

"Amazon Web Services is one of the rare companies that can be a market leader but remain ruthlessly innovative and agile."

HPE extends cloud-based AI tool InfoSight to servers

HPE asserts it is a big deal as the system can drive down operating costs, plug disruptive performance gaps, and free up time to allow IT staff to innovate.

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'Public cloud is not a panacea' - 91% of IT leaders want hybrid

Nutanix research suggests cloud interoperability and app mobility outrank cost and security for primary hybrid cloud benefits.

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Altaro introduces WAN-optimised replication for VMs

"WAN-optimised replication allows businesses to continue working in the case of damage to on-premise servers."

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DDN part of data mining mission on Mars

DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced that it will be playing a role in one of NASA’s most critical missions.

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IBM VP: How are CIOs mastering a multi-cloud world?

IBM's Jim Freeman discusses how CIOs are making the most of multi-cloud as a new generation of cloud tools emerge.

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NTT Com establishing new data centre construction company

The new wholly owned subsidiary will completely handle data centre construction, asset management, and wholesale services.

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Organisations lack holistic approach to data protection

It is paramount for organisations to have a clear understanding of what data protection is and close the gaps in their protection strategies.

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Toshiba develops a high-speed algorithm for deep learning processors

Toshiba is continuously focusing on the research and development of AI technologies.

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Whitepaper: Why it’s critical to detect cyber attacks as they happen

"Many organisations are struggling to keep pace with the speed in which hackers are attacking their systems."

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Why Cognizant is at the forefront of cloud migration

“Cognizant leveraged its deep cloud technology to architect, design and build SAP systems on HANA."

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Digital transformation an almost $2 trillion industry by 2022

"The unprecedented speed at which technologies are coming to market supporting DX strategies can only be described as frantic."

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Three effective strategies for protecting your backups from ransomware

Three key things you should be doing with your data protection strategy to make sure your backups are there when you need them most.

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Opinion: Edge computing will turn the cloud upside down

Rittal's Clive Partridge discusses the merits of edge computing and why it won't kill the cloud, but it will certainly change it.

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Retail transformation fuelling data centre boom

A new Vertiv report has forecast data centres and public cloud adoption to skyrocket in the coming years throughout the retail industry.

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Fujitsu providing servers for data centre inside a wind turbine

"There is plenty of space inside many wind turbine towers for IT and infrastructure equipment, enabling the low-emissions distributed data centres of the future."

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HPE opens up ‘cloud above the clouds’ for space travel

HPE today announced it is launching high performance computing capabilities to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) following a successful 12 month experiment.

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Schneider reveals Uptime Institute-ready pre-fab data centres

“Prefabricated and Modular data centres are on a growth trajectory as organizations strive to bring business services closer to their constituents."

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Hitachi Vantara bolsters analytics with REAN Cloud acquisition

After revealing its intent in July this year, Hitachi Vantara has announced the completion of its acquisition of REAN Cloud.

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Cisco and AWS collaborate for hybrid cloud platform

News has emerged of more data centre giants forging public cloud partnerships.

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Study claims Denmark has been misled by hyperscale data centres

Despite repeated assurances from Danish ministers, almost none of the new hyperscale data centres are reusing their waste heat.

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Opinion: Data centre management can learn from the Navy

While a nuclear submarine may seem like a completely different beast from a data centre, the similarities in how they should be managed are striking and many.

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Workday – who are they and what do they do?

We quickly summarise everything you need to know about the up and coming business software leader.

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Heat waste of Microsoft’s submarine data centre not acceptable

An expert has shared his findings into Microsoft's underwater data centre project, saying the waste heat is unacceptable for climate change.

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VMware achieves carbon neutrality two years early

“As an innovative company with sustainability at our core, we are thrilled to announce our achievement of carbon neutrality two years ahead of our 2020 goal."

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Dell EMC advances hybrid cloud for VMware environments

Through collaboration and joint engineering, Dell EMC and VMware are enabling organisations to derive more value from IT investments.

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Digital Realty claims sustainability award at REITworld 2018

The company took home the National Association of Real Estate Investments Trust (Nareit) data centre ‘Leader in the Light’ award for the second consecutive year.

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14 milestones Workday has achieved in 2018

We look into the key achievements of business software vendor Workday this year

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HPE building new supercomputer with €38m price tag

It will be installed at the High Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart and will be the world's fastest for industrial production.

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Eccellente! AWS building new data centres in Italy

The new infrastructure region is expected to be complete in early 2020 to enable customers to run workloads and store data in Italy with even lower latency.

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HPE launches new Datacenter Care capabilities

The company asserts the new capabilities will be delivered by HPE PointNext and will help businesses simplify complex IT environments.

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Interview: VR’s imminent impact on the data centre

Interxion's Bryan Hill shares his insights on the impact VR will have on the data centre industry, whether we have the necessary infrastructure, and the potential risks.

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The six golden keys to successful identity assurance

When someone tries to access your internal systems, how can you be sure a user is who they claim to be?

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IBM targets hybrid cloud with VMware partnership

BM and VMware have announced a new partnership intended to accelerate enterprise hybrid cloud adoption.

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VMware’s bid to accelerate enterprise adoption of Kubernetes

“Kubernetes is emerging as an open framework for multi-cloud infrastructure that enables business transformation."

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Cisco expands security capabilities of SD-WAN portfolio

Until now, SD-WAN solutions have forced IT to choose between application experience or security.

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Huawei’s AI chip for edge computing takes top honours at WIC

The World Internet Conference saw Huawei's powerful Ascend 310 chip come out on top.

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Cambium enters multibillion-dollar Ethernet switching market

"Enterprise IT managers, MSPs and ISPs need affordable enterprise-grade solutions that satisfy end users."

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Nadella confident future data centres will be underwater

In June this year Microsoft stretched the boundaries of data centres by dumping one in the sea and Nadella says there will be many more.

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Intel who? AWS opts with AMD chips for cost-savings

AMD shares surged about four percent after the announcement that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be employing its services.

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Survey: App dev is surging, but how are businesses doing it?

Today “every company is in the software business" to get a competitive edge, and this survey reveals how app dev is affecting IT teams.

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Workday customers start deployments to AWS infrastructure

Business software vendor Workday has turned it's previously announced AWS partnership into a reality.

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90% of enterprises to adopt multi/hybrid cloud by 2024

IDC has compiled its top ten global IT predictions for the coming years during the 'second chapter' of digital transformation.

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VMware Cloud on AWS steps on the gas for global expansion

VMware Cloud on AWS has accelerated its global expansion - instead of one new AWS site per quarter, they're launching three new regions this month.