Data centre

Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.

Feature 09 Feb 2024
The rising prominence of hybrid cloud in the Nordics

Many Nordic organisations have opted for hybrid cloud environments, subscribing to the newest services without giving up what they already have. Best practices are beginning to emerge for managing the heterogenous environment Continue Reading
News 08 Feb 2024
Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence

IT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use Continue Reading

Opinion 28 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Recruitment and the regulatory landscape

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
News 27 Jul 2023

IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities Continue Reading
News 26 Jul 2023

Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy

Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas Continue Reading
News 26 Jul 2023

Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear

Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue Continue Reading
News 25 Jul 2023

Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation

With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration Continue Reading
News 25 Jul 2023

Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations Continue Reading
Opinion 25 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: What enterprises need to know about regulation

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
Feature 24 Jul 2023

Generative AI: Automating storage and backup management

We look at how generative artificial intelligence is being deployed to automate monitoring of repetitive tasks and report on enterprise storage and backup, but also the limits to its implementation Continue Reading
News 21 Jul 2023

How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares Continue Reading
News 19 Jul 2023

Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022

IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner Continue Reading
News 19 Jul 2023

CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up

The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate Continue Reading
News 19 Jul 2023

Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps

The latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny Continue Reading
News 19 Jul 2023

Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft Continue Reading
News 18 Jul 2023

The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses

The Football Association is drawing on its long-standing technology partnership with Google Cloud to collect match and player data to support the Lionesses in their training regimes for the Women's World Cup Continue Reading
Definition 18 Jul 2023

real-time monitoring

Real-time monitoring is the delivery of continuously updated data about systems, processes or events. Continue Reading
News 18 Jul 2023

Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks

Two vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed Continue Reading
E-Zine 18 Jul 2023

Computer Weekly: Soaring ahead with data at Rolls-Royce

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how aerospace giant Rolls-Royce is using data science, machine learning and internet of things to improve its competitive advantage. We examine the benefits and best practices in software-defined storage. And we analyse calls for a review of laws around the use of computer evidence prompted by the Post Office IT scandal. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
Opinion 17 Jul 2023

The essential role of PETs in unlocking the trillion dollar SaaS market

Ahead of the Eyes-Off Data Summit in Dublin, Jack Fitzsimons of Oblivious AI explains why so-called Privacy Enhancing Technologies or PETs may hold the key to unlocking the full potential of SaaS in the enterprise Continue Reading
News 17 Jul 2023

Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play

Zoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market Continue Reading
Definition 14 Jul 2023

System Restore (Windows)

System Restore is a Microsoft Windows utility designed to protect and revert the operating system (OS) to a previous state. Continue Reading
News 13 Jul 2023

Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres

Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres Continue Reading
News 13 Jul 2023

BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three and Virgin Media commit to curbing telco supply chain GHG emissions

Twelve telcos and network infrastructure providers have vowed to join forces to help cut the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from their supply chains Continue Reading
News 13 Jul 2023

Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments Continue Reading
Definition 12 Jul 2023

Windows containers

Windows containers provide abstracted, isolated, lightweight and portable operating environments for application development on a single system. Continue Reading
Opinion 12 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Keeping one step ahead of regulation

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
Blog Post 12 Jul 2023

Do batteries pose a fire risk to datacentres?

In this guest post, Jack Pearce, CEO of green critical power systems manufacturer Active Power, outlines the risks involved with using battery-based power in datacentres A datacentre ... Continue Reading
News 11 Jul 2023

Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl

Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans Continue Reading
News 10 Jul 2023

Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri

The Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change Continue Reading
News 10 Jul 2023

Datacentre cross-sector collaboration needed to boost heat reuse rates, report claims

Report by datacentre consultancy BCS looks at what needs to be done to encourage more operators to reuse waste heat from their server farms Continue Reading
Opinion 10 Jul 2023

How Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware will accelerate multi-cloud adoption

How will the $60bn acquisition accelerate the private cloud and how important are regulator concerns about interoperability? Continue Reading
News 10 Jul 2023

How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services Continue Reading
News 07 Jul 2023

Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA

As the UK cloud market braces itself for the publication of Ofcom's final report into the state of the market, Amazon and Microsoft's responses to regulator's interim findings have been made public Continue Reading
Opinion 07 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Keeping on top of the regulatory landscape

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
News 06 Jul 2023

VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC

VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity Continue Reading
News 06 Jul 2023

Schneider Electric makes bid to acquire Atos Group's EcoAct sustainability consultancy business

Energy management giant Schneider Electric has entered into exclusive negotiations with Atos Group about acquiring the sustainability consultancy business it obtained in 2020 Continue Reading
Opinion 05 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Getting a handle on greenhouse gas emissions regulations

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
News 05 Jul 2023

Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption

Google's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy Continue Reading
News 05 Jul 2023

Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers Continue Reading
Opinion 03 Jul 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Green IT regulations and the datacentre

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
News 30 Jun 2023

How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market

The joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market Continue Reading
Opinion 29 Jun 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Making sense of the changing green IT regulatory landscape

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
News 29 Jun 2023

NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools Continue Reading
Feature 29 Jun 2023

Software-defined storage: What’s available from key players

What’s available in software-defined storage from the big storage players, software-defined storage specialists, and SDS options focused on cloud, virtualisation and containers Continue Reading
News 28 Jun 2023

Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development Continue Reading
Feature 28 Jun 2023

Hitachi Vantara: Small part of a big corp and analytics focus

We look at Hitachi Vantara, its storage, its cloud offer, the workloads it targets, and its efforts in containerisation and consumption models of storage purchasing Continue Reading
Definition 28 Jun 2023

heat

Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one physical system to another system or from one region in a physical system to another region. Continue Reading
News 27 Jun 2023

WithSecure forges ahead with green coding initiative

WithSecure’s W/Sustainability programme kickstarts a number of initiatives, including a commitment to green coding the security supplier hopes will set an example for others to follow Continue Reading
News 27 Jun 2023

Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection Continue Reading
Opinion 27 Jun 2023

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Carbon accounting and the changing regulatory landscape

There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? Continue Reading
E-Zine 27 Jun 2023

The politics of AI

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer both spoke at London Tech Week to present their visions of an AI future for the UK – we compare their plans. We talk to the CTO of chip giant AMD about making tech more energy efficient. And we look at optimising networks for hybrid working. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
Definition 23 Jun 2023

milliampere-hour (mAh)

A milliampere-hour (mAh) is one-thousandth of an ampere hour (Ah), which can also be written as 1 mAh = 0.001 Ah. Continue Reading
News 23 Jun 2023

Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

Research from non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe organisation suggests cost of digital transformation is going up for ‘unfair’ reasons Continue Reading
Definition 22 Jun 2023

Linux swappiness

Linux swappiness is a kernel parameter that determines how aggressively the Linux virtual machine (VM) swaps pages between memory and the swap space on the system's disk. Continue Reading
News 22 Jun 2023

Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

A decade after it was first introduced, the government has updated its cloud-first guidance by including nine principles to guide public sector IT buyers through their off-premise purchasing decisions Continue Reading
Podcast 21 Jun 2023

Podcast: Cloud security, compliance and data classification

The rise of cloud has led to a proliferation of enterprise data and a rise in risk. We talk to Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about how to ensure compliance in a multicloud world Continue Reading
News 20 Jun 2023

Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds Continue Reading
Feature 20 Jun 2023

Is the UK datacentre industry set for further consolidation?

Turbulent times make it tricky to predict which way markets will jump, yet UK datacentres continue to grow and hold investor attention Continue Reading
Blog Post 20 Jun 2023

An inconvenient truth: Changing the state of sustainability in IT

In this guest post, Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, technology director at application management software maker ManageEngine, shares an extract from a recent company report from and ten independent IT ... Continue Reading
News 20 Jun 2023

University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals Continue Reading
News 20 Jun 2023

EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive

The energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development Continue Reading
20 Jun 2023

PLC flash: The next generation or a mirage?

PLC could be productised within two years, but chip makers might not think it worth the effort. Will managing multiple voltages be more hassle than adding layers to existing flash? Continue Reading
News 19 Jun 2023

Salvation Army’s trading arm sets sights on helping enterprises reuse their IT devices

Trading arm of Christian church charity The Salvation Army is expanding beyond textile recycling to help businesses reuse and recycle their e-waste Continue Reading
News 19 Jun 2023

Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options

Backup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible Continue Reading
Definition 16 Jun 2023

moves, adds and changes (MAC)

Moves, adds and changes (MAC) refers to a set of tasks that IT teams regularly perform to keep computing equipment up to date and aligned with user and business requirements. Continue Reading
News 16 Jun 2023

CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft

IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard Continue Reading
Feature 16 Jun 2023

Pure Storage: HDDs dead by 2028 and our flash will replace it

Pure Storage says spinning disk is doomed, and only it can provide a replacement. We look at the rationale behind its bold message, and the possible impacts of such a scenario Continue Reading
Blog Post 16 Jun 2023

It’s going to take AI to power AI

This is a guest post by Robert Linsdell, managing director for Australia and New Zealand at critical infrastructure company Vertiv We’re living in an ever-evolving digital world, one which is ... Continue Reading
News 16 Jun 2023

Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner Continue Reading
News 15 Jun 2023

BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification

The British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content Continue Reading
News 15 Jun 2023

Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth

The Climate Tech Supercluster has been launched to aid the growth and development of the green tech startup scene in university towns across the UK and Europe Continue Reading
News 15 Jun 2023

Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times

Study by Tata Consultancy Services confirms enterprises from across the UK and Ireland are continuing to invest in cloud, and see doing so as the gateway to future innovation Continue Reading
News 15 Jun 2023

NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050

Australia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 Continue Reading
Podcast 14 Jun 2023

Podcast: Containers, Kubernetes, data protection and compliance

Containers offer benefits to application deployment, but they proliferate, so tracking them for compliance purposes can be a challenge. We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust Continue Reading
News 14 Jun 2023

Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre Continue Reading
News 14 Jun 2023

Google Cloud signs MoU to accelerate take-up of AI by UK defence sector

Google Cloud is continuing to make in-roads into the UK public sector after signing MoU with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Continue Reading
News 13 Jun 2023

Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development

Against a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development Continue Reading
News 13 Jun 2023

Skills shortages hold back enterprises from reaching multicloud goals

Research highlights the impact skills shortages are having on the ability of enterprises to hit their multicloud goals Continue Reading
News 12 Jun 2023

How Dell is easing edge deployments

Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases Continue Reading
Feature 09 Jun 2023

The impact of generative AI on the datacentre

While artificial intelligence will not live up to its name any time soon, mass adoption of large language models, whether by customers or in-house, requires thinking about by enterprise IT leaders Continue Reading
Podcast 08 Jun 2023

Podcast: Storage, backup, AI and data classification at RSA 2023

Much discussion at RSA 2023 about artificial intelligence, the risks to data protection, storage and compliance, plus risk and data classification, especially its impacts on access and data management Continue Reading
Definition 07 Jun 2023

microfarad

The microfarad -- symbolized as µF using the Greek symbol mu -- is a unit of capacitance, equivalent to 0.000001 farad (F). Continue Reading
Feature 06 Jun 2023

Software-defined storage: What it is and variants available

SDS is available in numerous variants. It is usually cheaper, flexible to deploy and brings storage efficiencies, but there are pitfalls in complexity, management and performance Continue Reading
Opinion 01 Jun 2023

Generative AI – the next biggest cyber security threat?

Following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, several reports have emerged that seek to determine the impact of generative AI in cyber security. Undeniably, generative AI in cyber security is a double-edged sword, but will the paradigm shift in favour of opportunity or risk? Continue Reading
News 31 May 2023

Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings

The hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings Continue Reading
Blog Post 31 May 2023

Keeping cloud costs in check

In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ... Continue Reading
News 31 May 2023

Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage Continue Reading
Blog Post 31 May 2023

Cloud costs: You cannot manage what you cannot see

In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ... Continue Reading
Opinion 31 May 2023

Security Think Tank: A brief history of (secure) coding

From controlling who was allowed to work with IBM mainframes to present-day DevSecOps techniques, the concept of secure coding has a longer history than you might think Continue Reading
News 30 May 2023

Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI

It took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads Continue Reading
News 29 May 2023

Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms Continue Reading
Opinion 26 May 2023

Security Think Tank: Why “secure coding” is neither

Ensuring the security of code is just one element of a complex software lifecycle and risk management process that people need to think about more holistically, says Ed Moyle Continue Reading
Definition 25 May 2023

load shedding

Load shedding (loadshedding) is a way to distribute demand for electrical power across multiple power sources. Continue Reading
News 25 May 2023

BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes Continue Reading
News 23 May 2023

Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region Continue Reading
News 23 May 2023

Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance Continue Reading
News 23 May 2023

Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage Continue Reading
News 22 May 2023

Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure Continue Reading
News 19 May 2023

CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come Continue Reading
Definition 19 May 2023

vendor lock-in

Vendor lock-in is a situation in which a customer using a product or service cannot easily transition to a competitor's product or service. Continue Reading
News 18 May 2023

HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud Continue Reading