Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

Learn how to green your datacentre with advice on increasing datacentre energy efficiency, building a case for a sustainable datacentre, and complying with UK and EU energy-efficiency regulations.

News 13 Jun 2024
AI’s environmental cost could outweigh sustainability benefits

Artificial intelligence can help organisations manage and mitigate their environmental impacts in a number of ways, but the highly polluting nature of the technology could outweigh its other sustainability benefits if not dealt with Continue Reading
Tip 12 Jun 2024
8 green computing best practices

As climate change becomes a more pressing issue, these sustainability best practices can help your data center go greener, which benefits both your business and the environment. Continue Reading

News 28 Feb 2020

Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they? Continue Reading
Podcast 25 Feb 2020

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 48

In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss tech billionaires pledging to solve climate change, M&S smart lighting and open data in the EU Continue Reading
News 20 Feb 2020

Executive interview: Making IT sustainable

Defra recently reported that “cloud-first” IT strategies are driving green information and communications technology in government. This puts a greater emphasis on datacentre transparency Continue Reading
News 18 Feb 2020

Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change

Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market Continue Reading
E-Zine 11 Feb 2020

How the Post Office caused so much misery

In this week’s Computer Weekly, after a landmark legal victory against the Post Office over a faulty IT system, campaigner Alan Bates shares his 20-year story of trials and triumph. Oracle is under fire over its cloud sales practices – we examine the claims. And we look at the sustainability challenges for datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
10 Feb 2020

From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid

With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
News 27 Jan 2020

Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019

While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row Continue Reading
News 24 Jan 2020

HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to 'decarbonise' datacentres across the world

HPE has joined forces with tech leaders and academics in Switzerland to support the take-up of a datacentre accreditation geared towards improving the energy efficiency of server farms worldwide Continue Reading
Feature 21 Jan 2020

Mixing it up: Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT

Cloud computing has long been tipped as the technology that will displace enterprise datacentres in CIOs’ affections, but that is not quite how the story is playing out Continue Reading
Blog Post 21 Jan 2020

Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge

Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ... Continue Reading
News 20 Jan 2020

Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north Continue Reading
News 17 Jan 2020

Davos 2020: Why IT sector must address climate issues

Climate change is set to be top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum, with Microsoft chief Satya Nadella declaring he aims to delete the company’s emissions Continue Reading
News 14 Jan 2020

What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital? Continue Reading
Opinion 14 Jan 2020

Putting edge computing centre stage in the UK’s fourth industrial revolution

The fourth industrial revolution will see every sector become a data-driven digital sector, with computing at the edge – which has power implications Continue Reading
News 27 Dec 2019

Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019 Continue Reading
Feature 20 Dec 2019

From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid

With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
News 04 Dec 2019

AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources Continue Reading
News 03 Dec 2019

AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint Continue Reading
News 18 Nov 2019

How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack Continue Reading
E-Zine 07 Nov 2019

CW Benelux: Dutch banks fight money laundering

Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts. Also read in this issue how companies could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those at rival employers, and why a Dutch province is pioneering a no-code software development platform. Continue Reading
News 05 Nov 2019

TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts

Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 Continue Reading
Podcast 05 Nov 2019

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 35

In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team pick over the finale of Channel 4 reality show The Circle, talk General Election tech and find out why enterprises are not prepared to pay a premium for business applications infused with AI Continue Reading
News 05 Nov 2019

Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona Continue Reading
News 25 Oct 2019

Defra sustainable ICT paper highlights datacentre water crisis

A new paper on sustainable ICT published by Defra in conjunction with the IT industry has identified the areas of e-waste that need urgent attention Continue Reading
News 22 Oct 2019

Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built? Continue Reading
News 16 Oct 2019

Government IT hosting providers fail to provide emissions data

Cloud computing is driving the government’s IT and sustainable tech strategy, but cloud and hosting providers are unable to divulge emissions data Continue Reading
News 08 Oct 2019

All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists Continue Reading
News 03 Oct 2019

Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies Continue Reading
News 30 Sep 2019

German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web Continue Reading
News 30 Sep 2019

HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users

HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy Continue Reading
News 24 Sep 2019

Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits Continue Reading
24 Sep 2019

Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change

The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems. Continue Reading
E-Zine 24 Sep 2019

Climate change – the challenge for datacentres

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the impact of climate change on datacentres as potential victims and contributors to the problem. We look at the rise of voice channels and how IT leaders can use the technology for better customer experience. And we ask what lessons must be learned from Ecuador’s citizens’ data breach. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
News 20 Sep 2019

Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage Continue Reading
News 20 Sep 2019

Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment

Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase Continue Reading
Podcast 17 Sep 2019

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 30

The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team returns from its brief summer hiatus to discuss HPE’s hardware refresh processes, the financial services industry’s changing relationship with cloud and a charity that is helping people with chronic illnesses find work in tech Continue Reading
News 16 Sep 2019

DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020 Continue Reading
News 12 Sep 2019

Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate Continue Reading
News 12 Sep 2019

Kao Data secures EMBL-EBI as tenant as bid to become leading life sciences colo gathers pace

Essex-based wholesale datacentre operator Kao Data’s bid to become the colocation provider of choice for the life sciences community sees it secure the European Bioinformatics Institute as a client Continue Reading
E-Zine 12 Sep 2019

CW Europe: Dutch authorities call temporary halt to datacentre construction

Two Dutch municipalities are putting all datacentre construction on hold while they put together a strategy to help them control developments. A local alderman said datacentres take up a lot of space and place a large burden on the electricity grid. Also read how France is racing ahead of Germany in making the most of service companies in India, and about Google’s plans for a new datacentre and technology training hub in Finland. Continue Reading
News 09 Sep 2019

Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy Continue Reading
News 02 Sep 2019

Nordic greentech attracts investment

The Nordic region is seeing digital innovation across a diverse range of sectors and, not surprisingly, a region known for its green credentials also has a burgeoning green technology (greentech) sector Continue Reading
News 27 Aug 2019

Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report

Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand Continue Reading
News 20 Aug 2019

YPO debuts £400m datacentre and cloud framework for local councils and schools

Procurement management organisation YPO has set live a public sector framework designed to support local authorities and educational institutions embrace hybrid cloud Continue Reading
News 08 Aug 2019

British Airways resolves IT systems issues that forced it to ground and delay hundreds of flights

British Airways has confirmed the IT system-related technical difficulties that resulted in it having to cancel hundreds of flights have been resolved Continue Reading
Feature 07 Aug 2019

Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change

The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems Continue Reading
News 01 Aug 2019

Amazon to build second wind power plant in Ireland to support AWS green cloud push

Amazon sets out plans to ramp up availability of green power in Ireland and US, as its push to make its datacentre fleet run in a more sustainable way continues apace Continue Reading
Feature 01 Aug 2019

Log management: Helping IT admins to achieve infrastructure-wide visibility

When properly configured and deployed, log management tools can unearth a veritable treasure trove of data that IT administrators can use to triage and diagnose problems in enterprise IT infrastructures Continue Reading
News 01 Aug 2019

Enterprise-readiness of business cloud services found lacking in Netskope research

Latest analysis of cloud and internet usage trends in the enterprise space by Netskope suggests the majority of the off-premise services businesses use are not fit for purpose from a security and data protection standpoint Continue Reading
News 30 Jul 2019

Google increases presence and investments in Finland

New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland Continue Reading
News 25 Jul 2019

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud

Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years Continue Reading
News 25 Jul 2019

HPE and SAP among tech industry backers of UN climate change mitigation campaign

Enterprise tech giants HPE and SAP are among a number of technology firms which have responded to the UN’s calls for corporations to do more to reduce the risk of global warming and cut their emissions Continue Reading
News 16 Jul 2019

Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds Continue Reading
News 15 Jul 2019

Green datacentre goes live in Goonhilly to support AI ambitions of enterprises and academia

Almost a year to the day after it was announced, a renewably-powered datacentre has gone live at Goonhilly Earth Station, as the radio-communications site prepares to position itself as an AI innovation hub Continue Reading
News 10 Jul 2019

Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies Continue Reading
News 09 Jul 2019

Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges Continue Reading
News 08 Jul 2019

Case study: Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space

Datacentre operator Green Mountain embraces Schneider Electric's pre-fabricated datacentre designs to ensure it is positioned to respond to the growing demand from the hyperscale and HPC communities for colocation capacity in Norway Continue Reading
Feature 02 Jul 2019

Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre

The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
News 27 Jun 2019

MPs to probe UK’s growing e-waste problem

The parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into electronic waste and the circular economy Continue Reading
News 25 Jun 2019

Growing diversity of datacentre types revealed in latest Vertiv 2025 market predictions study

Datacentre power specialist’s latest poll on what the industry will look like in 2025 reveals a change in attitude from respondents to powering sites with renewable energy, and shines a light on how its looming skills crisis is developing Continue Reading
News 12 Jun 2019

Apple cancels plans to build second European datacentre in Denmark

The consumer electronics giant plans to focus its efforts on expanding its soon-to-be completed datacentre in Denmark, rather than invest in standing up a second facility in the country Continue Reading
News 07 Jun 2019

Schneider Electric CTO claims AI and cloud could give DCIM market new lease of life

Kevin Brown tells Datacloud Europe Congress that the datacentre infrastructure management market could be on the cusp of a second coming, buoyed by cloud, big data and artificial intelligence technologies Continue Reading
News 06 Jun 2019

Datacentre operators under pressure to embrace sustainability as climate change activism rises

The rise in climate change activism across the globe means consumers are becoming increasingly likely to vote with their feet and shun brands that do not operate in a sustainable way, and datacentre operators must prepare Continue Reading
News 06 Jun 2019

Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type of work it involves Continue Reading
News 03 Jun 2019

Nordics block European Commission tech tax levy to protect digital investment

The Nordic EU countries have formed a powerful voice against the European Commission’s plans on digital service tax. Continue Reading
News 30 May 2019

Microsoft embarks on renewable-powered datacentre push in Sweden

Microsoft is doubling down on its efforts to have more of its datacentres powered by renewable energy, with commitment to make its facilities in Sweden the most sustainable yet Continue Reading
News 29 May 2019

Inside Digital Realty’s datacentre playbook

Digital Realty’s chief technology officer talks up key trends that are shaping its business and the datacentre industry, including edge computing and the impending roll-out of 5G networks Continue Reading
News 15 May 2019

Inward investment into Irish datacentre market set to top €10bn by 2022, research claims

Latest quarterly market report from Host In Ireland shines a light on how the Irish economy is benefiting from the country’s ongoing development into key European datacentre hub Continue Reading
News 15 May 2019

Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push

Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains Continue Reading
News 16 Apr 2019

Microsoft sets stricter renewable energy targets for its datacentres

Software giant claims its efforts to have its datacentres run exclusively on renewable power are progressing faster than expected, prompting it to reassess its own self-imposed sustainability targets Continue Reading
News 15 Apr 2019

Conclusion of legal row over Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre fuels site takeover hopes

After four years of planning delays and legal wrangles, Irish Supreme Court dismisses appeal lodged by objectors to the Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build Continue Reading
News 11 Apr 2019

Google doubles down on machine learning to drive up energy efficiency of global datacentre fleet

With enterprises becoming more mindful of how sustainable their IT consumption habits are, Google outlines its work to ensure the datacentres underpinning its cloud platform continue to push the envelope on energy efficiency Continue Reading
News 09 Apr 2019

Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure Continue Reading
Feature 04 Apr 2019

Blackout after Brexit: UK datacentres brace for post-EU power supply and cost changes

As the uncertainty over how the UK intends to extricate itself from the European Union rumbles on, datacentre operators are weighing up how Brexit might affect the availability and cost of the power they need to run their facilities in future Continue Reading
News 28 Mar 2019

Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam Continue Reading
Podcast 19 Mar 2019

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 8

In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team reminisces over 30 years of the World Wide Web, gets the low-down on what happened at this year’s Cloud Expo and digs a little deeper into the user IT implications of Brexit Continue Reading
News 18 Mar 2019

UKCloud secures £25m investment to support multi-cloud public sector push

G-Cloud-listed IT services firm UKCloud has received a sizeable financial boost to support its efforts to cater to the differentiated demands of public sector technology buyers Continue Reading
News 08 Mar 2019

Legal row over Apple's abandoned bid to build an Irish datacentre rumbles on

The Supreme Court has opted to reserve its judgement until a later date about whether or not Irish planning chiefs were right to award Apple planning permission for its now defunct plan to build a datacentre in Athenry Continue Reading
Feature 08 Mar 2019

Room to spare: Could space constraints slow London's record-breaking datacentre growth spree?

The London colocation market enjoyed another record year of growth in 2018, thanks to the hyperscale cloud community's insatiable demand for datacentre capacity. But is the capital running out of space? Continue Reading
Blog Post 28 Feb 2019

MWC 2019: Our planet is dying - is it time to ditch Mobile World Congress?

This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ... Continue Reading
Podcast 26 Feb 2019

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 5

In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team discuss Greenpeace’s latest datacentre sustainability research, the work the government is doing to support the growth of the UK’s AI talent pool, and covers how Kellogg's is embracing virtual reality tech Continue Reading
News 20 Feb 2019

AWS and Greenpeace at war over claims cloud giant has ‘turned its back’ on renewable energy pledge

Amazon Web Services hits back at Greenpeace for suggesting it has 'turned its back' on powering its cloud with renewable energy, as a new report claims its growth could be driving the use of fossil fuels in Virginia Continue Reading
Podcast 19 Feb 2019

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 4

In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team covers Matt Hancock’s bid to get the NHS to embrace email, the government’s push to extend IR35 to the private sector, and how technology can transform staff training Continue Reading
News 18 Feb 2019

IT Priorities 2019: Cloud migrations emerge as top investment area for IT decision-makers

This year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities research shows a growing appetite among UK IT leaders to move more of their IT estate and applications to the cloud Continue Reading
News 11 Feb 2019

Legal & General Capital ploughs investment into Kao Data’s Essex-based datacentre campus

Financial services giant’s investment arm embarks on sizeable investment to support the continued expansion of Kao Data's colocation campus in Harlow Continue Reading
News 07 Feb 2019

T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh

The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has culled the number of datacentres it operates from 89 to 13, but claims to have seen its compute capacity increase by 25% Continue Reading
News 29 Jan 2019

Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures Continue Reading
News 04 Jan 2019

Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief

A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre Continue Reading
News 18 Dec 2018

Defra unveils green government tech vision

Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover Continue Reading
News 14 Dec 2018

Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector Continue Reading
News 06 Dec 2018

Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019 Continue Reading
Feature 30 Nov 2018

Intel Cascade Lake vs AMD Rome: Who will rule the datacentre roost in 2019?

Intel and AMD are both making a renewed push into the enterprise datacentre market in 2019, with both set to release new processors. We take a look at what they have to offer Continue Reading
News 30 Nov 2018

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declares Oracle data warehouse switch-off as 2018 work highlight

During the closing keynote at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the CTO of the cloud giant's parent company opened up about the career highs and lows of working for Amazon.com Continue Reading
News 22 Nov 2018

Equinix, Digital Realty and NGD fuel UK colocation market growth with datacentre expansions

Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty and Next Generation Data open up about the multi-million pound commitments they are making to expanding their datacentre footprint in the UK Continue Reading
News 21 Nov 2018

BA to sue CBRE over May Bank Holiday datacentre outage

Airline is taking legal action against the managed service provider tasked with overseeing the management of its datacentres during its outage in May 2017 Continue Reading
News 21 Nov 2018

Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to business communications Continue Reading
News 20 Nov 2018

Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers Continue Reading
E-Zine 08 Nov 2018

CW Benelux: Bikes face scooter challenge in Netherlands

The concept of rental scooters is perfect for the Netherlands, where bicycles are already the most widely used method of transport. Scooter startups see the potential to apply the latest smart technologies to the concept, but regulations could be a barrier. Also in this issue, read how chatbots are taking off with Dutch organisations, with KLM's chatbot a pioneering example, and find out how Dutch bank ING is getting a financial boost from an employee performance management rethink. Continue Reading
News 07 Nov 2018

Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion

Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson Continue Reading
News 06 Nov 2018

Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona Continue Reading