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Vertiv launches IT testing lab in Poland data centre

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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This facility is the first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) and will enable clients to test environments to improve energy efficiency.
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More pie for me: Alibaba Cloud's aggressive EMEA expansion

Sat, 24th Nov 2018
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After elbowing its way into the EMEA market last month, the Chinese cloud provider has now unveiled the full extent of its product portfolio for the region.
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Corporate data more at risk due to a mobile workforce

Fri, 23rd Nov 2018
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Enterprise data faces unprecedented risk as the mobile workforce grows, with personal devices accessing critical infrastructure, says security experts, Lookout.
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Hyperscalers hurling colossal capital at data centres

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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The old proverb 'you have to spend money to make money' could never be truer than in the hyperscale data centre industry.
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Gemalto building EU data centres to satiate GDPR

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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Gemalto is set to build data centres across the EU to meet the rising demand for cloud-based authentication and GDPR compliance, says SVP Lasnier.
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University of Birmingham deploys UK's largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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After originally deploying just two servers, the University realised it needed more horsepower and added another nine.
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What Brexit? Equinix invests £90m in new London data centre

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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The company is confident Brexit will have no impact on the data centre market in London, with its total investment in the London metro area exceeding £930m.
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Datacentres Ireland gets the ball rolling in Dublin

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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Ireland's largest dedicated gathering of suppliers for data centres today opened in Dublin and is set to span two days.
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Google Cloud CEO stepping down to welcome ex-Oracle exec

Mon, 19th Nov 2018
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Google Cloud has grown significantly under Greene's tenure, but has involved tens of billions of dollars and little gains on AWS and Azure.
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Frankfurt overtakes London as largest data centre cluster

Sat, 17th Nov 2018
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After many forecasts predicting it, a new report of Europe's top 20 data centre clusters has confirmed London has lost its crown to Frankfurt.
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Enterprises to begin closing their data centres

Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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Dan Hushon predicts next year companies will begin bidding farewell (if they haven't already) to their onsite data centres.
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HPE extends cloud-based AI tool InfoSight to servers

Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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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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Cyber crisis continues unabated – is ATP the answer?

Thu, 15th Nov 2018
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Statistics on cybercrime certainly makes for grim reading, and that is set to continue unless businesses take measures to stack the odds better in their favour.
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DDN part of data mining mission on Mars

Thu, 15th Nov 2018
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DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced that it will be playing a role in one of NASA's most critical missions.
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HPE building new supercomputer with €38m price tag

Thu, 15th Nov 2018
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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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Study claims Denmark has been misled by hyperscale data centres

Thu, 15th Nov 2018
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Despite repeated assurances from Danish ministers, almost none of the new hyperscale data centres are reusing their waste heat.
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HPE launches new Datacenter Care capabilities

Wed, 14th Nov 2018
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The company asserts the new capabilities will be delivered by HPE PointNext and will help businesses simplify complex IT environments.
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Digital transformation an almost $2 trillion industry by 2022

Wed, 14th Nov 2018
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Digital transformation investment is set to surge to USD $1.97 trillion by 2022, driven by sectors like manufacturing and retail, says IDC.
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Eccellente! AWS building new data centres in Italy

Wed, 14th Nov 2018
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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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EMEA data centre spending to flatline until Brexit's sorted

Fri, 9th Nov 2018
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EMEA's IT spending stymied by Brexit uncertainty, with data centre and device investments flatlining as security and cloud services gain traction.