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Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) have renewed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) such that the supplier will facilitate access to its cloud infrastructure as well as its suite of cloud-delivered applications.
The agreement also covers the beefing up of what the supplier...
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HPE has reported net revenue of $6.7bn for its second quarter of 2021, up 11% from the prior-year period.
The company said its Aruba Central SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform continued to grow, up triple-digits from Q2 2020. Overall, it reported growth of 41% in “as-a-service” revenue.
Its...
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Digital transformation initiatives have been accelerated by the Covid pandemic, as organisations have been forced to intensify digital channels to their workforce and customers.
But digital transformation is a strategic trend visible across all verticals, driven by the gains that can be made by more responsive,...
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Armed with the right approach, legacy datacentre infrastructure can be reinvented to increase capacity, support new and emerging business services and reduce operating costs.
As part of this approach, organisations with existing workloads remaining within their datacentres must decide how best to restructure their physical infrastructures...
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Backup appliance supplier ExaGrid has paid a $2.6m ransom to cyber criminals that targeted the company with Conti ransomware.
The ransom was paid in the form of 50.75 bitcoins on 13 May, according to information gained by ComputerWeekly.com’s French sister publication LeMagIT.
Accession to the ransomware...
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Microsoft is giving developers the ability to run and monitor containerised applications on any cloud or on-premise, including AWS and Google Cloud.
In a blog describing the company’s plans for cloud-native computing, Gabe Monroy, vice-president, Azure developer experience, wrote: “One of the challenges we continue to...
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Oil and gas exploration company Summit E&P has cut backup licence costs in half after switching from Veeam to Hycu and migrating from VMware to Nutanix and its native hypervisor, AHV.
Summit, a UK-based subsidiary of the Sumitomo Corporation, has only 17 employees but holds...
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Industry watchers are already predicting another record-breaking year of take up for the European datacentre market, as demand for colocation capacity – particularly in London – continues to soar.
As is the often the case for any market that is going through a sustained period of...
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The Irish High Court has dismissed a legal challenge by Facebook against a draft decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) to suspend Facebook Ireland’s transfer of data about European residents to the US.
Justice David Barniville ruled last week that Facebook Ireland had not established...
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Demands for datacentres to pipe waste heat into central heating systems in people’s homes rather than the warming atmosphere have hit financial and technological obstacles in Denmark.
Aspiring green datacentre operator Digiplex promised public officials it would redirect its waste heat to a district heating network after seeking permission in...
