Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Find out what IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), what it is used for, which companies are using IaaS, and the types of infrastructure included in this category of cloud services.

March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22
Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK
March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22
Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend
March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22
Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google

Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business
March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22
Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London

Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date

Weighing up the nuclear option for powering datacentres

Resourcing energy-hungry IT through the race to reduce carbon emissions means looking objectively at all the options, including nuclear power Continue Reading
Datacentres and climate change: Operators accused of being all talk and no action on sustainability

Datacentre operators talk a good fight when it comes to tackling climate change, but there is far more they should and could be doing to make their operations more sustainable, say experts Continue Reading
Decarbonising datacentres: Turning the hot air about heat reuse into real-life use cases

Reusing waste heat from datacentres to warm local businesses and homes could bring about considerable reductions in carbon emissions and lower energy costs, so what needs to happen to make this a more widespread practice? Continue Reading

A PC in the cloud

It was going to happen sooner or later. While many regarded Chromebooks as devices merely fit for less intensive computing tasks, they have shown Microsoft and the PC industry a different approach ... Continue Reading
So – We Have The “New Normal” But Then IT Infrastructure’s Changing Anyway…

I was at an event in London at the beginning of the year – in the days when we were allowed to do that kind of thing – a platform migration event as it happens. One of the key takeaways from that ... Continue Reading
The coronavirus effect: How Covid-19 is accelerating enterprise cloud adoption

In this guest post, Dean Gardner, chief technologist for cloud at IT infrastructure provider Softcat, shares his observations on how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the course of cloud adoption ... Continue Reading

Server virtualisation is far from dead

Server virtualisation must be looked upon with an expanded and fresh perspective amid the growing adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Here are seven server virtualisation trends to watch Continue Reading
Hybrid cloud storage: The devils are in the details

When it comes to storage, one thing is clear – cloud does not change everything Continue Reading
Avoid complexity in data storage decisions

With more options for on- and off-premise data storage, the need for simplicity is greater than ever Continue Reading

How Zoom is keeping pace with demand for conferencing tools

Magnus Falk, CIO advisor at Zoom, offers insights on how the company is scaling up its resources to meet the growing usage of its service
2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in the APAC storage market

Find out what Storage initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017
Adrian Davis discusses the evolution of security in the age of IoT

Cloud computing and the internet of things will have a major impact on how security is implemented going forward.