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Kao Data secures financial injection to expand operations

Tue, 12th Feb 2019
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London wholesale colocation data centre services provider Kao Data has sealed a deal with a significant investment partner.
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​​​​​​​Park Place jumps aboard girls in STEM initiative

Sat, 9th Feb 2019
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​​​​​​​It's no secret that the IT industry and data centre circles are short of female representation, and this trio hopes to help overcome that issue.
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Germany watchdog calls out Facebook's 'abuse of power'

Fri, 8th Feb 2019
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Germany's Bundeskartellamt has ruled Facebook abused its power through unrestricted data collection, demanding user consent to merge data from various sources.
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GDPR: 59,000 breach reports, 91 fines and counting

Thu, 7th Feb 2019
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cybersecurity
Since GDPR's inception in May 2018, over 59,000 data breaches have been reported, leading to 91 fines, including a EUR €50 million fine for Google.
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London's pricy data centres allow Frankfurt to overtake

Thu, 17th Jan 2019
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According to a new report, data centre pricing in the UK is among the highest in Europe, which is seeing other countries prosper.
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EU cloud adoption rising, but still far from mainstream

Tue, 18th Dec 2018
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Cloud adoption is surging among some European Union (EU) nations but it still has a way to go to becoming commonplace across the board.
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DataCentres Ireland 2018 heralded as a great success

Tue, 4th Dec 2018
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Data Centers Ireland achieves record-breaking attendance with over 1,600 attendees at this year's event in Dublin.
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AWS provides a shot in the Arm with new servers

Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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While it can't claim to be the first one to deploy them, it does win the race of the cloud giants in offering the architecture as a cloud service.
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Europol cracks down on counterfeit sites; arrests 12 people

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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Europol and law enforcement authorities from 26 countries have dismantled an online counterfeit goods ring and arrested 12 people.
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Park Place opening EMEA ops centre in Cork, jobs up for grabs

Tue, 27th Nov 2018
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The world's largest post-warranty data centre maintenance organisation has announced that it will be opening its new EMEA Operations Centre in Cork, Ireland.
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Google's new €600m Denmark data centre: The facts

Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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The relentless march of the hyperscalers continues with today's announcement that Google is committing a whopping €600 million to a new data centre in Denmark.
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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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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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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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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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DataCentres Ireland 2018 just around the corner

Fri, 9th Nov 2018
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DataCentres Ireland 2018, the nation's largest event for the industry, kicks off 20-21 November. Expect expert insights, networking, and keynotes from leaders.
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VMware Cloud on AWS steps on the gas for global expansion

Wed, 7th Nov 2018
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VMware Cloud on AWS has accelerated its global expansion - instead of one new AWS site per quarter, they're launching three new regions this month.
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Exclusive: CyrusOne's Europe data centre strategy laid bare

Fri, 2nd Nov 2018
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The US-based company has recently initiated an aggressive expansion into Europe, and in this exclusive interview Europe MD Matt Pullen reveals the plans.
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UK's third party data centre market largest in Europe

Thu, 18th Oct 2018
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Data centre markets across Europe are undergoing rapid expansion, but the UK still holds its place at the top of the pile.
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Iron Mountain achieves 100% renewable energy at EU data centres

Tue, 25th Sep 2018
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Iron Mountain celebrates 100% renewable energy milestone at its EU data centres, improving sustainability in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the UK.