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Hungry Six Degrees swallows data centre biz BIS

Thirteenth buy in less than two years

2e2 rescue deal: Daisy swoops in, grabs data centre ops

Oakley Capital owner slurps

Stricken 2e2 sacks 627, winds down, retains a few data centre caretakers

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Dell pulls Magirus out of the trenches for data centre assault

UK arm finally gets the call up

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Converged architecture brings harmony to the data centre

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Japanese giant NTT gobbles London data centre biz Gyron

NTT Communications has coughed an undisclosed financial fur ball to take a majority stake in data centre services provider Gyron. The Hemel Hempstead-based Gyron sells colocation and connectivity services to large enterprises including Adobe, Symantec and music streaming outfit Spotify via a 3 MW server farm on the outskirts of …

Titsup 2e2's data centre dustup gave UK users the CLOUD FEAR

When 2e2 Group suddenly collapsed earlier this year, owing over £400m to trade creditors and stranding a rake of customers from NHS trusts to the Bank of England, a gigantic question mark instantly formed over the cloud. Many customers already had concerns about keeping control of their assets in the cloud. 2e2's rapid collapse …

Stricken 2e2 threatens data centres: Your money or your lights

£40k from biggest fish, £4k from minnows, to keep servers running
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Facebook's Swedish data centre will be subject to Snoop Law

The icy location is a big advantage for the new data centre that Facebook is planning in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. But while the frigid Arctic winds will fan the servers, it's the legal climate that could get hot. A controversial Swedish internet surveillance law passed in 2008 allows the government there to intercept …
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Data centre season down under

As Asia Pacific data centres hit 90 per cent capacity, a new crop of data hubs is blooming across Australia. This week HP unveiled its ‘Next Generation Data Centre’ in western Sydney suburb Eastern Creek, better known as a motor racing hub. The Sydney data centre investment is part of HP’s US$1 billion “transformation” to …

Microsoft data centre guru skips over to cloud-flirty Apple

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Amazon buys bloody big shed for Dublin data centre

Every little helps

Gather round, EMC's ol' man Tucci knows Big Data's 'killer app'

Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis

College sticks cloud into geothermal igloo data centre

Investing in Iceland. What could go wrong?

Xio shells data centre citadels with barrels of disks

Growing Hyper ISE biz eyes up global domination

Symantec fends off VMware for data centre throne

Symantec Vision Virtualisation and clouds targeted

Deduper Sepaton edges out from data centre

ROBO DS3: Chunky unit

Should your data centre look more like Google’s?

Reader Study Or is that just a stupid idea?

Atomic Weapons Establishment ditches 2e2 in funding row

Stricken integrator 2e2's administrator has confirmed in a letter to staff that the Atomic Weapons Establishment, one of its data centre customers, walked after it was asked to pay thousands of pounds to keep the server farm up and running. FTI Consulting, hauled in to take charge of 2e2 late January, told remaining staff at the …

Opinion

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to

Features

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