DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - UK & Ireland, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Kao teams up with Megaport for private network
Kao improves its cloud connectivity and Megaport gets closer to Cambridge
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Proximity DC launches three Edge locations in NW England
The company wants to have 20 facilities by the end of next year
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Sophos suffers security breach, second incident this year
The cybersecurity company revealed the breach in an email to clients
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Dundee City Council has moved IT workloads to the Cloud
The council used Brightsolid to oversee the migration
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IONOS secures permission for data center in Worcester, UK
The company will be moving its servers over when finally built
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Kao Data names Lee Myall as CEO, Paul Finch returns to COO role
Kao is currently looking at expanding its campus in Harlow
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Echelon DC to fund electricity substation for giant off-shore Irish wind farm
SSE's 500MW Arklow Bank Wind Park gets a land connection and a 100MW customer
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Newcastle City Council consolidates into new data center
The council can also charge other government organizations for hosting
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Oracle rolls out two Government Cloud Regions in the UK
The two Clouds will be linked via Oracle's private network
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Equinix to build two data centers in Manchester, UK
The data centers will be built in two warehouses that have stood empty since 2018
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Google buys 33-acre UK site for potential data center
It leases space in the UK, but has yet to build its own facility in the country
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Nokia scores BT 5G supply contract, squeezing out Huawei
Nokia will gradually replace Huawei's kit throughout BT's network
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Ireland's Eir remains committed to keeping Huawei in its 5G network
Until the EU says otherwise...
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NTT Global Data Centers begins building in Hemel Hempstead UK
The company now has two building projects in the UK
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NGD granted planning permission for 180MW campus expansion
The council also provided permission for the installation of 60 emergency generators, 29 car parking spaces, and a security building
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Investment firm, James Hay Partnership's website and phones down after data center outage
The company has repaired the fault and its site and phones are back up and running
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TeleData reports 28 percent growth
A good year for Manchester colo firm
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Amazon to build third Irish wind farm to meet climate pledge
The wind farm will bring the company's renewable power capability in Ireland to around 229MW
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South Dublin County Council approves plans for three data centers in Grange Castle
The developers now have ten years to build the facilities
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HPE signs MoU with UK government for discount cloud solutions
Following a similar deal with IBM back in July
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Vantage's NGD acquisition closes
The buyout was agreed with previous owners InfraVia, back in April
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Simec Atlantis Energy's coal plant/data center conversion split into two phases due to Covid-19
The data center will use fuel pellets made of biomass and non-recyclable plastic
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HPE GreenLake pilot to be hosted out of Interxion's Irish data center
A pilot European program to help clients make the jump to the cloud
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Ireland's CeADAR wins grant for new supercomputer, Leon
The supercomputer will help small enterprises and startups with analytics
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British man jailed for arson on Vodafone 4G mast (that he thought was 5G)
He convinced himself the telephone mast was somehow linked to Covid-19
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Kao Data offers Built-to-Suit service for hyperscale customers on Harlow campus
The colo's data center in Harlow is getting some company
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Interxion cuts cooling costs in London with EkkoSense software
Digital Realty's European subsidiary saves itself some money
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Bouygues to build Virtus' London data center
This follows the announcement of two other data centers back in March