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UK data centres exceed energy efficiency target two years early

UK data centres signed up to the Climate Change Agreement have successfully achieved a more than 15% improvement in their power usage effectiveness, meeting...

53% of IT outages reported to be avoidable, as financial impact of downtime increases

Thanks to the highly complex nature of modern IT infrastructure, it’s inevitable that outages will occur. That’s why it’s important that steps are taken...

European enterprises spend £8.8M a year on unused cloud services

European enterprises are spending £29.48 million on cloud services, and 42% say the cloud has been critical to digital innovation initiatives in the last...

Six Degrees expands its public sector cloud offering to the Scottish Government

Six Degrees has been providing the UK government with cloud services for a number of years, with the company deeply embedded into numerous government...

Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans for unplanned power outages

Aggreko, a major supplier of temporary power generation equipment, is urging data centres to assess their contingency plans to see whether they could weather...

74% of UK consumers concerned about sharing personal data, as calls for data transparency grow

A new global study from ESOMAR and HERE Technologies, along with research partners BuzzBack Research, and Cint, has revealed that 74% of UK consumers...

Despite record funding, UK business lack required data infrastructure for AI

According to a new study into AI usage across enterprises, most businesses are well underway with AI experimentation. Despite this, many still lack an...

Right to be forgotten doesn’t extend beyond EU borders, ECJ rules

Google has won a landmark legal case which defines the limits of the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’. The ruling made by the European...

Nearly 1000 redundant IT parts given new lease of life as a bike

Techbuyer is doing something different this month to highlight the value of redundant IT parts. While the company is typically associated with refurbishing old...

Complexity of cloud computing costing CIOs time and money

An independent survey of 800 CIOs found that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to manage their IT infrastructure, as the complexity of the enterprise cloud...

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