French IT services firm Bull has bagged a contract with South Lanarkshire Council to manage its IT infrastructure and datacentres.
The Cabinet Office and the Government Digital Service (GDS) are on the hunt for a private sector partner to take a stake in a new data hosting company.
St Andrews University has claimed its award-winning data centre has boosted IT staff morale as well as delivering £65,000 of savings to the institution.
An existing datacentre in the London Docklands area is being expanded in a project set to cost £135m.
The government has launched a new joint business venture with SME Ark Data Centres to host government computer servers.
Kent County Council has opted for load-balancing equipment to support its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project.
UK cloud hosting SME Memset has launched a government accredited datacentre facility featuring the PSN-Protected level of security, the highest level of security for the Public Services Network (PSN).
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is implementing a new datacentre solution with the intention of creating energy cost savings to benefit the taxpayer.
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has begun work on refreshing its datacentre, aiming to enable a hybrid IT cloud approach, provide high-availability services to student and hit environmental targets.
Robert Bath, VP Global Solutions and Tom Kingham, Director Sales Engineering, EMEA at Digital Realty, lays out some options.
The public cloud services market will rise in 2016 and is expected to grow its worth to $204 billion (£142bn), up from $175bn (£122bn) in 2015, Gartner has reported.
Metro, the firm responsible for the co-ordination of public transport across West Yorkshire, has announced it is searching for a partner to provide a staffed and supported data centre solution.
Cloud computing services provider Salesforce.com has announced plans to open three European data centres in a move that will create 500 new jobs.
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