Charlie Osborne

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Charlie Osborne is a cybersecurity journalist and photographer who writes for ZDNet and CNET from London. PGP Key: AF40821B

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Latest from Charlie Osborne

Does China's route to infrastructure control run through Iceland's data centers?

Huawei investors or spies? When Chinese delegations arrive at your door, there must be a reason.

June 4, 2019 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

How a loud noise brought a data center to its knees

A data center's operations completely collapsed as a rare phenomenon cut off service for 10 hours.

September 12, 2016 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

Alibaba opens data center in Silicon Valley, eyes US cloud market

Alibaba is expanding its cloud computing services in the US, and the firm's first expansion overseas will be to Silicon Valley.

March 4, 2015 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

Salesforce opens first European data centre in the UK

Salesforce has opened its first European data center in the United Kindom, one of three new establishments planned over the next year.

October 31, 2014 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

A tour of Iceland's data centers

Data centers provide the backbone for many tech services we take for granted, but what goes on behind those doors -- and why might firms including Apple and Google be interested in moving over?

October 15, 2014 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

Lenovo, VMware partner to provide data center solutions

Lenovo and VMware plan to collaborate to develop software-defined data center solutions.

October 14, 2014 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers

Is mobile technology forcing data center complexity?

Symantec's 2012 State of the Data Center survey suggests that mobile computing, the cloud and vitualization are driving increasingly complex data centers.

September 17, 2012 by Charlie Osborne in Data Centers