Datacentre systems management

Read about datacentre systems management, including configuration and change management, performance monitoring, capacity planning, ITIL and IT governance, and clustering for high availability (HA) and high-performance computing (HPC).

News 03 Jan 2023
Batam datacentre to capture spillover demand from Singapore

NeutraDC’s new datacentre facility in Batam will enable it to meet the spillover demand for datacentre services from neighbouring markets Continue Reading
News 01 Nov 2022
How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search Continue Reading

News 31 Jan 2023

Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022

As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment Continue Reading
News 23 Jan 2023

CIO interview: Ed Higgs, group director of IT shared services, Rentokil Initial

The pest control provider has consolidated 77 datacentres globally to just three – but with a corporate culture of acquisitions, there’s still a lot more to do Continue Reading
News 18 Jan 2023

US hyperscale datacentre operator completes first phase of nuclear-powered server farm campus

US-based Cumulus Data has completed the powered shell infrastructure of its datacentre campus, which will be directly fed nuclear power from a neighbouring plant Continue Reading
News 03 Jan 2023

Batam datacentre to capture spillover demand from Singapore

NeutraDC’s new datacentre facility in Batam will enable it to meet the spillover demand for datacentre services from neighbouring markets Continue Reading
Feature 28 Dec 2022

Why the devil’s still in the detail in the race for energy efficiency

Energy-efficiency credentials are surely a step in the right direction, but cloud and datacentre providers must look at the sustainability equation from all angles Continue Reading
News 19 Dec 2022

Top 10 datacentre stories of 2022

The energy crisis has wreaked havoc on the UK datacentre market in various ways this year, with supply and pricing issues blighting operators and their business interests Continue Reading
News 14 Dec 2022

CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

The vehicle dealership group has been through a complete digital transformation that embraces cloud, mobile working and automation Continue Reading
News 14 Dec 2022

How India is moving towards net zero

Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing Continue Reading
News 30 Nov 2022

AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications Continue Reading
News 08 Nov 2022

VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects Continue Reading
News 08 Nov 2022

Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner Continue Reading
News 01 Nov 2022

How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search Continue Reading
News 25 Oct 2022

AWS to open cloud region in Thailand

Amazon Web Services is planning to launch a Bangkok region, following the debut of CloudFront Edge locations and Outposts in the past two years Continue Reading
Feature 21 Oct 2022

Cloud bursting: Six key steps in planning and decision-making

We explore the key stages in a cloud bursting project: assessing the data and workflows, variants in the mechanism, application suitability, having the right resources, and planning and testing Continue Reading
E-Zine 20 Oct 2022

CW APAC: Trend Watch: Database technology

Innovative data management offerings are improving the efficiency of enterprise operations. In this handbook, focused on database technology in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the impact of graph databases, Neo4j’s partnership with Deloitte, TigerGraph’s added security features and the different types of database management systems currently on the market. Continue Reading
News 18 Oct 2022

Castrol to open datacentre immersion cooling test facility at Berkshire HQ

BP-owned lubricant brand has unveiled the next phase in its work to accelerate adoption of immersion cooling technologies in datacentres Continue Reading
News 17 Oct 2022

GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives Continue Reading
News 17 Oct 2022

Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud

Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe Continue Reading
News 14 Oct 2022

Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones Continue Reading
News 12 Oct 2022

Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'

The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits Continue Reading
Feature 12 Oct 2022

IT sustainability strategies: Why enterprises need to start with the datacentre when going green

Enterprises are under pressure to curb their carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly entities on multiple fronts, including in the datacentre Continue Reading
Feature 29 Sep 2022

What cloud users need to know: Ensuring greater end point engagement for improved cloud delivery

Although early-adopter worries about cloud may have dissipated, the end-user experience can still leave much to be desired Continue Reading
Feature 28 Sep 2022

AIOps for storage: Potential huge benefits, but lots of lock-in

Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to storage can help to predict bottlenecks, diagnose I/O issues and recommend upgrades, but suppliers’ products are largely limited to their own hardware Continue Reading
News 20 Sep 2022

Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting

The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large Continue Reading
News 14 Sep 2022

VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China Continue Reading
News 13 Sep 2022

OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site Continue Reading
E-Zine 09 Sep 2022

CW Europe: Why Russia could become the world’s biggest market for illegal IT

Faced with international sanctions and the departure of many global IT suppliers from Russia, companies there are seeking alternative, and sometimes illegal, routes to access IT products. Also read how new requirements are driving scientists and engineers in Europe back to the lab to start developing 6G technology. Continue Reading
News 05 Sep 2022

VMware doubles down on cloud in ASEAN

Paul Simos, VMware’s managing director and vice-president for Southeast Asia and Korea, dives deeper into the company’s cloud strategy for the region Continue Reading
Feature 05 Sep 2022

How water conservation and management floats on cloud

From the cloud comes our water supply – an essential building block and life support system increasingly underpinned by IT infrastructure Continue Reading
News 31 Aug 2022

VMware and IBM forge closer ties to build industry-specific hybrid cloud services

Tech giants reinforce commitment to working together with pledge to co-develop industry-specific cloud services for regulated enterprises Continue Reading
News 31 Aug 2022

VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand Continue Reading
News 24 Aug 2022

UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites

Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies Continue Reading
News 16 Aug 2022

Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators Continue Reading
E-Zine 16 Aug 2022

Broadband reaches for the stars – the new space race

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the latest space race, as satellite firms compete to provide high-speed connectivity. Is the datacentre sector hindering house building in the UK? We find out what’s really going on. And we talk to the IT director of the Mercedes Formula One team about how data helps to win races. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
Feature 08 Aug 2022

Icelandic datacentres may lead the way to green IT

Iceland may soon become even more attractive to companies wanting to minimise their carbon footprint while using high-performance computing services Continue Reading
News 08 Aug 2022

Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry Continue Reading
News 05 Aug 2022

Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers Continue Reading
News 02 Aug 2022

How worsening economic climate impacts IT spending

As inflation rises, purse strings are tightening at the tech giants, which will have a material impact on chipmakers and providers of IT equipment Continue Reading
News 02 Aug 2022

VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers Continue Reading
News 01 Aug 2022

Microsoft hails success of hydrogen fuel cell trial at its New York datacentre

Microsoft has opened up about how its efforts to replace the diesel backup generators in its datacentres is progressing Continue Reading
News 21 Jul 2022

Singapore to restart datacentre builds with sustainability focus

The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds Continue Reading
News 21 Jul 2022

Four key need-to-knows about CXL

Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads Continue Reading
News 15 Jul 2022

HPE expands private cloud capabilities in GreenLake

HPE’s GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is a managed service that provides flexibility in deployment models with automation capabilities for a cloud-like experience Continue Reading
E-Zine 14 Jul 2022

CW APAC: Buyer’s guide to backup and recovery software

The cyber threat landscape leaves firms with little room for error. In this handbook, focused on backup and recovery software in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at data protection capabilities, how Veeam aims to achieve a market-leading position, Rubrik’s focus on recovery and Kubernetes’s mission to meet the challenges of containerised application environments. Continue Reading
News 08 Jul 2022

How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud Continue Reading
News 08 Jul 2022

Microsoft to roll out grid-interactive UPS tech to its Dublin datacentre

Software giant plans to support Ireland’s transition to a carbon-free energy society by making its datacentre’s backup power sources available for use to the country’s national grid Continue Reading
News 07 Jul 2022

UK-based datacentre cooling firm FEL Group ceases trading

Although its most recent financial report suggested the firm was seeing green shoots of recovery after a business restructure and financing plan, a disagreement on a key contract has resulted in FEL Group going out of business Continue Reading
News 05 Jul 2022

High Court quashes planning permission extension for Apple’s abandoned Irish datacentre build

After securing additional planning permission for the site of its now-abandoned datacentre build last year, Apple has seen the offer withdrawn by the High Court – which may complicate how it sells the land on Continue Reading
News 04 Jul 2022

How Lenovo is making the transition into services

Although Lenovo is late to the as-a-service game, it is making headway through its One Lenovo and services-led transformation strategies, says a top company executive Continue Reading
News 28 Jun 2022

Google Cloud expands availability and scope of IT sustainability tracking tools for enterprises

The Google Cloud Sustainability Summit sees the public cloud giant ramp up its support for enterprises wanting to minimise the environmental impact of their operations Continue Reading
News 27 Jun 2022

Sustainable Norwegian colocation firm Green Mountain expands to the UK with Infinity SDC buyout

Infinity SDC has sold off its Romford facility to Norwegian colocation player, Green Mountain, whose backers claim the move will change the way other UK-based operators approach sustainability Continue Reading
News 24 Jun 2022

Castrol and Submer form partnership to popularise use of immersion cooling in datacentres

BP-owned Castrol has agreed to work with immersion cooling specialist Submer to bring to market next-generation cooling fluids for use in datacentres Continue Reading
News 22 Jun 2022

Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1

Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players Continue Reading
News 22 Jun 2022

Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network configuration update error

Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites inaccessible Continue Reading
News 21 Jun 2022

Vodafone and Oracle Cloud strike multi-year deal to modernise telco’s European infrastructure

Vodafone is expanding the range of cloud providers it works with, as it embarks on a multi-year revamp of the infrastructure underpinning its European operations Continue Reading
Feature 15 Jun 2022

Looking ahead: How to create a multi-year datacentre capacity plan

Datacentres and cloud providers without a crystal ball can make educated guesses on future requirements to right-size resources and infrastructure Continue Reading
News 13 Jun 2022

The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches

A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine Continue Reading
News 10 Jun 2022

Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district Continue Reading
News 09 Jun 2022

Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming

Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability Continue Reading
E-Zine 09 Jun 2022

CW Europe: Russia escalates cyber war on Ukraine

Microsoft has given details of cyber attacks on Ukrainian civilian communications, nuclear safety authorities, and the exploitation of the destruction of Mariupol in a phishing campaign. Also read about a report on the European Artificial Intelligence Act that suggests a limited ban on predictive policing systems. Continue Reading
News 03 Jun 2022

How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses Continue Reading
News 30 May 2022

Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal

VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market Continue Reading
Feature 26 May 2022

Hydrogen’s promise: How fuel cells might power lower-carbon datacentres

Could UK datacentre operators soon adopt emerging hydrogen technologies to reach expanding energy and emissions requirements? Continue Reading
News 26 May 2022

SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility

Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers Continue Reading
E-Zine 20 May 2022

CW APAC: Trend Watch: Datacentres

Firms should keep their data storage setups under frequent review to ensure their goals are being met effectively. In this handbook, focused on datacentres in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the shift towards colocation facilities, the projected change in spending patterns, nuclear power’s potential to reduce carbon emissions and the importance of infrastructure as code in edge datacentres Continue Reading
News 11 May 2022

Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms Continue Reading
News 27 Apr 2022

Datacentres critical to Singapore but sustainability concerns remain

Datacentres create jobs and contribute S$2bn to Singapore’s economy each year, but sustainability issues will need to be addressed to minimise their environmental impact Continue Reading
Feature 22 Apr 2022

Interview: LF Energy on using open source to ready energy systems for phasing out fossil fuels

With the climate crisis putting increasing pressure on countries to decarbonise their economies, the founder of open source championing LF Energy talks about digitising power networks to be ready for renewables Continue Reading
News 20 Apr 2022

Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing Continue Reading
E-Zine 12 Apr 2022

Disney combines digital, data and creativity to win advertising opportunities

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the executive vice-president for client and brand solutions at Disney Advertising Sales about how it is using data to subserve story-telling excellence. We delve into how rising energy costs negatively impacted the UK arm of Sungard Availability Services. And we look at the role of infrastructure as code in edge datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
News 11 Apr 2022

APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint

Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint Continue Reading
News 05 Apr 2022

London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility Continue Reading
E-Zine 05 Apr 2022

Police use of AI needs overhaul to prevent abuse

In this week’s Computer Weekly, a House of Lords inquiry calls for a rethink on how police forces use AI technologies – we examine the issues. Our new buyer’s guide looks into edge datacentres. And the EU and US agree a new data protection deal to replace Privacy Shield, but will it stand up to scrutiny? Read the issue now. Continue Reading
News 05 Apr 2022

HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with Continue Reading
News 04 Apr 2022

Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country Continue Reading
News 01 Apr 2022

Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market

As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry Continue Reading
News 30 Mar 2022

British Airways passengers suffer flight delays due to another IT glitch affecting London Heathrow

Several weeks on from another systems outage that prompted it to cancel hundreds of short-haul flights, British Airways’ IT systems have been hit by another glitch Continue Reading
News 29 Mar 2022

Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration

Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK Continue Reading
News 28 Mar 2022

Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend Continue Reading
News 25 Mar 2022

Telehouse’s takeover of Thomson Reuters Docklands datacentre brings more colo capacity to London

Telehouse has hailed the buildout of its fifth datacentre in the London Docklands area as its most ambitious development to date Continue Reading
News 25 Mar 2022

More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally

The number of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world is set to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, as demand for capacity across the globe continues to soar Continue Reading
News 22 Mar 2022

NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware Continue Reading
Opinion 17 Mar 2022

Monitoring performance in a hybrid cloud world

The growing use of cloud demands a new breed of monitoring and observability tools to keep track of how cloud-native applications and services perform Continue Reading
News 16 Mar 2022

Facebook owner Meta plots Spanish datacentre build to power ‘metaverse’ strategy

Social media giant Meta wants to put Spain at the ‘heart’ of its vision for how the next-generation of the internet will work, with plans to build a datacentre and a remote working hub Continue Reading
Feature 16 Mar 2022

A waste of energy: Dealing with idle servers in the datacentre

Servers can be the slackers of the datacentre, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? Continue Reading
News 10 Mar 2022

Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub

Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden Continue Reading
News 09 Mar 2022

Public sector warned about ‘environmentally unsustainable’ SSD disposal processes

Research from data sanitisation firm Blancco shines a light on the costly and contradictory stance that government IT managers have when it comes to disposing of old solid state drives Continue Reading
News 09 Mar 2022

Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities

Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry Continue Reading
Feature 09 Mar 2022

Datacentres and climate change: Operators accused of being all talk and no action on sustainability

Datacentre operators talk a good fight when it comes to tackling climate change, but there is far more they should and could be doing to make their operations more sustainable, say experts Continue Reading
News 01 Mar 2022

Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion Continue Reading
Feature 25 Feb 2022

Cracking the code on blockchain and crypto: What might adoption mean for datacentres?

A high share of datacentre customers look set to adopt blockchain technologies, including digital currencies, over the next few years Continue Reading
Feature 22 Feb 2022

How to beat the heat: What can datacentre operators do to meet emissions targets?

With new mandates around sustainability proliferating, datacentres must find ways to meet their environmental goals while remaining competitive and meeting customer service-level expectations Continue Reading
News 16 Feb 2022

Interview: How do you define IBM?

It is the world’s oldest computer company, and it was once said you didn’t get fired for buying from Big Blue. But a lot has changed. Sreeram Visvanathan, CEO for UK&I, explains how IBM is reinventing itself Continue Reading
News 16 Feb 2022

Uptime Institute to help financial services organisations reduce infrastructure outage risks

Datacentre resiliency think-tank is launching a programme to help financial services organisations reduce the risk of outages happening within their hybrid infrastructure setups Continue Reading
News 15 Feb 2022

Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming Continue Reading
News 14 Feb 2022

India to invest $1bn in quantum computing

India plans to invest $1bn over the next five years to advance its capabilities in quantum technology, but it will need to have a tailored approach and to address the skills gap to succeed Continue Reading
News 09 Feb 2022

Adoption of smart grid-ready UPS tech by datacentres tipped for take-off in next four years

IT market watcher Omdia claims the next four years could see a sizeable shift in how datacentres interact with the electricity grid as the use of smart grid-enabled UPS tech becomes more widespread Continue Reading
News 07 Feb 2022

Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire Continue Reading
News 24 Jan 2022

Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025 Continue Reading
News 21 Jan 2022

UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline

UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts Continue Reading