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• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  European education network launches search for IaaS providers

  Pan-European education network is on the hunt for IaaS specialists to populate its Cloud Catalogue

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Fujitsu embarks on 10-year datacentre upgrade project in Australia

  IT services giant embarks on push to improve the reliability and performance of its Australian datacentres by 2025

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  EMC: Rise of third platform could spell end for businesses unwilling to adapt

  EMC World 2015 saw the storage giant warn about the business risks of ignoring new technologies and ways of working in the digital age

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  CIO interview: Mikael Ludvigsen, DLG Group

  It is not an easy job to be the CIO of DLG Group, the ninth largest company in Denmark and the second largest agricultural firm in Europe

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Equinix gatecrashes Interxion takeover by making play for TelecityGroup

  Doubts cast over Interxion takeover, after Equinix disrupts merger talks by making separate play for TelecityGroup

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth

  Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  Cloud collaboration company Box expands datacentre footprint outside US

  Cloud collaboration provider Box is set to build datacentres outside the US to expand the firm's global operations over the next 12 to 18 months

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, vice-president of information systems at Reckitt Benckiser

  Seven months after taking charge of IT at Reckitt Benckiser, Darrell Stein is pushing ahead with a strategy to increase digital revenues

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  EMC uses big data to drive motorcycle racing safety improvements

  Storage giant has embarked on a big data project with Isle of Man TT race winner John McGuinness to improve track safety levels

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Something disgusting at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

  Kevin Cahill explains why he has filed a case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal over US intelligence gathering on children.

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Alcatel-Lucent to target enterprise UC market

  Alcatel-Lucent signs collaboration agreement with OTT unified comms firm Counterpath to target enterprise and operator customers

• May 04, 2015 04 May'15

  Atlantic.Net unveils New York datacentre and sets out UK expansion plans

  SSD-based cloud hosting firm opens datacentre, while setting out its UK expansion plans

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  Public sector IT suppliers call on government to extend G-Cloud 5

  After the Crown Commercial Service said G-Cloud 5 would not close on 22 May, public sector IT suppliers ask government to extend it even further

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  OpenStack engineer shortage drives up private cloud TCO, finds 451 Research

  OpenStack costs less to deploy than Microsoft, VMware or Red Hat private cloud, but engineering shortages drive up its total cost of ownership (TCO)

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Salesforce takeover rumours: Oracle hailed as most likely suitor

  Oracle, Microsoft and IBM emerge as the ones to watch as speculation builds about who will buy cloud-based CRM company Salesforce.com

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Bravissimo calls on Nutanix support for move to virtual servers

  High street lingerie retailer opts for Nutanix's converged infrastructure platform to support its server consolidation work

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Vision Solutions debuts tool to ease Microsoft Azure cloud migrations

  AWS and VMware cloud users get a helping hand from Vision Solutions when moving apps and workloads to Microsoft Azure

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Deutsche Bank to spend €1bn to go digital

  Deutsche Bank is spending up to €1bn on digital technology over the next three to five years following the modernisation of its core banking platform

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  Cost cutting still draining IT outsourcing budgets against CIO wishes

  More than half of IT directors believe that money spent with IT outsourcing suppliers is focused on cost cutting, research reveals

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  Datacentre investments needed for IoT to fulfil its potential, warns IDC

  IDC warns the IoT could fail to reach its full potential unless datacentre capacity issues are addressed

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  AWS cloud operation bigger than Google, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce combined

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the leader in the cloud infrastructure services market, but competitors are carving out their own niches

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Accenture and Oracle embark on enterprise cloud adoption push

  Accenture and Oracle are embarking on a joint push to make it easier for public sector and financial services firms to move to cloud

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Data security remains top concern for public sector cloud procurement, says Socitm

  Data security is still a concern for public sector organisations planning cloud services, says the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm)

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn

  Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Kao Beauty deploys enterprise sales system to mobile employees

  Salon products distributor chooses Mendix to build enterprise sales system to distribute to mobile employees via iPads

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  IBM opens second SoftLayer datacentre in the Netherlands

  Big Blue seeks to capitalise on growing interest in public cloud services by opening another European datacentre

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Cloud infrastructure spend set to hit $52bn in 2019

  IDC shares five-year view of how it expects worldwide spending on both private and public cloud infrastructure to grow

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  Huawei calls for global consensus on the future network

  At its Global Analyst Summit, Huawei calls on the networking industry to collaborate to optimise the network for future demands

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Cloud hardware investments now account for 30% of all IT spend

  IDC infrastructure tracker shows spending on cloud-enabling server, storage and Ethernet technologies is on the rise

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  ISG blames UK general election for fall in outsourcing value

  A lull in UK outsourcing activity in the run-up to the election caused a 25% drop in spending across the Emea region in Q1 2015, claims ISG

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Alternative financing platform C2FO gathers pace

  A platform enabling suppliers to bid to receive payment for their invoices early has set itself an ambitious target following acceleration in demand

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands

  Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions

  Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  IBM to share security intelligence on X-Force Exchange platform

  IBM says it will make its library of security intelligence data available to all on a new platform called X-Force Exchange

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  AWS pours scorn on enterprise appeal of hybrid cloud model

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels denies that moving to a hybrid IT model is the right fit for the enterprise

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  AWS beats Rackspace and Microsoft in 451 Research's top IaaS provider poll

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) tops 451 Research’s poll of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) suppliers, based on how they meets customers' needs

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  HP's Bill Hilf hits back at public cloud exit reports

  Several days after first denying its exit from the public cloud market, HP issues a blog post to put paid to the speculation for good

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Cloud hype leads to enterprise dissatisfaction with off-premise services

  NTT Communications' latest cloud report suggests enterprise decision-makers find the technology failing to live up to the hype

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Rio Tinto to put IT systems in the cloud

  Mining giant Rio Tinto is moving IT systems into the public cloud as part of a transformation agreement with Accenture

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Minor parties react to public concern over mass surveillance: Labour and Tories silent

  Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP and the Green Party support tighter controls on government surveillance after Snowden's revelations

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  Nordic businesses continue to look to Ukraine for IT

  Despite the conflicts affecting the eastern half of the country, Ukraine is enjoying growth in IT outsourcing from customers in Nordic countries

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  US Army moves logistics processing to IBM hybrid cloud

  IBM follows up $60m US Army IT contract by helping the organisation to tap into hybrid cloud's benefits

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Nano Server: Microsoft debuts simpler Windows Server for the cloud era

  Microsoft finally confirms details about Nano Server, its stripped back Windows Server operating system designed specifically for cloud apps

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Indian outsourcing is booming in the Nordic countries

  Headlines about Indian IT service providers securing high-profile outsourcing deals in the Nordics have become commonplace

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise

  The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HP rebuffs public cloud market exit reports

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to public cloud, but analysts claim it needs to be clearer about its off-premise strategy

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Oracle Retail expands cloud services portfolio in wake of Micros buy

  Oracle introduces six cloud services to help retailers get to grips with loss prevention, customer engagement and inventory management

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  UK law firm McMillan Williams moves to Interxion datacentre to support growth

  UK law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors taps up co-location provider Interxion to support plans to expand its number of high street branches