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• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  EMC reportedly mulling over selling up to VMware

  Storage giant is said to be considering a sale to its virtualisation subsidiary, as investor pressure on the company grows

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Gartner warns of IoT threat to corporate data stored in personal clouds

  Market watcher cautions IT managers to beware the risk IoT and virtual personal assistants pose to corporate data stored in 'personal clouds'

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Whitehall devolution threat means IT suppliers "must improve" at selling cloud to local councils

  Public sector IT suppliers must swot up on selling services to local councils, as Whitehall proposes devolving more power to them

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  SME G-Cloud deal volumes could be "under-reported", claim suppliers

  Cabinet Office is reviewing how SMEs report G-Cloud sales data, as reports suggest some are shunning existing online reporting process

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Huawei supplier ecosystem to help financial industry emulate internet giants

  Huawei targets the European finance sector, with a focus on the UK, through an ecosystem of niche IT suppliers

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mark Dixon, Standard Life

  Insurance company Standard Life is looking at new digital projects as work needed to meet regulatory changes is completed

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  HP Cloud 28+ on course to go live in December 2015 with 200 members

  HP's push to create a one-stop-shop for European Union cloud users is on course, claims Europe, Middle-East and Africa vice-president

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Cloud maturity still rare in Nordic organisations

  Nordic companies are early pioneers of cloud computing services, but few are using the technology beyond cost cutting

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Specialist clothing brand Musto deploys Cybertill point of sale system

  Luxury sailing brand Musto signs payments company Cybertill to redesign its point of sale (POS) system for its multichannel operation

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  The obstacles to software-as-a-service adoption in banking

  Security tops the reasons why banks don't use software as a service for banking-specific applications

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  European IaaS adoption set to soar as more IT infrastructure moves off-premise

  The economics of using cloud-based storage and compute makes better financial sense for many enterprises, claims research

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Rackspace brings public cloud managed support to Microsoft Azure

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace strikes a support partnership deal with Microsoft to monitor and control the firm's Azure public cloud service

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

  Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  CipherCloud and CSA lead calls for cloud security open APIs

  The pair have teamed up to create a working group that will guide the industry on how to make the cloud more secure, but in an open way

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  European enterprises deploy one new cloud service a day, research shows

  Skyhigh Networks' European cloud adoption report flags concerns about how much insight IT has into what employees do in the cloud

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Microsoft in the dark after Parliamentary email disrupted for three days

  After a week of investigations, Microsoft has been unable to provide an explanation for failure of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based email service used by Parliament

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Challenger finance firms taunt banks over legacy IT at SAP services conference

  Challenger finance companies presented at a SAP financial services event to inject some urgency into the banking sector

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Choose Digital CTO makes case for "NoOps" software delivery approach

  Allowing developers to create, test and deploy updates alone lets companies take risks and innovate with greater ease, argues Mario Cruz

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Interview: Christina Page explains how Yahoo keeps its datacentres green and clean

  Yahoo's global director for sustainability explains why cloud providers need to get clued up on renewable energy

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Nordic companies drive the future of the smartcar industry

  Nordic companies are pioneering the smartcar industry as businesses and consumers turn to software to improve efficiency and safety

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Dropbox users can now accept files from non-subscribers to the cloud storage platform

  Dropbox File Requests let users collect files from people who aren't signed up to the cloud storage service for the first time

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Greenpeace ranks world's most popular websites on renewable energy use

  Campaign group releases Chrome browser extension that gives web users at-a-glance information on the clean energy habits of internet sites

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Pressure grows on AWS to power more datacentres with green energy

  Public cloud giant is being called on again to be more transparent about its use of renewable energy, this time by Green America

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Iomart builds out hybrid cloud play with £12.5m SystemsUp acquisition

  Hosting company buys public cloud consultancy to capitalise on enterprise appetites for hybrid IT models

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Public cloud emerges as Europe's least popular off-premise IT deployment method

  Easynet research investigating European IT decision-maker buying trends suggests private cloud rules the roost

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Peer demands action over ‘illegal’ Prism programme

  US technology companies are operating illegally by accessing data on UK citizens, Lord Laird tells the House of Lords

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  European Commission calls for cloud data protection law reforms

  The Commission claims fragmented data protection laws area holding up the development of a single digital marketplace in Europe

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  City of Groningen to create smart city infrastructure

  Groningen in the Netherlands signs a memorandum of understanding with Huawei to develop a smart city infrastructure

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Equinix bought TelecityGroup for datacentre connectivity locations, says vice-president Eric Schwarz

  Datacentre operator Equinix admits £2.3bn deal to buy TelecityGroup could spark a flurry of merger and acquisition activity elsewhere in the market

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP updates Helion CloudSystem as hybrid cloud push gathers pace

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to hybrid, open cloud push with updates to Helion CloudSystem software

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  Nordic Startup Awards highlight region's next wave of innovation

  Nordic startups celebrated at annual awards ceremony, but where next for the region's fledgling IT firms?

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

  Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

  Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Telent deploys Unify Circuit to support public sector bid processes

  Managed network services provider Telent deploys Unify’s Circuit unified communications system to manage a growing number of public sector bids

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  CIO interview: Billie Laidlaw, RSPCA

  RSPCA CIO Billie Laidlaw explains how the charity's cloud-first approach to IT procurement benefits the animals in its care

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Salesforce teams up with Google and others to breakdown big data tech barriers

  Cloud CRM giant teams up with Google, Cloudera and Hortonworks to help businesses make better sense of big data

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Google pads out internet of things ecosystem with Brillo

  Google launches Brillo IoT operating system and Weave device communications protocol at Google I/O developer event in San Francisco

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Equinix to acquire datacentre rival TelecityGroup for £2.35bn

  Equinix's bid to acquire rival wins backing of the board, beating Interxion to the crunch

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics

  The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

  Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream

  Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  Vodafone reveals six mobile services to help developing world farmers

  Connected Farming report concludes simple mobile services could boost farm gate incomes by billions of dollars around the world

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  Cloud gives SMEs a competitive edge over the enterprise, claims Salesforce

  The rise of cloud computing means enterprises need to keep a closer eye on their SME competitors, claims Sage and Salesforce.com

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

  Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Societe Generale uses cloud service to place high fliers overseas

  Financial Services company, Societe Generale, says relocation software is helping it to attract talented employees

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Salesforce claims to be on course to become $10bn enterprise software business

  Cloud CRM giant comes out fighting after posting better-than-expected Q1 results

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  CERN and Rackspace use OpenStack clouds to aid global research efforts

  Rackspace and particle research organisation talk up the latest development to emerge from their open-source cloud partnership

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Fledgling bank Euro Pacific moves core system to cloud

  Euro Pacific Bank has moved from multiple proprietary systems for its core banking to cloud-based software from Temenos

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

  IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Leeds Building Society embarks on digital services push with HP Cloud

  The building society wants to make it easier for customers to manage their money online using HP technology and support services

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Gartner warns cloud buyers off hasty IaaS investments

  With the competitive landscape in flux, end users should exercise caution when choosing their IaaS providers, Gartner warns

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

  A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals

  Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Dropbox secures data privacy-focused ISO 27018 standard

  Cloud storage giant hails privacy implications of latest ISO award

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  IT suppliers call on new-look GDS for commitment to G-Cloud's future

  In light of Francis Maude's departure from GDS, G-Cloud suppliers want assurances from the government about what's in store for the framework

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  Dreams beds down with Rackspace to reduce website downtime

  Bed retailer revamps website infrastructure to guard against outages and sleepless nights for its IT team

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  AWS Educate brings cloud to the classroom to address IT skills gap

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to ensure students have the skills they need to make full use of cloud technologies in the workplace

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  UK cloud use is soaring among business users, claims CIF

  CIF talks up UK cloud adoption surge, as Windows Server 2003 end of support deadline looms

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• 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 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Rackspace's share price tumbles amid talk of revenue slump

  Rackspace talks up prospect of supporting users of other firms' cloud services after lacklustre second-quarter guidance causes share price to plummet

• 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 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

  Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years

• 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 06, 2015 06 May'15

  German car makers eyeing Nokia Here mapping service

  Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz said to be planning a bid for Nokia’s Here mapping division to keep the unit in European hands

• 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

  VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud

  EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms