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Clustering for high availability and HPC

January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13
SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system
January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13
Menzies Aviation replaces VMware with Windows Server 2012

Menzies Aviation has become one of the first UK companies to install and use Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0 in production
January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13
Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud
January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13
Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13
Dell's OpenStack-based public cloud to go live in Q4

Dell’s Openstack-based public cloud, which is in beta-testing, will be made generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013
January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13
Nasdaq OMX picks Slough datacentre to host NLX platform

US stock exchange Nasdaq has picked Equinix’s Slough datacentre campus to host its London-based trading platform NLX
January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13
UK lags behind US in cloud adoption

Research from Vanson Bourne highlights the differences in attitude towards cloud computing between enterprises in the UK and the US
January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13
National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud
January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13
EESC puts forward alternative EU cloud strategy

The European Commission’s cloud strategy falls short, says EU consultative body as it puts forward an alternative
January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13
Brighton hospital bucks trend by moving from shared services to in-house IT

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust moves to an in-house, converged infrastructure for agility and cost savings

January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13
Global energy management software market to grow in 2013, say analysts

Businesses are increasing investment in energy management software to improve IT efficiency, says Verdantix
December 20, 2012 20 Dec'12
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2012

2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream. Cloud services were widely adopted and suppliers competed with aggressive pricing
December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12
Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds
December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12
Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge uses datacentre tools to improve efficiency

Microsoft Research Cambridge used datacentre planning and management tools to improve efficiency and support the researchers
December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12
Competing standards could damage cloud industry, warns APM group

Standards are crucial to maturing cloud services but too many could damage the industry, says certification body the APM Group
December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12
Microsoft undercuts Google, AWS in cloud storage price drop

Just days after Google and Amazon Web Services dropped their cloud storage prices, Microsoft has announced a steeper cut
December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12
Case study: CERN adopts OpenStack private cloud to solve big data challenges

CERN is using OpenStack private cloud to overcome IT inefficiency and big data challenges
December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12
Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...
December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12
More security, high-availability and gov-cloud are on AWS users’ wish list

Better security, ease of use, added availability as well as G-cloud features could make AWS cloud more appealing
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
Guardian publisher uses Amazon EC2 to power iPhone app content

Publisher Guardian News & Media uses AWS for cloud-based infrastructure to scale content provision on smartphones and tablets
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
AWS re:Invent: Amazon launches data warehouse service Redshift and cuts S3 prices

At its first ever user conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched data warehousing cloud service Redshift and slashed S3 prices
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
Private cloud does not bring full benefits of cloud computing, says AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior vice-president Andy Jassy slams private cloud suppliers for failing to deliver the benefits of cloud computing
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
Orange Digital and EE adopt cloud to save £2m in hosting costs

Orange Digital and EE adopted AWS cloud not just for high scalability but also to cut infrastructure hosting costs by £2m in three years
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
£60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham

A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights
November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12
UK rail ticketing services get next-generation facelift with AWS cloud

Rail Settlement Plan, the supplier for IT and retail services to UK rail operators, is using AWS cloud to build next-generation ticketing systems
November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12
Dublin Airport Authority uses virtualisation to overhaul IT

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has launched an IT overhaul project with HP converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform
November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12
Global taskforce for datacentre energy efficiency pick three new metrics

In addition to PUE, datacentre operators have three new metrics – Green Energy Coefficient (GEC), Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)
November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12
Icann picks Dundee datacentre to host first Scottish root server

Icann is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid
November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12
CIOs distrust public cloud for mission-critical work, says IDC

IT executives are still not confident about running mission-critical workloads on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC
November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12
NetApp nips and tucks FAS3200 clustered NAS unified storage range

NetApp refreshes FAS3200 series unified storage arrays with changed drive capacities, plus clustered NAS and Flash Cache and Flash Pools
November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12
Tape is not a dead storage concept, but needs reinventing

Despite advances in storage technology such as hard disks, data de-duplication and cloud-based storage, tape is not dead, say experts
October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12
German manufacturer Sigel boosts efficiency with storage hypervisor

German manufacturer Sigel used storage hypervisor technology to improve the efficiency of its virtual servers and Oracle database systems
October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12
Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco

Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, forecasts Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index
October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12
How Sega used hybrid cloud to beat the Christmas sales spike

A combination of private and public cloud helped Sega hasten its games-testing process as well as bring agility, security and scalability to its IT
October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12
VMworld Europe 2012: Key highlights and technology takeaways

VMworld Europe 2012 focused on software defined datacentres, cloud automation, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and building new IT skills
September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12
Facebook engineer builds heatmap tool for datacentre troubleshooting

A Facebook engineer has built a server-monitoring tool using heatmaps to assess the status of cache systems and fix datacentre problems
September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12
Changing virtualisation management strategy yields results for LSE

LSE had all the principles of a good IT strategy -- data centre consolidation and virtualisation. But without the correct virtualisation management tool, the project was doomed.
July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12
Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity

A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency.
September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10
HP and Oracle settle legal spat over Hurd hiring

HP and Oracle have agreed to settle their legal spat over the hiring of Mark Hurd; plus more daily news.
February 19, 2010 19 Feb'10
RES Software offers VDI management suite: News Roundup

RES Software launches suite of management features to aid virtual desktop deployments; Veeam backup and replication increases speed of virtual servers at The Pensions Trust; Overland Storage launches iSCSI SAN with hooks into VMware and Hyper-V; and...
December 10, 2009 10 Dec'09
VMware software on smartphones: News roundup

VMware software on smartphones; new intelligent workload roadmap for Novell; and other news of the week.