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Converged infrastructure
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November 07, 2017
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Nov'17
OpenStack flags edge computing as ‘surprise’ emerging use case for open source cloud tech
OpenStack Foundation executive director, Jonathan Bryce, admits to being caught on the back-foot by the growing number of enterprises using its software to build edge computing environments
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October 24, 2017
24
Oct'17
IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world
As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own
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October 20, 2017
20
Oct'17
HPE bets on hybrid IT to combat public cloud
HPE is re-engineering its business to focus on hybrid clouds powered by its recent ProLiant Azure Stack server. We assess the strategy
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October 19, 2017
19
Oct'17
Lack of transparency obscures public cloud costs
IT administrators admit they are not making the most of their cloud storage and computing resources. Costs can escalate quickly if virtual machines are not managed properly
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October 18, 2017
18
Oct'17
Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing
Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void
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October 17, 2017
17
Oct'17
Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged
Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure. Secondary storage and backup from Cohesity replaces tape and supports Nutanix performance tier
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October 12, 2017
12
Oct'17
Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs
European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines
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October 10, 2017
10
Oct'17
Sweden wins blockchain datacentre investment
Sweden attracts more datacentre investment with a blockchain company selecting the country for its next datacentre
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October 06, 2017
06
Oct'17
Brother moves core internal applications to Amazon cloud
Manufacturer Brother has moved its back-office and customer-facing systems to the Amazon cloud using public and hybrid models
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September 21, 2017
21
Sep'17
Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays
Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry
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September 21, 2017
21
Sep'17
Cern calls on industry to collaborate on its datacentre challenges
Particle accelerator lab has set out a plan, inviting the industry to help it develop next-generation IT to support science
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September 14, 2017
14
Sep'17
Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report
New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff
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September 12, 2017
12
Sep'17
University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat
The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs
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September 12, 2017
12
Sep'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona
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September 07, 2017
07
Sep'17
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub
Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
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August 22, 2017
22
Aug'17
Cisco buys hyperconvergence software supplier
Cisco’s transformation into a software-led networking business continues with the purchase of Springpath, a developer of hyperconvergence software
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August 18, 2017
18
Aug'17
Best of VMworld 2017 Awards nominations now open until 31 August
Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination
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August 17, 2017
17
Aug'17
World's largest’ data center planned in Norway
Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources
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July 24, 2017
24
Jul'17
What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?
Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud
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July 13, 2017
13
Jul'17
The dawn of a new era for Dell EMC
Dell EMC’s Paul Henaghan is no stranger to industry consolidation, having worked for tech companies that were acquired by Oracle and Software AG. Here, the president of Dell EMC in South Asia and Korea shares what it is doing to streamline its ...
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July 03, 2017
03
Jul'17
Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours
Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations
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June 28, 2017
28
Jun'17
Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud
Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud
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June 27, 2017
27
Jun'17
French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres
High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation
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June 26, 2017
26
Jun'17
Dubai-based logistics company automates backup through cloud
Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML
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June 22, 2017
22
Jun'17
Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure
Infrastructure bundles OS, hypervisor and storage software components from the open source distributor and is aimed at SMEs and remote office use cases
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June 07, 2017
07
Jun'17
Dell EMC grows as HPE loses ground to white box server providers
The latest Gartner server market share figures show that Dell has gained ground following the acquisition of EMC
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June 07, 2017
07
Jun'17
HPE Discover: Hybrid IT will dominate, in-memory computing to rise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise declared a positive hybrid on-premise and cloud future for IT at its Discover 2017 conference in Las Vegas, while heralding in-memory computing as new vista
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June 06, 2017
06
Jun'17
Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal
About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement
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June 05, 2017
05
Jun'17
NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances
NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017
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May 25, 2017
25
May'17
Open19: LinkedIn's bid to lower barriers to open source datacentre tech adoption gathers pace
The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace
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May 24, 2017
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May'17
Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes
Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups
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May 11, 2017
11
May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience
The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
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May 10, 2017
10
May'17
Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance
The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows
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May 09, 2017
09
May'17
OpenStack Foundation hails second coming of private cloud
Enterprises have come to view private cloud as a “toxic” phrase, but new ways and means of building deployments is changing that, according to the OpenStack Foundation and its stakeholders
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May 08, 2017
08
May'17
HPE ramps up investments in Singapore
Enterprise tech giant HPE will invest $140m over five years in its new regional headquarters and a startup incubator programme
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April 28, 2017
28
Apr'17
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
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April 26, 2017
26
Apr'17
Dutch manufacturer turns to SDN to save 30% on network costs
Huisman, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of heavy construction equipment, has chosen Masergy to supply a hybrid WAN and SDN platform to connect multiple global locations
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April 25, 2017
25
Apr'17
Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS
Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage
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April 12, 2017
12
Apr'17
Growth of hyperscale operators risks squeezing smaller players out of cloud, research warns
As the hold of the hyperscale datacentre operators on the wider cloud market tightens, Synergy Research Group looks at the impact their influence is having on the wider IT market
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April 11, 2017
11
Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies
The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
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April 04, 2017
04
Apr'17
Open Networking Summit expands collaboration around SDN and NFV
Standards bodies, suppliers, telecoms operators and academics gather in California for the annual SDN and NFV Open Networking Summit
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February 15, 2017
15
Feb'17
Enterprise IT buyers shed light on server makers’ shortfalls in customer service and support
451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report sees IT buyers rate server and converged infrastructure makers on their approach to customer service and support
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November 23, 2016
23
Nov'16
HPE focuses on hybrid IT and IoT as revenue drops
CEO Meg Whitman continues on her quest to refocus Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the company posts its fourth-quarter results
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November 23, 2016
23
Nov'16
Budget busters: Three ways for CIOs to fund digital initiatives
The business wants IT to innovate, but CIOs find their budgets are frozen. Who you gonna call?
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September 08, 2016
08
Sep'16
HPE makes further divestments with Micro Focus tie-up to target software-defined market
British software company Micro Focus becomes an enterprise software powerhouse as HPE offloads enterprise software infrastructure products
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May 18, 2016
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May'16
Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia
The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected
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May 05, 2016
05
May'16
Hyper-converged systems to hit mainstream datacentre adoption within five years
Market watcher Gartner predicts the hyper-converged market will be worth $5bn by 2019 as integrated systems become a staple of mainstream datacentre environments
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April 29, 2016
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Apr'16
Virtual desktop infrastructure set for Middle East enterprise growth
More and more IT leaders in the Middle East are considering adopting virtual desktop infrastructures, but user cases are needed to speed things up
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February 17, 2016
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Feb'16
Renault Sport Formula 1 considers deploying VCE VxRail for trackside data analytics
The Renault Sport Formula 1 team explains why it is considering a refresh of its trackside converged infrastructure setup
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October 15, 2015
15
Oct'15
Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows
A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates
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October 12, 2015
12
Oct'15
Dell set to buy storage company EMC
Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC
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September 16, 2015
16
Sep'15
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute supports bio startups on Nutanix
Converged infrastructure is helping Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's IT team to provide scalable servers and storage for its Campus Business project
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June 09, 2015
09
Jun'15
Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware
Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments
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June 01, 2015
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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
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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
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April 30, 2015
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Apr'15
HDS joins the software-defined infrastructure pack
HDS move into software-defined infrastructure space with new portfolio
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April 29, 2015
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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
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March 30, 2015
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Mar'15
Fitness First slashes datacentre hosting costs with Nutanix
Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to converged infrastructure based on Nutanix hardware hosted at Telecity
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October 22, 2014
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Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 17, 2014
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Oct'14
Ahli United Bank boosts IT availability and resiliency with HP ConvergedSystem 300
Ahli United Bank refreshes datacentre infrastructure with HP converged systems to simplify its virtualisation estate
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October 16, 2014
16
Oct'14
VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation
Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Survey: Storage budgets shrink while capacity balloons
451 Research survey finds storage budgets shrink while data volumes increase, as flash use becomes commonplace
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June 25, 2014
25
Jun'14
Oracle develops private cloud engineered system
Oracle is going head to head with HP, IBM and Cisco with the introduction of a converged infrastructure appliance
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul
The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks
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October 21, 2013
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Oct'13
Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy
Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015
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September 17, 2013
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Sep'13
VCE launches datacentre, cloud products as converged infrastructure spend grows
VCE, the joint venture company formed by Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel has launched new variations of its converged cloud suite Vblock as CI market soars
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September 13, 2013
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Sep'13
After virtualising IT estate, Jaguar Land Rover now eyes cloud computing
Jaguar Land Rover's IT team takes its newly virtualised infrastructure to the next stage of IT evolution by adopting cloud-based services
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August 07, 2013
07
Aug'13
Luton and Dunstable Hospital finds IT efficiency with converged infrastructure
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has integrated IT into clinical workflows with converged infrastructure
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June 10, 2013
10
Jun'13
Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?
Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?
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June 05, 2013
05
Jun'13
Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure
Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.
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February 26, 2013
26
Feb'13
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components
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January 31, 2013
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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
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January 17, 2013
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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
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December 01, 2010
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Dec'10
Converged infrastructure from Gartner’s perspective
No matter however complicated it may seem, converged infrastructure cannot be ignored. Gartner sheds light on this emerging trend in the Indian market.
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October 20, 2010
20
Oct'10
HP unveils converged infrastructure training and certification programme
HP has introduced a converged infrastructure training and certification programme called ExpertONE; plus more daily news.
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October 06, 2010
06
Oct'10
Apple buys prospective data centre land from elderly couple for $1.7 million
Apple has reportedly splashed out $1.7 million to acquire one acre of the 225-acre strip of land that will eventually contain its North Carolina data centre; plus more daily news.
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June 22, 2010
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Jun'10
HP adds G7 ProLiant servers to BladeSystem lineup
Hewlett-Packard's updates to its BladeSystem Matrix will boost memory and performance by adding G7 ProLiant servers; plus more daily news.
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May 25, 2010
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May'10
Sify-HP cloud computing: Pricing details and more
New on-demand cloud services from Sify uses HP's converged infrastructure. Here's a look at how much Sify and HP cloud computing services will cost you.
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February 26, 2010
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Feb'10
VMware acquires products from EMC's Ionix IT management business: News Roundup
VMware acquires products from EMC's Ionix; bare metal hypervisor for Apple and new cloud vision from Parallels; and other news of the week.
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January 21, 2010
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Jan'10
Book Extract: Fixed mobile convergence technology fundamentals
Fixed mobile convergence (FMC) systems based on VoIP service build on convergence technology fundamentals to enable fully converged IP communications. This chapter will review FMC systems technology and discuss real-life deployments.
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September 15, 2008
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Sep'08
10 Gigabit Ethernet sparks up the switching market
Switching is being shaken up by the emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and other new networking technologies.
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April 26, 2007
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Apr'07
SAN/LAN/WAN convergence Day Four: Wrapping it all up
In the last part of our feature on network convergence, Ian Yates explains tiered networks and more.
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April 19, 2007
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Apr'07
Securing Communications Day Three - What the vendors say
How does VoIP get hacked? And how can you prevent it? Read on to learn this and more in part two of our feature on securing communications.
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December 12, 2005
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Dec'05
Recent contracts awarded December 2005
Recent contracts awarded
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August 29, 2001
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Aug'01
Cisco defies economic downturn
Despite the doom and gloom affecting the IT market, Cisco is continuing to release new products and has restarted its aggressive...