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Converged infrastructure

• November 07, 2017 07 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 ...

• 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

• 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

• June 27, 2017 27 Jun'17

  French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

  High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• May 24, 2017 24 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• May 18, 2016 18 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

• 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

• April 29, 2016 29 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

• February 17, 2016 17 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  HDS joins the software-defined infrastructure pack

  HDS move into software-defined infrastructure space with new portfolio

• 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

• March 30, 2015 30 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

• October 22, 2014 22 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

• October 17, 2014 17 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

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation

  Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?

• 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

• 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

• 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

• October 21, 2013 21 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

• September 17, 2013 17 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

• September 13, 2013 13 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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.

• 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

• 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 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

• December 01, 2010 01 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• June 22, 2010 22 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.

• May 25, 2010 25 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.

• February 26, 2010 26 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.

• January 21, 2010 21 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.

• September 15, 2008 15 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.

• April 26, 2007 26 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.

• April 19, 2007 19 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.

• December 12, 2005 12 Dec'05

  Recent contracts awarded December 2005

  Recent contracts awarded

• August 29, 2001 29 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...