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Data centre
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September 02, 2014
02
Sep'14
Why bare metal cloud is in vogue
Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings
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August 29, 2014
29
Aug'14
Windows Server 2003 EOL: HP seeks to cash in as IBM-Lenovo deal yet to close
As enterprises look to refresh their infrastructure, HP is playing the stability card to win deals as IBM and Dell are mired by uncertainties
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August 26, 2014
26
Aug'14
Datacentre operator Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin resigns
Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin will step down from the helm at the FTSE 250 datacentre provider on 31 October, after 10 years in the role
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August 21, 2014
21
Aug'14
Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project
Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate
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August 15, 2014
15
Aug'14
Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure
Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture
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August 12, 2014
12
Aug'14
Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices
Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs
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August 11, 2014
11
Aug'14
Intel watches ARM as low-powered computing thrives
As the PC market continues to decline, ARM is proving that non-x86 chips have a long and prosperous future
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July 31, 2014
31
Jul'14
Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal
CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal
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July 31, 2014
31
Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre
Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
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July 25, 2014
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Jul'14
AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition
AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?
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July 24, 2014
24
Jul'14
Crew Clothing fashions cloud-based marketing to engage buyers
British luxury casualwear brand Crew Clothing chose cloud marketing to move from batch email marketing to a more timely and personal approach
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July 24, 2014
24
Jul'14
Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY
Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS
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July 21, 2014
21
Jul'14
EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market
Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth
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July 18, 2014
18
Jul'14
BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe
BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
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July 15, 2014
15
Jul'14
Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk
Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe
Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service
Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP
Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild
Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres
Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Datacentre spending shifts to Europe as buyers focus on low-cost servers
Server manufacturers made 20% less in sales in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the fourth quarter of 2013
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
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May 29, 2014
29
May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 23, 2014
23
May'14
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost
A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
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May 19, 2014
19
May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure
From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
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May 09, 2014
09
May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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May 01, 2014
01
May'14
Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer
The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes
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May 01, 2014
01
May'14
British Gas brings central heating control to smartphones with AWS
British Gas used public cloud IT to enable people remotely control their homes’ central heating with smartphone apps and save on utility bills
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin
A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours
Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
HP firmware bricks ProLiant server models
HP has released a server patch which it has admitted will kill 100 of its server models and 14 network adapters.
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug
The Heartbleed bug, an OpenSSL flaw affecting millions of websites, has some lessons for datacentre providers and operators
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April 15, 2014
15
Apr'14
Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency
Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy
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April 15, 2014
15
Apr'14
EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services
The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 07, 2014
07
Apr'14
CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz
Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries
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April 04, 2014
04
Apr'14
RWE signs seven-year network deal with Vodafone to improve efficiency
Utility provider RWE has signed a seven year, multi-million pound contract to run its network, to reduce cost and gain greater efficiency
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March 20, 2014
20
Mar'14
Mine machine data to boost business value
Businesses risk losing their competitive edge if they are unable to drill down into the information captured by machine-generated data
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March 19, 2014
19
Mar'14
Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business
Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Oracle pushes Exadata servers aggressively against IBM PureSystems
IDC’s latest market share data for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has shown that Oracle is beginning to grow its server business
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 14, 2014
14
Mar'14
Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday
On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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March 07, 2014
07
Mar'14
CIOs hold fire over datacentre decisions
When it comes to devising datacentre strategies, are CIOs paralysed like rabbits in the headlights, or playing a calculated game of wait and see?
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February 25, 2014
25
Feb'14
Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era
IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true