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• May 22, 2012 22 May'12

  Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude

  EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies

• May 01, 2012 01 May'12

  Open Data Center Alliance focuses on big data collaboration

  The Open Data Center Alliance, a group of 12 major IT users, is collaborating with industry on big data architectures

• April 27, 2012 27 Apr'12

  Amazon results demonstrate commitment to cloud

  Amazon's AWS cloud business made $500m in sales in the first quarter of 2012, comprising 3.79% of Amazon's Q1 business

• April 19, 2012 19 Apr'12

  Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade

  Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list.

• April 04, 2012 04 Apr'12

  Microsoft improves virtual desktops but drops inventory software

  Microsoft is expanding its desktop virtualisation product family with software that retains user preferences as they switch between devices

• March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12

  EDF signs £100m datacentre deal with Atos

  Energy company EDF has signed a £100m 10-year deal with outsourcing provider Atos for datacentre services

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3

  Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3

• February 20, 2012 20 Feb'12

  Podcast interview: Stephen Glen, WorkIT on hosting and private clouds

  Stephen Glen, software architecture engineer at retail intelligence firm WorkIT, discusses hosting and cloud computing.

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  Case study: Cogenta migrates to Claranet VDC

  Cogenta is among the first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which launched last month.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers

  Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.

• October 06, 2011 06 Oct'11

  Technology industry figures pay tribute to Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs

  Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the ...

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  GPU cracks six-character password in four seconds

  A £30 nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres

  Power shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Security firm selects Fujitsu IT services

  Security company G4S has outsourced its IT infrastructure and services to Fujitsu and has agreed a £32.9m seven-year contract.

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Amazon launches Kindle Fire tablet but experts doubt its use as a business device

  Amazon has confirmed its much-anticipated entry into the tablet market with the US launch of its Kindle Fire device - but analysts doubt it will appeal to corporate IT buyers.

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Microsoft starts roll-out of Mango update for Windows Phone 7

  Microsoft has started rolling out the next major version of its Windows Phone 7 operating system, codenamed Mango.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Boots launches mobile site to expand multichannel offering

  Retailer Boots has launched a mobile version of its website to expand its multichannel portfolio.

• September 22, 2011 22 Sep'11

  Government pulls plug on ailing £11bn NHS IT programme

  The troubled £11bn NHS National Programme for IT is to be axed, the government is expected to announce later today.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  HP webOS lay-offs could affect European employees

  Hewlett-Packard could lay off European employees as part of the company's decision to discontinue its webOS hardware division, including the Touchpad tablet range.

• September 20, 2011 20 Sep'11

  Gartner: Keep encryption simple and standardised to cut cost and complexity

  Businesses should consider self-encrypting drives (SEDs) for new installations that hold significant volumes of sensitive data, says Gartner.

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Sabre develops apps marketplace for travel industry

  Sabre, the global distribution system for reserving hotels, airlines, cruise ships, rail tickets and car hire, has taken the concept of the app store and applied in to its own travel market.

• September 12, 2011 12 Sep'11

  HP refunds Touchpad owners

  Anyone who purchased an HP Touchpad prior to the price crash can now obtain a refund. Users who purchased the 16Gb version will be eligible for a refund...

• September 09, 2011 09 Sep'11

  RBS and Natwest launch native Blackberry app for bank transfers

  The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Natwest have launched a mobile application to allow Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry device users to transfer funds between bank accounts.

• August 24, 2011 24 Aug'11

  Nokia launches three smartphones running Symbian Belle operating system

  Nokia has unveiled three smartphone devices running its new operating system, Symbian Belle.

• August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11

  Technology retailers slash Touchpad tablet prices in bid to empty HP inventory

  Best Buy in the US is reportedly selling the HP Touchpad for just $99 as the retailer gets rid of its inventory of the soon-to-be-defunct tablet.

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC

  The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

• August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11

  Blackberry to co-operate with police after youths used BBM to organise riots

  Research in Motion has said that it will co-operate with the police after it was revealed that London rioters used Blackberry Messenger rather than Twitter to organise looting sprees across the capital, with violence later spreading to Birmingham, ...

• August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11

  Case Study: Data encryption at the Salvation Army

  The Salvation Army in the UK supports flexible working from home using laptops owned by the charity, but says finding a good way of protecting data was a challenge.

• August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11

  Amazon closes Android appstore submissions in Germany after Apple lawsuit

  Amazon has closed submissions for its Android app store in Germany following a lawsuit from Apple.

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia as worldwide smartphone shipments grow 76%

  Nokia's woes continue as Apple and Samsung overtake the Finnish giant to become the largest global smartphone manufacturers, according to analyst figures.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  KLM deploys RightNow natural language search for mobile website

  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service provider RightNow's CX Intent Guide on its mobile website.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Automated web application attacks are the top security threat, study reveals

  Websites are attacked about 27 times an hour or once every two minutes on average, peaking at 25,000 attacks a minute or seven a second, according to research...

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  IDC blames decline in European PC market on weak consumer demand and high inventories

  The west European PC market declined 8.9% compared with the same quarter the year before. A shift in interest and budget towards other products contributed to weak consumer demand and slow stock depletion across Western Europe, according to analyst ...

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Nokia reports £429m loss as smartphone revenues drop 32% in first half of 2011

  Nokia has reported operating losses of €487m (£429m) in the first half of 2011, fuelled by a decline in smartphone sales.

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  Betfair sees 120% increase in mobile customers

  The online gambling firm increased sales via mobile applications by 88% as customer mobile use grows.

• June 27, 2011 27 Jun'11

  Unite members at Fujitsu’s Crewe site to strike

  Members of the Unite union at Fujitsu's site in Crewe have voted to take strike action over the alleged unfair treatment of a trade union activist.

• June 24, 2011 24 Jun'11

  Oracle Q4 revenues climb 36% but decline in hardware sales drops share price 7.5%

  Oracle's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 36% to $3.2bn and total revenues were up 13% to $10.8bn. But a decline in hardware sales and a forecast of only 10% to 20% growth in licence sales sent Oracle shares down by as much as 7.5% in late ...

• June 22, 2011 22 Jun'11

  European Commission gives green light to CSC acquisition of beleaguered iSoft

  The European Commission (EC) has approved CSC's acquisition of healthcare software maker iSoft.

• June 15, 2011 15 Jun'11

  Analysts voice doubts over Blackberry Playbook price, app choice and e-mail

  As Research in Motion (RIM)'s Blackberry Playbook goes on sale in the UK, analysts remain sceptical of the prospects of RIM's first tablet among business users.

• June 13, 2011 13 Jun'11

  Citrix ‘buy your own computer’ scheme cuts costs

  A pilot scheme introduced by Citrix to enable employees to choose the computing device they use at work has been formalised after successful take-up.

• June 13, 2011 13 Jun'11

  Tesco launches Groceries Android app with voice searching feature

  Tesco has launched a free mobile application for Google's Android operating system (OS) to provide shopping and delivery services.

• June 09, 2011 09 Jun'11

  Visa predicts 20 million contactless payment cards in UK by 2012

  Visa Europe expects the number of contactless cards being used in the UK to reach 20 million by the end of 2011.

• June 08, 2011 08 Jun'11

  TfL makes real-time information available for ‘Boris Bikes’ apps

  Transport for London (TfL) has made real-time information available on its "Boris Bikes" scheme for developers seeking to create mobile apps.

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand

  IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking ...

• May 20, 2011 20 May'11

  Orange and Barclaycard launch contactless mobile payments in UK

  Orange and Barclaycard have introduced the first near-field communication (NFC) mobile payment system in the UK.