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Data centre hardware

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Dell: 'If ARM works and costs less, we will use it'

  Michael Dell, founder of Dell, says the company may work with Cambridge-based microprocessor company ARM in the future

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  Gas company builds datacentre in The Shard

  London’s 87-storey skyscraper, The Shard, which is home to plush restaurants, cafes and bars, also has a datacentre

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud

  Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  What’s driving OpenStack’s rise as a viable cloud alternative?

  OpenStack revenue will soar from $883m in 2014 to $3.3bn in 2018. Here are five factors that are taking the open cloud mainstream

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again

  With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  HP buys Eucalyptus as it bets on open cloud future

  HP is acquiring open source software specialist Eucalyptus that helps build private and hybrid enterprise clouds as it bets on open cloud future

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Datacentre market set to undergo dramatic change says Gartner

  Disruptive factors including cloud dominance, datacentre competition, market fragmentation and changing economic dynamics will dramatically reshape datacentres by 2016

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Capgemini and VMware collaborate for enterprise mobility

  Capgemini is teaming up with VMware to bundle its consulting and mobile services with VMware’s MDM capabilities

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  Intel launches Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors

  Intel has launched Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (codenamed Haswell-EP) designed for the software defined infrastructure

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

  A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

  EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Busting cloud myths: Four user instances where cloud computing failed

  Cloud can be beneficial but only when implemented correctly. Here's why four enterprises failed in their cloud projects

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Server OEMs at risk as white box providers target cloud datacentres

  Server ODMs are targeting datacentres operated by IT giants such Amazon and Microsoft, threatening traditional server OEMs

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Yamaha UK adopts managed private cloud for flexible IT

  Yamaha Motor’s UK arm has implemented a private cloud infrastructure and integrated a managed service system

• 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