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Data centre hardware

• August 25, 2014 25 Aug'14

  Progress on datacentre energy efficiency is slow, study shows

  Small, medium, corporate and multi-tenant datacentres are still squandering huge amounts of energy, a report has revealed

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Budgets up as virtualisation brings storage and backup headaches

  Survey finds storage budgets rising and more firms getting flash, but server virtualisation is pushing capacity needs

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  HP targets software-defined datacentre customers with new storage products

  HP launches software-oriented storage services including entry-level all-flash array and virtual storage appliance

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  London private equity firm shifts IT to the cloud to cut office move downtime

  London-based private equity fund manager SOF Investments overcame the IT nightmares of an office move by migrating IT to the cloud

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Microsoft migrates own IT to Azure as it faces datacentre closures and server EOL

  Microsoft is moving the bulk of its IT to Azure cloud as two of its datacentres face closure and thousands of servers reach end of life

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  IBM software-defined storage chosen for molecular research

  Molecular research centre DESY will use IBM software-defined storage to handle growing data load.

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

  Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Datacentres are a ‘soft target’ for environmental lobbyists, says CBRE

  Lack of clear international standards for datacentres is allowing environmental groups to criticise the sector for its energy use

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Brocade and Telefónica establish NFV benchmark

  Networking suppliers claim test results will alleviate customer concerns around performance barriers to adoption

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Half of UK IT unfamiliar with software-defined datacentres, shows study

  Software-defined datacentres may be touted as the next big thing in enterprise IT, but 50% of IT pros are unclear of its benefits, study shows

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  OpenStack market size will cross $1.7bn by 2016, says 451 Research

  Free and open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack could reach an estimated market size of $1.7bn by 2016

• 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

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  M&S deploys Microsoft Azure cloud to run festive ad campaigns

  Azure powered M&S's multi-million pound Christmas campaign Magic & Sparkle starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Facebook optimises software infrastructure for datacentre power efficiency

  Facebook has developed a system called Autoscale to optimise its software infrastructure and make its datacentre more energy efficient

• 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