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Data centre hardware

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

  Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help?

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

  Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project

  Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  IBM pumps $3bn in chip tech research to power future cloud needs

  IBM will invest $3bn (£1.75bn) over the next five years in the research and development of chip technology to meet cloud needs

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  CIO interview: Bill Peters, head of IT, Caterham Formula 1 Group

  Bill Peters, head of IT at Caterham, talks about the challenges of delivering IT to scientists, engineers and F1 drivers

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Physical location of data will become irrelevant by 2020, says Gartner

  The physical location of data will be irrelevant by 2020, replaced by a combination of location criteria such as legal, political and logical concerns

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  UK government recognises datacentre sector as a key economic contributor

  UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat

  Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

  Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  European Commission inches closer to standardising cloud SLA guidelines

  The European Commission has received a cloud SLA guidelines from service providers and industry bodies

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers

  IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Hybrid cloud powers business strategy for Notonthehighstreet.com

  Notonthehighstreet.com deploys a hybrid cloud and DevOps strategy to grow, innovate and respond to business needs quickly