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Data centre hardware

• 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

• 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

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  HP launches cloud and SDDC-ready ProLiant servers

  The next generation of x86 ProLiant servers are designed for the new compute era and are cloud and software-defined ready, vouches HP

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Server revenue grows for the first time since 2011

  Server shipments grew marginally in the second quarter of 2014, the first rise in nearly three years. HP led the pack, but IBM's revenues shrank

• 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