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Data centre hardware

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  IBM grows security and mobile businesses, but services decline

  Following its ground-breaking alliance with Apple, IBM has reported major growth in its security and mobile businesses

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Growth in cloud and IoT lend momentum to European managed datacentres

  European datacentre services market will grow 16% up to 2018

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Facebook carbon footprint grows but energy-efficiency metric glows

  Facebook’s carbon footprint report shows energy-efficiency metric for all-important datacentres comfortably outperforms gold-standard figure and set to get better

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre

  Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services

• 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