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Data centre hardware

• 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

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Facebook moves Instagram photos out of Amazon and into own datacentre

  Facebook has moved all the user photos on Instagram out of Amazon’s cloud platform into its own internal datacentre and cut costs

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects

  Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Intel unveils its most powerful chip, Xeon Phi, for supercomputers and HPC

  At ISC 2014, Intel unveiled its next-gen chip, Xeon Phi, with an array of integrated hardware capabilities for HPC and supercomputers

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers

  The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

  eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup

  Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting