News
Data centre hardware
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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June 09, 2014
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Jun'14
Smart meter IT costs set to escalate as rollout ramps up
Cost of IT is set to skyrocket as the UK’s smart meter rollout ramps up due to suppliers buying in IT consultants
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June 09, 2014
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Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms
Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
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June 05, 2014
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Jun'14
G-Cloud is lacklustre and needs transparency, says industry body CIF
Industry body blames G-Cloud's lack of transparency for poor uptake of cloud by public sector organisations
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines
VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
Busy Bees nursery virtualises desktops and servers to improve users' IT experience
UK nursery chain Busy Bees has made its IT scalable, mobile-friendly and easy to use by deploying Citrix products
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
IBM escapes SEC action on its cloud revenue reporting
US regulatory watchdog SEC will not take action against IBM following an investigation into how it reports cloud revenue
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June 03, 2014
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Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
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May 30, 2014
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May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price
Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
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May 29, 2014
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May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 29, 2014
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May'14
Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology
Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs
As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore