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Data centre hardware

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Microsoft overturns FBI request for enterprise user's data in Seattle court

  Microsoft successfully challenges an FBI National Security Letter requesting data about one of the company's enterprise customers

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion

  The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  HP debuts Orchestrated Datacentre to automate IT operations and delivery

  HP launches its Orchestrated Datacentre service suite to help the IT department deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection

  Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  More user control and freedom from lock-in will make cloud successful: Werner Vogels

  Giving users more control and freedom from supplier lock-in will ensure cloud’s success in Europe, says Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

  Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  ‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues

  Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

  IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

  Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

  Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg

  The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

  As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services

  HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG

  A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”