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Data centre hardware

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  How will Lenovo compete in the PC server market?

  Watch out HP, Lenovo is coming. Following the $2.3bn acquisition of IBM’s x86 business, Lenovo is expected to use aggressive pricing to win customers

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  IT departments need to address complexity, says ZK Research founder

  The founder of ZK Research says if IT departments fail to address their complexity then they are set to fall behind the times when it comes to technology

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Father of European supercomputing: Hans Meuer

  Professor Dr Hans Werner Meuer, 1936-2014

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Can elephants dance in the cloud?

  IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3bn

  Long-rumoured deal marks IBM's exit from commodity, Intel-based server market after hardware sales slump

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  IBM revenues drop 5% as hardware sales crash

  IBM has reported a small increase in its fourth quarter profit, but revenue declined due to an accelerating slump in its hardware business

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration

  Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs

  NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Intel grows datacentre business but desktop struggles

  Intel has posted fourth quarter 2013 revenue of $13.8bn, with growth in its datacentre business and a decline in desktop systems

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

  Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  IBM boosts memory writes on updated PureSystems server

  For memory-hungry applications, the new X6 server family has been designed to deliver three times the scalable memory of servers, IBM claimed

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

  New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold

  A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace