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Data centre hardware

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits

  Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike

  How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Is Cisco’s ‘SDN plus’ the best software-defined networking?

  The networking giant has been accused of not embracing software-defined networking, but Cisco claims it offers better SDN than its competitors.

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

  Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• 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