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Data centre hardware

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner

  Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  EC: Europe should become a ‘trusted cloud region’ in the post-Prism age

  European cloud providers must turn the Prism revelations into an opportunity to build trusted cloud services, says the EC

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  IBM's hardware and services businesses decline as overall business drops 4%

  IBM has reported revenues of $23.7bn for the third quarter of 2013, down 4% from the same quarter last year

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform

  Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  Datacentre traffic to triple by 2017 with cloud as biggest traffic source

  Global datacentre traffic will grow threefold to reach 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017, study finds

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Italian university reduces costs by 23% with cloud platform

  Italy’s first open university, Marconi University, has launched an IT project to host its e-learning services on a cloud platform

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Case study: Sky Broadband looks to scale with Cisco

  Sky Broadband ISP chooses Cisco’s new Network Convergence System (NCS) to meet the demand of its growing customer base

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Orange builds datacentre in Normandy to boost cloud services

  Telecoms operator Orange, has built a 16,000m² datacentre facility in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Case study: Bensons for Beds owner opts for third-party datacentre and managed services

  Owner of Bensons for Beds and Harveys furniture stores outsources IT infrastructure and adopts third-party datacentre

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre

  A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Alcatel-Lucent to axe 10,000 staff

  The networking company’s new CEO continues his cost saving plan by wiping almost 14% of its global workforce

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Hybrid IT becomes a reality as cloud goes mainstream in the UK

  Over 60% of organisations in the UK have formally adopted at least one cloud-based service

• October 07, 2013 07 Oct'13

  Driving Standards Agency updates WAN with MDNX

  The government agency has revamped its WAN solution to link its datacentre through the PSN network to its driving test centres across the UK

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  How London Met improves students’ job prospects with IBM Academic Skills Cloud

  London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Business & Law implemented IBM Academic Skills Cloud to improve the prospects of its students