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Data centre hardware

• 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

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat

  Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Staffordshire County Council picks ANS cloud to improve public services

  Staffordshire County Council has implemented private cloud computing services as it aims to offer more public services online

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  IT failure hits NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

  IT system failure leads to hundreds of postponed NHS appointments and staff unable to access clinical and admin systems

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud by 2017, says Gartner

  About half of large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid cloud computing model in the next four years, according to Gartner

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  How Barnsley Council became a tier three datacentre

  Spending cuts, the need to deliver high-quality IT at lower costs and efficiency needs saw Barnsley Council pick a robust tier 3 datacentre facility

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Mainframe dead? IT still sees it as robust, long-term solution, shows study

  Despite suggestions of its extinction, 93% of global IT execs say mainframe remains a robust, long-term solution in their enterprise IT strategy

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Take ultimate responsibility for cloud, users warned amid Nirvanix closure

  The sudden demise of cloud provider Nirvanix must act as a wake-up call for end users in planning exit strategies when contracting cloud services

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Gmail outage: CIOs must be prepared for the unexpected

  Even class-leading cloud services can and will fail. How can IT departments build in resilience to cloud computing outages?

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Portugal Telecom opens modular datacentre to boost cloud offering

  Telecoms operator Portugal Telecom has opened a modular datacentre in Covilhã, Portugal, claiming the 75,500m2 facility is the “largest in the world”

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle Open World 2013: Oracle launches in-memory database search

  Oracle has launched an in-memory version of its database which promises 100-times faster query processing.

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Poundland outsources end-to-end datacentre management to NextiraOne

  Discount retailer Poundland has signed a multi-year contract with NextiraOne for complete datacentre infrastructure management

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  NTT increases UK colocation and cloud capacity with new datacentre

  NTT Communications is building a datacentre facility in Hemel Hempstead to meet the soaring demand for scalable colocation services

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Open source datacentre hardware helps Facebook save costs, energy

  Facebook has reduced costs and IT energy consumption since it started using open source hardware systems in its datacentres