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Data centre hardware

• 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

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 17, 2013 17 Sep'13

  VCE launches datacentre, cloud products as converged infrastructure spend grows

  VCE, the joint venture company formed by Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel has launched new variations of its converged cloud suite Vblock as CI market soars

• September 13, 2013 13 Sep'13

  After virtualising IT estate, Jaguar Land Rover now eyes cloud computing

  Jaguar Land Rover's IT team takes its newly virtualised infrastructure to the next stage of IT evolution by adopting cloud-based services

• September 12, 2013 12 Sep'13

  European datacentre uptake slows in first half of 2013, but London bucks trend

  Uptake of colocation datacentre facilities in the first half of 2013 was down 31%, according to CBRE

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Where will Cisco put Whiptail flash array after $415m buy?

  Cisco has announced it will buy flash array maker Whiptail for $415m in 2014, but how will it incorporate a standalone array into its UCS server platform?