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Data centre hardware

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Public cloud limitations drive enterprises to hybrid cloud, shows study

  Many enterprises are turning to a hybrid cloud model as the limitations of public cloud platforms become more apparent

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Security and accreditation obstacles act as G-Cloud barriers, claim SMEs

  Despite winning over 60% of G-Cloud contracts, a group of SMEs claim that security accreditation is a roadblock to winning government business

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Case study: Car supermarket deploys cloud for agility and business expansion

  With inconsistent IT infrastructure and dated hardware hindering growth and expansion plans, Motorpoint turned to private cloud

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Enterprise Ethernet services market to reach $62bn by 2018, says Ovum

  Ovum has predicted that the enterprise Ethernet market will exceed $62bn (£40bn) by 2018, growing 13.6% every year

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Google, IBM and Nvidia form datacentre consortium OpenPOWER

  Big enterprise technology stakeholders including Google, IBM and Nvidia are forming a datacentre alliance called OpenPOWER

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Luton and Dunstable Hospital finds IT efficiency with converged infrastructure

  Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has integrated IT into clinical workflows with converged infrastructure

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Ken Brill, datacentre visionary and founder of Uptime Institute passes away

  Kenneth Brill, the datacentre innovator and founder of Uptime Institute has passed away at the age of 68

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Facebook's datacentre carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions rise

  Despite its focus on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources, Facebook’s datacentre carbon footprint increased 52% in 2012

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Case study: Nexor dumps ageing proprietary operating system for open source OS

  IT services company Nexor is migrating to the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for efficiency

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Cisco reseller arrested for fraud

  Head of Network Genesis is accused of buying fake Cisco equipment and selling it on as the real thing to make a profit

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Services boost drives VMware double-digit revenue growth

  Virtualisation and IaaS provider VMware reported revenues for the second quarter of $1.24bn, an 11% increase compared to 2012